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Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates:
1893-1938
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7488
Scope and Contents
1. Scrapbook inscribed `James Malcolm Palmer Douglas. This book started by his father and continued by his mother, 1948`, with pasted in letters, household accounts and bills for garden seeds, genealogical charts, invitations, menu cards, press cuttings and photographs, 1712-1948, undated.2. Plan of the Cavers Estate the property of James Douglas Esq., 19th century.3. Plan of the Cavers Estate, 19th century.4. Cavers Estate Woods, record of plantations,...
Dates:
18th century to 20th century.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly relating to his historical research.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12488
Dates:
1933-2003.
Papers, including journals, scrapbooks, press cutting books, photographs and other items of Sir Robert Heatlie Scott and Lady Rosamond Aeliz Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8181 Box 1(1)-Box 2(20)
Scope and Contents
The collection relates particularly to Sir Robert Scott's wartime imprisonment in Singapore (1942-1945), and to his period as Commissioner-General in South East Asia.
Dates:
1923-1982, undated.
Papers of and concerning Lex McLean, mostly relating to his career in entertainment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13700/1-19
Dates:
Circa 1940-1980.
Papers of John Maxwell Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14147
Content Description
John Maxwell Geddes, composer, was born in Glasgow on 26 May 1941, the son of John ('Jack') Drummond Geddes and Thomasina Geddes, née Maxwell. He grew up in the Maryhill area of Glasgow and attended Woodside Secondary School and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He also studied with the Danish pianist and composer Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) in Copenhagen.Geddes was awarded the fellowship of the RSAMD, the Creative...
Dates:
1951-2018.
Scrapbooks of Lord MacGregor Mitchell.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13603
Scope and Contents
Eleven scrapbooks, 1899-1935, concerning Lord Robert MacGregor Mitchell (1875-1938), Scottish lawyer and judge, Liberal MP for Perth and University Rector.
The scrapbooks contain newspaper cuttings, letters, photographs and miscellaneous ephemera mostly documenting Lord Mitchell’s legal and political career, as well as his personal interests in golf and cricket.
Dates:
1899-1935