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Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Description of voyage to South Africa of Trooper Charles Hunter, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
Includes transcript of description. With letter and pocket book containg active service notes.
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.
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.
Diaries, correspondence and notebooks of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet of Fasque and his family.
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.
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.
Diaries, notebooks and related papers of George Dott, Scottish nationalist.
Drafts, proofs, notes, and research materials of Tom Pow, including related correspondence and other literary papers.
Family papers of the Frasers of Belladrum, 1563-1786; including a copy of one earlier document 1203x1222 concerning Brice De Douglas, Bishop of Moray and John Bisset of Lovat.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.
Letter and two note-books of the Reverend Ralph Erskine.
Letters and commonplace book of the Gladstone of Fasque family
Letters and papers of, and concerning, General Sir George Murray.
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1810-1817, of, to, and concerning, General Sir George Murray, including two letters from Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington; with a notebook in Sir George's hand, chiefly concerning the Peninsular War (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and legal papers, 1824-1825, concerning Erskine v Murray (folio 29); (iii) Letter, 1845, of Sir George Murray probably to General Paul Anderson (folio 70).
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.
David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.
Letters, notebooks and manuscripts of and concerning Hugh Miller, geologist.
Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.
Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.
Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.
Includes related family letters and photographs.
Letters, poems, notebook and drawings of W.S. Graham.
Literary and personal papers of Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts of published and unpublished books, articles, stories and poems, with associated correspondence and some genealogical material.
Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.
Literary and personal papers of, and relating to, David Thomson.
As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.
Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.
Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.