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Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17901-17926
Scope and Contents James Augustus Grant joined the Bengal Army in 1848 and was at the siege of Multan, the battle of Gujerat, and the relief of Lucknow. From 1860 to 1863 he was seconded to the Royal Geographical Society's expedition under John Hanning Speke, when the source of the Nile was identified and Uganda and southern Sudan visited. After further service in Kashmir and secondment to Napier's Abyssinian expedition, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1868. He was awarded the Gold Medal of...
Dates: 1821-1892, undated.

Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.17929-17948

Papers of Janet Buchanan Adam Smith.

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Identifier: Acc.13861/1-134
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

Dates: 1919-1999, undated.

Papers of Miss Dora Tertia Liebenthal, musician and patroness of the arts.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21564-21577
Scope and Contents Miss Liebenthal, herself an able violinist, was best known for the lunch hour concerts she ran in the National Gallery of Scotland, from the Second World War until her death in 1970. She was particularly interested in introducing younger musicians to the public, and many of the players and singers she brought to Edinburgh went on to make distinguished careers. The papers deal with the organisation of these concerts, and include Miss Liebenthal's large correspondence with musicians and...
Dates: 1867-1970.

Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5510-5721A
Scope and Contents After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates: 1756-1832.

Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).

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Identifier: MSS.26276-26300
Scope and Contents

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1928-1966, undated.

Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.

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Identifier: MSS.5070-5138
Scope and Contents

The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.

Dates: 1583-19th century, undated.

Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26301-26462
Scope and Contents

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: 1854-1980, undated.

Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.

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Identifier: MSS.26561-26671
Scope and Contents

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1895-1983, undated.

Personal correspondence and papers of Ian C Dunn, with papers concerning gay activism and related organisations and campaign groups.

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Identifier: Acc.11905/1-163
Scope and Contents

Papers concerning personal interests (town planning, left-wing politics, Mansfield Place Church, Edinburgh Central Times) and gay rights activism – especially the activities of the Scottish Minorities Group, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland.

Dates: 1961-1998, undated.

Personal correspondence and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly concerning the Scout movement and other public activities; with papers relating to military service and estate papers.

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Identifier: Acc.6688/1-47
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence and papers, 1929-68, with some estate papers, 1845-1967, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, MC KBE KT (1875-1977), 2nd Baron Rowallan, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth (1945-1959), and Governor of Tasmania (1959-1963). The correspondence is concerned mainly with Rowallan's activities in the Scout movement, but includes also some papers relating to his military service in both World Wars, and to his farming activities in Ayrshire. For further biographical details...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1845-1968, undated.

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African Lake Company Limited, logistics and shipping 1
Brander, Michael (writer) 1
Bruce, Alexander Low, Deputy-Chairman of William Younger and Company, brewers, 1839-1893 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Chalmers, Esther Barbara (daughter of Sir David Patrick, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast) 1
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Chalmers, Sir David Patrick, Knight, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast, d 1899 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Dejardin, Lucie, socialist, 1875-1945 1
Dunn, Ian Campbell, lesbian and gay rights campaigner, townplanner, 1943-1998 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Graham, John Anderson, missionary at Kalimpong, 1861-1942 1
Graham, Katherine (missionary, nee McConachie) 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Imperial British East Africa Company, land manangement company 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Lorimer, James, Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh, 1818-1890 1
Lorimer, John Henry, 1856-1936 (painter) 1
Lorimer, family, of Kellie 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macdonald, John (Lieutenant-Colonel, military engineer, son of Flora Macdonald) 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Morrison, Hubert Peter, President of Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, publisher, d 1971 1
Purdie, James (superintendent of Dr Graham's Homes, Kalimpong) 1
Renton, Ian Paterson (Minister of St Colm's, Edinburgh) 1
Scottish Patriots, cross-party campaigning organisation 1
Smith, Janet Buchanan Adam- (author and journalist) (1905-1999) 1
Thomas Nelson and Sons (publisher) 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 1
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000. 1
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 1
Wordie, Sir James Mann, Knight, Master of St John's College, Cambridge, 1889-1962 1
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