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Papers of William Laird McKinlay relating to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12713
Dates:
1913-1918.
Papers of William Summers Sutherland, missionary in Kalimpong.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13268/1-8
Scope and Contents
Letters, diary, notes and photographs, 1894-1920, of Dr William Summers Sutherland (1856-1924), Church of Scotland minister and missionary, and his wife, Annabella.Sutherland`s first posting as a missionary was to Darjeeling in 1879, later moving to the station at Kalimpong, India. Most of the papers in this archive relate to the two visits made by Sutherland to Bhutan. The first was in 1917, during which Sutherland was involved in the baptism of a Lepcha man. The second took...
Dates:
1890-1919, undated.
Personal and political papers of Eustace George Willis, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, with some photographs and memorabilia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13208
Scope and Contents
Personal and political papers, memorabilia and photographs, 1911–1976, of Labour politician Eustace George Willis (1903–1987). Willis was educated at the City of Norwich Secondary School. He served in the Royal Navy from 1919 until 1930. He was a bookseller and lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1932 until 1964. Willis was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North in the 1945 General Election but was defeated in 1950. He contested again Edinburgh...
Dates:
1911-1976.
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.
Photograph album, compiled by Margaret Marx, of the Scottish Women`s Ambulance Corps and Scottish Women`s Hospitals work in Romania and Russia.
File
Identifier: Acc.12090
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of documents concerning Patricia Walker (later Mrs Orr) of the Corps.
Dates:
circa 1916-1917.
Photograph album of Joseph Anderson, Keeper of the Scottish National Museum of Antiquities.
File
Identifier: MS.8831
Scope and Contents
The album contains a letter, 1879, of William B MacKenzie, Minister of Kenmore, accompanying four photographs, ?1869, depicting some of the early Celtic remains on Eilean-na-Naoimh in the Garvelloch Isles. Also enclosed is a letter, 1879, of William F Skene, the historian, and four more photographs, 1891.
Dates:
?1869-1891.
Two climbing notebooks, 1915-1922, of Joseph Alan Garrick; with letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11401
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums, 1934-1937.
Dates:
1915-1937.