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Papers of the Mure of Caldwell and Bloxham families.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13678/1-6
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of letters and notes on the genealogy of the Mure of Caldwell family, Ayrshire and their relatives the Bloxham family, Banbury, diaries of Catherine Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succ.1776) and legal documents of and relating to the Mures of Caldwell and the Bloxhams.

Dates: 1496-1907

Papers of the poet, Helen Cruickshank (1886-1975).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26705-26712
Scope and Contents

Born in Angus, Helen Cruickshank worked in the Civil Service until her retirement in 1944. She became the secretary of the Scottish centre of the International PEN Club, and included many literary figures among her friends. Her autobiography, ‘Octobiography’ (Montrose, 1976), was published posthumously.

Dates: 1909-1976, undated.

Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents

Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.

Dates: 1946-1982.

Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9251
Scope and Contents

Includes sermons, lectures, notes for published works, correspondence, pastoral notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 1926-1985.

Papers of the Stewart and Christie families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5058
Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Papers of Verney Lovett Cameron.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10120/1-21
Scope and Contents

Includes journals, notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: 1872-1892.

Papers of Wendy Wood.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9915
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.

Dates: circa 1930-1980.

Papers of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13593
Scope and Contents Papers, c.1910-1970s, of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.Werner Bienert was born in Thale Am Harz, Germany in1902 to a sawmill owner. His early life until 1922 was spent working in the timber trade in Germany and Holland before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1924 on a year’s visa. There he met his future wife, Rose Tinney, with whom he had three children. They were married in 1925 before Bienert was forced to move back to Germany, settling in Hamburg. The...
Dates: c.1903-1979

Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1818-2011, undated.

Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12578/1-45
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the life and work of the novelist, poet and writer Naomi Mitchison. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, press cuttings, family papers and photographs.Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, née Haldane, was born in Edinburgh in 1897. She was the youngest child of Louisa Kathleen Haldane, née Trotter, and John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Her elder brother was the biologist J. B. S. 'Jack' Haldane (1892–1964).Naomi attended the Dragon School...
Dates: 1836-2002

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.

Personal papers of William Crosbie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13367
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1933-1972, of the artist William Crosbie (1915-1999), with related printed material, circa 1943-1990. This small collection of material was apparently cleared from his studio at 12 Ruskin Lane, Glasgow, many years after his death.

Dates: 1933-1972.

Political and personal correspondence and papers of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, including some papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11884/1-359
Scope and Contents These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates: Circa 1911-circa 1998.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Scientific papers, journals and correspondence of Alexander Turnbull Christie (died 1832), assistant surgeon in the East India Company.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9490-9497
Scope and Contents

In 1828 Alexander Turnbull Christie returned to Scotland and studied geology, meteorology, and other branches of science in Edinburgh and on the Continent. In 1830 he was appointed geological surveyor on the Madras establishment, but did not return to India until the following year. He contributed a number of papers to the ‘Edinburgh new philosophical journal’.

Dates: 1821-1838, undated.

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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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