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Letters and parts of letters of celebrities of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pasted in two albums.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.740-741
Scope and Contents

The letters are unconnected except some addressed to the editor of 'Good Words' and others addressed to Professor George Buchanan, Glasgow.

Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Letters and photograph album of John Lawson Welch.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8757
Scope and Contents

Written while in Pauper Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, concerning family and professional matters, and on philately.

Includes letters to his sister, son and brother, the Reverend Prof Adam C Welch.

Dates: 1888-1897.

Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11800
Scope and Contents

Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.

Dates: circa 1800-1965.

Letters to Sir Philip and Lady Trotter of Mainhouse.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9998
Scope and Contents

Letters from family friends in the Borders, and from army colleagues of Sir Philip, including several letters from South Africa.

Dates: Undated

Microfilm of photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1577
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Album, 1917, undated, of photographs of Blackpool, the voyage to South Africa with the RAMC, and wartime scenes in Cape Town and Durban (Acc.12016/1); Album, 1919-1922, of mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, and in Britain (Acc.12016/5);Album entitled ‘Chogoria – the early days. The start to 12 October 1922’ (Acc.12016/6);Album entitled ‘Chogoria early days, 1922-1930’ (Acc.12016/7); Album...
Dates: [1917-1996.]

Miscellaneous autograph letters, official documents, signatures, etc., pasted into an album.

 File
Identifier: MS.3873
Scope and Contents

There are a number of letters to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767), which relate largely to his antiquarian interests. Most of the other letters are also of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the writers include noblemen, churchmen, public servants, and prominent literary figures.

Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

Papers, 1909-1919, concerning the Men`s Institute of St Ninian`s (Episcopal) Cathedral, Perth.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7526
Scope and Contents

Including minute book, account book and letters.

With seven letters, 1855, 1883-1888, to Charles Wordsworth.

Dates: 1855-1919.

Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates: 1902-1970.

Papers and correspondence of literary figures.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8693
Scope and Contents

Includes:

inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University

"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham

"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson

With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).

Dates: 1890-1942.

Papers and letters of George Wade.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6666/1-3
Scope and Contents

Including:

circa 50 letters and other documents, 1736-1737, concerning the Porteous Riots and subsequent events, compiled by Wade

circa 200 letters to and copies of letters, 1745-1746, of Wade, concerning the Jacobite Rising.

Dates: 1736-1737, 1745-1746.

Papers concerning the military service of Chilton Lind Addison-Smith.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6030
Scope and Contents

Concerning military service while serving with the 17th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion, 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade and 2nd Battalion Sherwood Forresters, 71st Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force, France.

Dates: 1916-1917.

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

Papers of Richard Dark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17
Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

Papers of Sir Robert H Scott.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.11331
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter to his mother-in-law, 1942, photograph albums, 1924-1934, records of his Lord Lieutenancy of Peebles-shire/Tweeddale, 1968-1980, and an annotated copy of "Intisari" (Research Journal of Wider Malaysia).

Dates: circa 1924-1980.

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.

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Albums. 38
Photograph albums. 14
Photographs. 11
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Diaries. 4
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Drawings. Visual works. 4
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Correspondence. 3
Microfilms. 3
Annotations. 2
Articles. 2
Autographs (manuscripts). 2
Certificates 2
First World War (1914-1918). 2
Lectures. 2
Minute books. 2
Notebooks. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Signatures. Names. 2
Sketches. 2
Transcripts. 2
Typescripts. 2
Account books. 1
Bindings. Binding components. 1
Biographies. 1
Books 1
British Columbia. North and Central America - Canada. Province. Longitude: -125.0000 . Latitude: 55.0000 . 1
Canada. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -96.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 1
Caricatures. 1
Certificates. 1
Course work. 1
Dried flowers. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Ephemera. 1
Essays. 1
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 1
Genealogies. 1
Horoscopes. 1
Indexes. Reference sources. 1
Inscriptions. 1
Journals. Periodicals. 1
Kelso. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.4167. Latitude: 53.6000. 1
Kuala Lumpur. Asia - Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur. Inhabited place. Longitude: 101.7000. Latitude: 3.1667. 1
Landscapes. Representations. 1
Leaflets. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Memorabilia. 1
Memorandums. Legal documents. 1
Menus. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Novels. 1
Pages. 1
Pamphlets. 1
Pencil drawings. 1
Photocopies. 1
Plans (orthographic projections). 1
Postage stamps. 1
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Prints. Visual works. 1
Prisoners of War. 1
Proofs. Printed matter. 1
Prospectuses 1
Reminiscences. 1
Reports 1
Romania. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 25.0000. Latitude: 46.0000. 1
Russia. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 47.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 1
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Scrapbooks 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Signatures. Names 1
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South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 1
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Travel journals. 1
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Smith, Chilton Lind Addison-, Writer to the Signet, 1875-1955 2
Anderson, James, Culloden, fl 1952 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
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Blackwood, William (publisher, and founder of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine") 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 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
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
Douglas, family 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 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
Erskine, Charles, of Shielfield, Sheriff Substitute for Selkirkshire, 1771-1825 1
Fisher, James, a founder of the Secession Church, 1697-1775 1
Garrick, Joseph Alan (lecturer in Engineering and Design, Royal Technical College, Glasgow, and mountaineer) (1894-1996) 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Inglis, Euphemia Amy Maria, pseudonym Innes Adair, d 1925 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
Luffness New Golf Club, East Lothian 1
MacDonald, Alexander, Alexander (antiquary) (d 1850) 1
Maclean, Neil, Factor to Edward Ellice, Statesman at Glenquoich, f.1841 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
Men's Institute of St Ninian's (Episcopal) Cathedral, Perth 1
Nevinson, Henry Woodd, journalist and author, 1856-1941 1
Orr, Patricia, Scottish Women's Ambulance Corps, née Walker, fl 1916-1917 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
Ritchie, James Spence, former keeper of manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, Stepfather of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston. 1
Ritchie, Margaret Macrae Ward (née Junor, then Johnston, mother of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston) 1
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, poet, 1828-1882 1
Runciman, James Cochran Stevenson (Steven), Sir, Knight (historian) (1903-2000) 1
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 1
Russell, Arthur Walker, WS, Vice President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, 1873-1967 1
Scott, Sir Robert Heatlie, Knight, Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale (formerly of Peebleshire), 1905-1982 1
Scott, family, of Raeburn 1
Scottish Women's Ambulance Corp 1
Scottish Women's Hospitals 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
Sturgis, Tim, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, fl.2014-2015: author 1
Trotter, Eliza Sophia, wife of Sir Philip, of Mainhouse, Colonel, née Scott Plummer, d 1926: recipient 1
Trotter, Sir Philip, Knight, of Mainhouse, Colonel, 1844-1918: recipient 1
University of Edinburgh 1
University of St Andrews 1
Wade, George, Field-Marshal, 1673-1748 1
Wade, George, Field-Marshal, 1673-1748. 1
Welch, Adam Cleghorn, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, New College, Edinburgh, 1864-1943: recipient 1
Welch, John Lawson, Pauper Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, fl 1888-1897 1
Wemyss, Earl of (succ.1883), 1818-1914 1
Willis, Eustace George, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, 1903-1987 1
Wordsworth, Charles, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1806-1892: recipient 1
Wordsworth, William (English poet and garden designer) (1770-1850) 1
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