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Papers of the author, Florence Marian McNeill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26194-26259
Scope and Contents

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1901-1973, undated.

Papers of the Cottam and Ironside families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6779
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

album, 1825, of Eliza Letitia Cottam

album, after 1812, of John Tatham Cottam

correspondence, 1814, 1832-1833, 1838, 1846, of Ralph Anthony Ironside, of Fennochside, including four letters of the 10th Duke of Hamilton.

Dates: circa 1812-1846.

Papers of the first Earl Haig.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3155

Papers of W Oliver Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9178
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning the Scottish Nationalist movement.

Includes an essay, press cuttings, and correspondence from amongst others, C M Grieve and Sir Compton Mackenzie.

Dates: 1930-1976.

Papers of William Summers Sutherland, missionary in Kalimpong.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13268/1-8
Scope and Contents Letters, diary, notes and photographs, 1894-1920, of Dr William Summers Sutherland (1856-1924), Church of Scotland minister and missionary, and his wife, Annabella.Sutherland`s first posting as a missionary was to Darjeeling in 1879, later moving to the station at Kalimpong, India. Most of the papers in this archive relate to the two visits made by Sutherland to Bhutan. The first was in 1917, during which Sutherland was involved in the baptism of a Lepcha man. The second took...
Dates: 1890-1919, undated.

Personal and political papers of Eustace George Willis, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, with some photographs and memorabilia.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13208
Scope and Contents Personal and political papers, memorabilia and photographs, 1911–1976, of Labour politician Eustace George Willis (1903–1987). Willis was educated at the City of Norwich Secondary School. He served in the Royal Navy from 1919 until 1930. He was a bookseller and lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1932 until 1964. Willis was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North in the 1945 General Election but was defeated in 1950. He contested again Edinburgh...
Dates: 1911-1976.

Personal papers of Robert James Dundas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13929/1-15
Scope and Contents Dundas was chaplain to the first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, Canada, and together the papers give a full account of missionary activity and relations with the Indigenous population, and of his own journey to and from North America. Dundas is particularly significant because of a collection of Tsimshian art he acquired as a result of a visit to Metlakatla, in northern British Columbia, which is now housed at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. The papers consist of eleven volumes of...
Dates: 1859-1866.

Photograph album, compiled by Margaret Marx, of the Scottish Women`s Ambulance Corps and Scottish Women`s Hospitals work in Romania and Russia.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12090
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of documents concerning Patricia Walker (later Mrs Orr) of the Corps.

Dates: circa 1916-1917.

Photograph album of Joseph Anderson, Keeper of the Scottish National Museum of Antiquities.

 File
Identifier: MS.8831
Scope and Contents

The album contains a letter, 1879, of William B MacKenzie, Minister of Kenmore, accompanying four photographs, ?1869, depicting some of the early Celtic remains on Eilean-na-Naoimh in the Garvelloch Isles. Also enclosed is a letter, 1879, of William F Skene, the historian, and four more photographs, 1891.

Dates: ?1869-1891.

Presentation photo albums and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly relating to his role as Chief Scout.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10323/1-53
Scope and Contents Presentation albums, some in special bindings, notebooks, papers, formal addresses and other documents, and a few letters, 1944-1968, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan. Almost all the material is concerned with Rowallan's period as Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire (1945-1959), and many of the items were presented to him during Commonwealth tours. Included with the collection is one certificate, 1968, presented to Gwen Mervyn, Lady Rowallan...
Dates: 1944-1968, undated.

Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates: 1931-2000

Three examples of miniature handwriting by James McKay, with related correspondence.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12866
Scope and Contents

Includes an album of sketches and postcards from the First World War.

Dates: circa 1914-1946.

Two albums, titled 'Autographs and Portraits', and labelled 1 and 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool, to whom several of the letters are addressed, from about 1820 to about 1840.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.967-968
Scope and Contents

The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.

Dates: 1820-1840.

Two climbing notebooks, 1915-1922, of Joseph Alan Garrick; with letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11401
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums, 1934-1937.

Dates: 1915-1937.

Two letters and a postcard of William Soutar to the Reverend Donald G Cubie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8698
Scope and Contents

With stamp album belonging to Soutar.

Dates: 1942-1943.

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Letters. Correspondence. 56
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Notebooks. 8
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Poetry. 6
Articles. 5
Drawings. Visual works. 4
Maps. Cartographic materials. 4
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Typescripts. 4
Autographs (manuscripts). 3
Drafts. Documents. 3
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Lectures. 3
Microfilms. 3
Novels. 3
Postcards. 3
Printed materials. Object genre. 3
Accounts. 2
Annotations. 2
Books 2
Certificates 2
Commonplace books. 2
First World War (1914-1918). 2
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Lists. 2
Memoirs. 2
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Sketches. 2
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Andes. South America. Mountain system. Longitude: -70.0000. Latitude: -2.0000. 1
Annual reports. 1
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Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 1
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Autobiographies. 1
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Dried flowers. 1
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Estate records. 1
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Smith, Chilton Lind Addison-, Writer to the Signet, 1875-1955 2
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Anderson, James, Culloden, fl 1952 1
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Blackwood, William (publisher, and founder of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine") 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Buchanites, Irvine, Scotland, religious sect 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Prime Minister) 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Cottam, Eliza Letitia, née Ironside, fl 1825-1845 1
Cottam, John Tatham, relative of Eliza L, née Ironside, fl 1812 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 1
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Douglas, family 1
Dreschfeld, Violet Jennie, 1890-1975 (sculptor) 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Durand, Sir Edward Law, 1st Baronet, colonial administrator, 1845-1920 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 1
Elliot, Sir Walter, Knight, East India Company servant and archaeologist, 1803-1887 1
Epstein, Jacob, sculptor, 1880-1959 1
Erskine, Charles, of Shielfield, Sheriff Substitute for Selkirkshire, 1771-1825 1
Fisher, James, a founder of the Secession Church, 1697-1775 1
Forrester, Charles Grant, Principal, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 1895-1980 1
Forsyth, William, man of letters, 1812-1899 1
Garrick, Joseph Alan (lecturer in Engineering and Design, Royal Technical College, Glasgow, and mountaineer) (1894-1996) 1
Goodier, Rawdon, biologist and mountaineer, b 1931 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Graham, Angus, forester and architectural historian, 1892-1980 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Gray (family, of Carntyne and Anstruther ) 1
Gray (family, of Kilmany ) 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Hamilton, Alexander Douglas-, 10th Duke of Hamilton, 1767-1852 1
Henderson, Sir David, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1862-1921 1
Huntington, Beatrice Marie Louise, 1889-1988 (artist and musician) 1
Huntington, Charlotte Macleod, 1849-1919 (née Bowles, wife of William Huntington) 1
Huntington, William, d.1930 (surgeon) 1
Inglis, Euphemia Amy Maria, pseudonym Innes Adair, d 1925 1
Ironside, Ralph Anthony, of Fennochside, fl 1814-1846 1
James Connell and Sons, Glasgow and London, fine art dealers 1
Joel, Betty, furniture and interior designer, née Stewart Lockhart, 1894-1985 1
Johnston, James Frederick Junor (Major-General) 1
Kirk, John, Minister of Barry, d 1858. 1
Lamont, Augusta, daughter of Sir James, 1st Baronet, Arctic yachtsman, d 1958: recipient 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Luffness New Golf Club, East Lothian 1
MacDonald, Alexander, Alexander (antiquary) (d 1850) 1
MacDonald, William, 1883-1960 (artist) 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Maclean, Neil, Factor to Edward Ellice, Statesman at Glenquoich, f.1841 1
Malcolm, John, Sir, Knight (Governor of Bombay) 1
Malcolm, family 1
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 1
Mare, Walter John de la, poet and author, 1873-1956 1
Marx, Margaret, Scottish Women's Ambulance Corp, fl 1916-1917 1
Matheson, Sir James, 1st Baronet, of Achany and the Lews, 1796-1878 1
McCall, Charles, painter, 1907-1989 1
McKay, James, calligrapher, 1895-1968 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
McNeill, Florence Marian, folklorist, 1885-1973 1
Men's Institute of St Ninian's (Episcopal) Cathedral, Perth 1
Munnings, Sir Alfred, Knight, artist, 1878-1959 1
Nairn, James S (cinema manager,exhibitor, filmmaker) 1
Nevinson, Henry Woodd, journalist and author, 1856-1941 1
Orr, Patricia, Scottish Women's Ambulance Corps, née Walker, fl 1916-1917 1
Pasley, Sir Charles William, Knight, General, 1780-1861 1
Percy, family 1
Petrie, William Oliver, Superintendent of Hospitals, Malawi., 1913-1998 1
Pirandello, Luigi, writer, 1867-1936 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: collector 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: recipient 1
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