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Papers of John Maclean, Clydeside agitator, 1909-1923; with material concerning him, 1924-1966.
Papers of Sir James Stewart Lockhart, including papers concerning his daughter Mary (Mrs Betty Joel).
Papers of the author, Florence Marian McNeill.
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.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh, which existed from 1903 to 1947, its object being the collection of Scottish ballads, popular rhymes, proverbs, and the like.
Papers of the Scottish Campaign for Resistance of the Atomic Menace (SCRAM).
Includes research files, correspondence, reports and press cuttings.
Papers of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association.
‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.
Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Records of the Amalgamated Slaters` Society of Scotland.
Records of the National Party of Scotland, Scottish Convention, Scottish Covenant Association and Scottish National Party.
Minutes, letters and papers, with miscellaneous printed political leaflets and ephemera retained with the collection, from the Edinburgh Headquarters of the Scottish National Party. Included are records of other organizations of the national movement.
Records of the North East Fife Conservative and Unionist Association.
Including records of predecessor bodies and associated local Conservative and Unionist Associations.
Scrapbooks of Arthur Maurice Roth, schoolboy in Callander, containing daily observations on the progress of the Second World War.
The scrapbooks cover the period from December 1943 to August 1945. They consist of 36 notebooks in which Roth has written short notes on the progress of the war, illustrated with press cuttings he had collected.
Although it is not clear why Roth began to keep a daily record of events occurring during the war, he had an interest in military history, and keeping a record of the war on a daily basis helped to develop his knowledge of geography.
Signed and annotated copies of works by Professor John Dover Wilson, together with copies of works on Shakespearean scholarship (some annotated by Wilson) presented to him.
"The Bibliography of Robert Burns, with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes etc" (Kilmarnock, 1881) with inserted press cuttings on Burns.
Two commonplace books of George Glen Napier.
Containing quotations from Tennyson`s "In Memorium", press cuttings and commentaries.