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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.

Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).

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Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem. (ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70); (iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates: [Circa1940]-1970, undated.

Small collections and single papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.2980

Typed copies of newspaper articles and correspondence relating to John Knox, from the scrap-book of David Hay Fleming.

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Identifier: MS.2932
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include David Hay Fleming himself, Hume Brown, Andrew Lang, and James King Hewison.

Dates: 1890-1905.

Typescript, 1920, of ‘The Gordons of Craichlaw’ by William MacMath, with corrections and prefatory notes by the author.

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Identifier: MS.5198
Scope and Contents

A letter about the work from E A Hornel, 1921, and a copy of Macmath's reply have been inserted (folio i).

Dates: 1920-1921.

Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.

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Identifier: MS.8028
Scope and Contents

The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.

The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.

Dates: 1798-1827, undated.

Typescript copies of two letters of J Scott.

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Identifier: Acc.9590
Scope and Contents

Describing in detail journeys in Tanzania and Kenya.

Dates: 1955-1959.

Typescript copy of an incomplete diary of Charles McKelvie, Isca, near Campbeltown.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6937
Scope and Contents

Describing journey on S S Dunedin, with his sister, as an emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand.

Dates: 1879.

Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11745
Scope and Contents

The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.

Dates: 1943-1955 and undated.

Typescript copy of diary of Captain D P Apthorp, Royal Norfolk Regiment.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9676
Scope and Contents

Concerns time as prisoner of war of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Dates: 1942-1945.

Typescript copy of letter, 1857, of David Livingstone.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11447
Scope and Contents

Livingstone thanks the unidentified recipient for her gifts for his work.

Dates: 1857.

Typescript copy of letter of John M Cockburn.

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Identifier: Acc.8377
Scope and Contents

Describing trench warfare and the Battle of Festubert.

Dates: 1915.

Typescript copy of report, 1920, of expedition of Alexander M Kellas to ascend Kamet in the Himalayas.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9603
Scope and Contents

With presentation note and letter, 1921, to Dr Ernest L Kennaway.

Dates: 1920-1921

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Letters. Correspondence. 32
Manuscripts. 23
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India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
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Names
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Baird, John Lawrence, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, 1874-1941 1
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Bogie, James, Kirkcaldy, fl 1939-1980 1
Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich, playwright, 1898-1956 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Service, public service broadcaster 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 1
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 1
Burgess, Alexander, author of "Passport from China", fl 1900-1956 1
Cargill, Dame Helen Wilson, Air Commandant, 1896-1969 1
Cockburn, John M, Sergeant, 23rd London Regiment, fl 1915 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Cormack, William S, Principal, Stow College School of Engineering, Glasgow, fl 1945 1
Craik, James Bowstead, Writer to the Signet, 1874-1957 1
Dallas, family, Nairn 1
Eagle, Raymond, biographer of Seton Gordon, fl 1989 1
Ferrerio, Giovanni, philosopher, poet, historian, 1502-1579 1
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, patriot, ? 1653-1716. 1
Forrester, family 1
Gordon, J M, author of "Fanny Campbell", fl 1900-1998 1
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Hermes, Gertrude Anna Bertha, printmaker, sculptor, and designer, 1901-1983 1
Imperial Japanese Army 1
Jenkins, John Robin, novelist, 1912-2005 1
Jenkins, Roy Harris, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, politician and author, 1920-2003 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kellas, Alexander Mitchell, chemist and mountaineer, 1868-1921 1
Kennaway, Sir Ernest Laurence, Knight, pathologist, 1881-1958: recipient 1
Kinross, John Blythe, financier, 1904-1989 1
Laing, Nissa, Edinburgh, fl 1989: editor 1
Lanarkshire Miners' County Union, 1896-1920 1
Lanarkshire Mineworkers' Union, 1920-1945 1
Law, Thomas Sturdy, poet, 1916-1997 1
Lindsay, Maurice (poet and writer) 1
Liston, Robert, Sir, Knight (diplomat) 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 1
Macarthur, family, Nairn, Scotland, Manitoba, Canada 1
Mackie, Albert David, poet, 1904-1985 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Macrae, Jean R, St Andrews, fl 1981 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McKelvie, Charles, emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand, fl 1879 1
Milton, Nan, Avonbridge, fl 1965 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish Area, Lanarkshire District, 1945- 1
Neilson, Ian B C, soldier, Boer War, fl 1900-1947 1
Pemberton, family, County Durham 1
Purves, David, poet and playwright, b 1924 1
Ross, Alexander, divine, 1591-1654 1
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh 1
Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 1
Scott, J, Edinburgh, fl 1955-1988 1
Sibthorp, John, botanist, 1758-1796: recipient 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Southwell, Robert, Saint, writer, 1561-1595 1
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000. 1
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 1
Wallace, family, Nairn 1
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