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Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates: 1896-2006.

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13065/1-76
Scope and Contents The collection reflects Sir Lewis Robertson`s personal and business activities during the later years of his life. The correspondence files, 2003-2008, and letter books, 2004-2008, show his active involvement in many charitable and cultural bodies until his death in November 2008. Of particular interest are several volumes of speeches and interviews, 1989-2003, and three diaries, 1978-1980, dated during his time as Director of the Scottish Development Agency. Sir Lewis Robertson kept an...
Dates: Circa 1940-2008.

Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13436
Scope and Contents

The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.

Dates: 1798-1854, undated

Correspondence, estate, financial, and legal papers of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19711-19733
Scope and Contents

The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.

Dates: 1685-1890, undated.

Correspondence, four diaries, two photograph albums and other papers of Rawdon Goodier.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11178
Scope and Contents

Concerns climbing in the UK, the Alps and the Andes.

Dates: circa 1950-1983.

Correspondence of the family of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8508/1-57
Scope and Contents

Papers, 19th-20th century, relating to the family of the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll especially the circle of Joan Glassel, second wife of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, and her children and grandchildren.

Dates: 1778-1942.

Correspondence, reports, lectures and other professional papers of James R Erskine-Murray, electrical engineer and inventor; with some notebooks, diaries and other papers of members of his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5900/1-76
Scope and Contents

Including lecture notebooks, copies of lectures and reports, and drafts of articles.

Dates: 1745-1961.

Correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark, mostly relating to his work as a civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12598/1-56
Scope and Contents

The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.

Dates: [1923]-2005, undated.

Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14200-14219
Scope and Contents

James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.

Dates: 1832-1865, undated.

Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9585
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1902, of Cora Scott-Moncrieff to Ethel Dalziel concerning Sir Joseph Nöel Paton, and genealogical table, undated, of the Hanna and Dalziel families.

Dates: 1858-1902 and undated.

Diaries and correspondence of David Morrison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6374
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn and Fionn MacColla.

Dates: 1966-1974.

Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11021/1-223
Scope and Contents Correspondence, accounts, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, 1861-1993, largely of and relating to Barberfield Farm, near Haddington, East Lothian. With personal correspondence, accounts, and photographs of Charles Blythe, Farmer, and his family, 1861-1993.Charles Blythe became tenant of Barberfield Farm in 1904 in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Millar, Draper, Tranent. In 1928, Blythe took on the lease of the neighbouring Heatheryhall Farm. Previously, he had been...
Dates: 1859-1993.

Diaries, letters and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1989, of and relating to John Armstrong.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13315
Scope and Contents

John Armstrong studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was a contemporary of Eduardo Paolozzi who is mentioned in his diaries. After leaving college he worked as an artist and displays manager, then went on to work for the DHSS, Register Generals Office and elsewhere in Edinburgh. He later ran his own business. He continued painting throughout his life and also wrote fiction inspired by his bohemian lifestyle.

Dates: 1944-1989.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Diaries of Nancy Angus, with some related personal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12365/1-41
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the diaries of Nancy W Angus, the daughter of David Angus, civil engineer. They give a view first of an adolescent’s life in Chile, then of a typist’s in London, then of a Voluntary Aid Detachment, and on through her work for the War Graves Commission, and then at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Dates: 1907-1960.

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Diaries. 229
Correspondence. 162
Letters. Correspondence. 73
Photographs. 63
Notebooks. 46
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Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 44
Typescripts. 42
Notes. 41
Manuscripts. 40
Poetry. 36
Articles. 31
Copies. Derivative objects. 24
Speeches. Documents. 18
Drafts. Documents. 16
Lectures. 16
Accounts. 15
Microfilms. 13
Financial records. 12
Legal documents. 12
Autobiographies. 11
Plays. 11
Documents. 10
Maps. Cartographic materials. 10
Publications. 10
Short stories. 10
Photograph albums. 9
Photocopies. 8
Printed materials. Object genre. 8
Sketches. 8
Novels. 7
Reports 7
Reports. 7
Travel journals. 7
Biographies. 6
Drawings. Visual works. 6
Family papers. 6
Sermons 6
Transcripts 6
Account books. 5
Excerpts. 5
Letter books. 5
Lists. 5
Memorandums. 5
Scripts. Documents 5
Address books. Reference sources. 4
Albums. 4
Certificates 4
Commonplace books. 4
Ephemera. 4
Essays. 4
Estate records. 4
Genealogies. 4
Literature (writings). 4
Minutes. Administrative records. 4
Mountaineering. 4
Passports. 4
Personal papers. 4
Professional papers. 4
Programmes. 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Second World War (1939-1945). 4
Songs. Musical compositions. 4
Books 3
Calculations. 3
Catalogues. 3
Certificates. 3
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 3
Inventories. 3
Memoirs. 3
Memoranda Book. 3
Negatives. Photographs. 3
Obituaries. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Scrapbooks 3
Testimonials. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Travel journals 3
Watercolours. Paintings. 3
Administrative records. 2
Alps (mountain system). Europe. Longitude: 010 00 00 E. Latitude: 46 25 00 N. 2
Anecdotes. 2
Annotations. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 2
Authors 2
Bankbooks. 2
Business records. 2
Cashbooks. 2
Claims. Legal documents. 2
Contracts. Agreements. 2
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Exhibition catalogues. 2
Extracts. 2
Fiction. 2
Fragments. 2
Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 2
Histories. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 2
Invitations. 2
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Language
English 161
Undetermined 69
German 2
Multiple languages 2
Swedish 1
 
Names
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 4
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 2
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 2
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
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Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 2
Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin') (1854-1933) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Smith, Lilian Adam, 1866-1949 (née Buchanan, wife of Sir George, Knight) 2
Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 2
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Baume, Louis Charles, mountaineer, 1919-1993 1
Bienert, Werner, German Language Teacher, 1902-1988 1
Blackwood, Algernon Henry, writer of supernatural fiction, 1869-1951 1
Blackwood, William, William (publisher) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bloxham, family, Banbury 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Bonar, James, Solicitor of Excise, 1757-1821 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Brocklebank, Thomas Anthony, mountaineer and teacher, 1908-1984 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Thomas Graham, neurophysiologist and mountaineer, 1882-1965 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Bunney, Herrick, 1915-1997 (organist of St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh) 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Cairns, family, Edinburgh 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Calderwood, Anna, sister of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham, fl 1839 1
Cameron, Verney Lovett, explorer, 1844-1894 1
Campbell (family, of Argyll) 1
Campbell family, of Inverneill 1
Campbell, George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll, politician and scientist, 1823-1900 1
Campbell, John Douglas Edward Henry, 7th Duke of Argyll, 1777-1847 1
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996 1
Campbell, Marion, wife of John, of Kilberry, née Durand, b 1919 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866. 1
Cathcart, Hon. Sir George, Knight, Major-General, 1794-1854 1
Cathcart, family, of Cathcart, Earls Cathcart 1
Church of Scotland 1
Clark, Alastair Trevor (colonial civil servant, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Solomon Islands) 1
Columbine, Edward Henry, Royal Navy, Governor of Sierra Leone, 1763-1811 1
Cram, Alastair, Lawyer and Judge in Kenya, 1909-1994 1
Crosbie, Hugh Provan, novelist, pseudonym 'John Carrick', 1912-2003 1
Crosbie, William, artist, 1915-1999 1
Crum, F M, Major, fl 1893-1955 1
Cuthbert, Jane, Ayr, née Robertson, fl 1869-1926 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
Dalziel, Ethel, kinswoman of John, Writer to the Signet, fl 1902: recipient 1
Dalziel, John, Writer to the Signet, 1838-1883 1
Dalziel, family 1
Darling, Frank Moss Fraser, Sir, Knight (ecologist) 1
Davenport, John, writer, fl 1954-1957 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Dott, Eric F, physician and conscientious objector, 1898-1999: recipient 1
Dott, George, Scottish Nationalist, fl 1909-1959 1
Dott, Peter McOmish, Edinburgh, art dealer, 1856-c 1935 1
Douglas, George Norman, travel writer, 1868-1952 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Drew, Charles Smith, 1893-1970 1
Drew, Lilian Mary Buchanan, 1894-1980 (née Adam Smith, wife of Charles S. Drew) 1
Dunbar, John Telfer, costume historian, 1912-2002 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fergusson , Bernard Edward, Baron Ballantrae of Auchairne and the Bay of Islands (Governor General of New Zealand) 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Forrester, Charles Grant, Principal, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 1895-1980 1
Free Church of Scotland 1
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gilmour, Thomas Lennox, journalist and barrister, 1859-1936 1
Gladstone, Thomas, 2nd Bart., of Fasque, 1804-1889 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
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