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Letters, 1841-1851, and photographic copies thereof, of the Earl of Crawford, styled Lord Lindsay, to James Dennistoun, and letters of Sir Coutts Lindsay and John Murray; with letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5526/1-4
Scope and Contents
With photographs of Dennistoun`s letters, and 12 letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.
Dates:
1841-1851, 1951-1954.
Letters, photographs and papers, 1815-1936, 1972, and undated, of or concerning the Dallas and Macarthur families of Nairn, and relating chiefly to the activities of the brothers Macarthur in Quebec, Ontario, Iowa and Manitoba from 1861.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.277- is now Acc.10623.
Dates:
1815-1936, 1972.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Series
Identifier: Dep.363
Dates:
Circa 1950-1983.
Manuscript material of David Livingstone, additional to MSS.10707-10756: Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20314-20316
Dates:
1849-1873.
Microfilm and photographic slide copies of the correspondence, papers and drawings of James Bruce of Kinnaird.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4490/1-12
Dates:
1757-1854, undated.
Microfilm of papers of Sir John Kirk (1832-1922) from the National Library of Scotland (Adam Matthew Publications).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1724-1733
Dates:
[?1856-?1972.]
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Papers of James W S Marr.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5110
Scope and Contents
Including letters and copies of letters, press cuttings and photographs.
Dates:
1929-1937.
Papers of William Bell concerning his research on Henry Bell.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.278
Dates:
1899-1978.
Photograph of a drawing of a passage boat proposed for the Forth and Clyde Canal, 1816, reproduced from a facsimile, 1907.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4010
Dates:
1907.
Photograph of copies, in the Archives Nationales, Paris, of public notarial instruments recording (i) the homage, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 December 1292, and, (ii) the fealty, Norham Castle, 20 November 1292, done by John Balliol to Edward I for the Kingdom of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Ch.664
Dates:
1292.
Photographs and typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson for the centenary edition of Scott's letters.
File
Identifier: MS.1846
Scope and Contents
Some of the letters have not been printed.
At the end are catalogues of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and other correspondents, 1927, and to his brother Thomas and the latter's wife, undated.
Dates:
1796-1828, 1927, undated.
Photographs of entries in records relating to Marguerite Charpentier, afterwards wife of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Abbotsford.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.662-663
Dates:
1770, 1787.
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
Item
Identifier: MS.1812
Scope and Contents
From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.
Dates:
1819-1821.
Political correspondence of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, mainly as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West, 1974-1997, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians, 1999-2007.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.252
Dates:
1972-2010.
Prints from original photographs of events in Russia, featuring Zinoviev and Béla Kun.
File
Identifier: Acc.5435
Scope and Contents
Prints from original photographs of political events in Soviet Russia; many feature Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, and the Hungarian communist leader Bela Kun; with a translation of the Russian comments on the verso of the original photographs, and xerox copies of these explanations.
Dates:
Circa 1920.
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
Single letters 1906, 1908, of Joseph and Else Joachim, and a photograph (with a reduced copy) of Joseph Joachim, 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.22163
Dates:
1903-1908.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Series
Identifier: MS.5406
Dates:
1810-1897.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.