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Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8695/1-336
Scope and Contents This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1786-1983.

Papers, including correspondence, photographs and printed material, collected by George Robinson for research concerning the history of police forces and their uniforms.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9284/1-46
Scope and Contents

The collection predominantly focuses on police forces in England, Wales and Scotland, but also includes details of other police forces within and foreign police forces.

Dates: 19th century-20th century.

Papers, mostly of Marshall Anderson, from the Attic Archive, Dundee.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 1-Box 51(19)
Scope and Contents The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates: Circa 1980-2010.

Papers of Aeneas Mackay.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11252
Scope and Contents

Includes book files and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1929-1945.

Papers of Alexander Galloway, concerning William Soutar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7089
Scope and Contents

Including:

six letters, 1939-1942, of William Soutar to Alexander Galloway, mainly on literary matters

two letters, 1949, Francis George Scott to Alexander Galloway, concerning Soutar

two photographs, circa 1916-1920, of Soutar

typescript account of Alexander Galloway, describing his friendship with Soutar.

Dates: circa 1916-1942.

Papers of Alexander Hart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8269
Scope and Contents

Including three letters, 1820, 1847, and a photograph.

Dates: 1820-1847 and undated.

Papers of and concerning Captain Archibald D Cochrane.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10218
Scope and Contents

Concerns his careers in the navy and politics.

Dates: circa 1899-circa 1963.

Papers of and concerning Edith Macarthur, actor, including playscripts, production photographs, press cuttings and programmes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13182/1-88
Scope and Contents

The papers span Edith Macarthur's long career on stage and screen. They include playscripts, photographs, programmes and reviews of many of the plays in which she featured, along with some scripts and other memorabilia relating to her wide range of television work.

Dates: 1942-2006.

Papers of and concerning Joseph Hislop.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7080
Scope and Contents

Including notes, sketches, typescripts of broadcast talks, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and concert and opera programmes.

Dates: 1900-1975.

Papers of and concerning Norman Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11365
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, 1917-1951 and undated, and photographs, 1943-1971 and undated, of Norman Douglas, and papers, 1954-1957, of John Davenport concerning a proposed biography of Douglas. These papers formerly formed part of the collection of John Sanderson.

Dates: 1917-1971 and undated.

Papers of and concerning Phoebe Anna Traquair, artist.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8122-8129
Scope and Contents

As well as Phoebe Anna Traquair's correspondence, the collection comprises mainly photographs and prints depicting her murals, enamel work, illuminations and bindings.

Dates: 1883-1948.

Papers of and concerning Seton Gordon.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9377
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, articles and photographs concerning natural history, piping and personal matters.

Dates: 1945-1978 and undated.

Papers of and concerning the Rev Donald Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12438
Scope and Contents Includes the following:1. Commission as honorary chaplain in the 13th Argyllshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1871.2. Letter, 26 April 1871, requesting payment of £1.5s for the above.3. Receipt, 6 May 1871, for the payment.4. Letter from the Bishop of Argyll, 26 February 1876, on the printing of the Episcopal Gaelic prayerbook, translated by Mackenzie.5. Two letters, with envelopes and one enclosure, from the Duke of Argyll, 9 May and 14...
Dates: 1871-1891, undated.

Papers of and concerning the Rev Dr Murdoch Mackenzie, missionary in China.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12056
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of letters, tributes and biographical note and photographs.

Dates: 1918-1939.

Papers of and concerning William Murray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7323
Scope and Contents

Including photographs and copies of letters concerning Murray`s military service in the First World War.

The papers were received in three installments.

Dates: 1911-1977 and undated.

Papers of, and relating to, Bob Smillie during the Spanish Civil War.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13749
Scope and Contents Papers of and relating to Bob Smillie, a volunteer with the Independent Labour Party Contingent in the Spanish Civil War, 1937-1938.Consists of two letters and a photographic print. The first letter is of Bob Smillie to his mother, written whilst serving with the Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista in Spain alongside Eric Blair (George Orwell). In it he describes the night raid on the Aragon front, in which he recounts Orwell`s role in the action. The second letter, dated 29...
Dates: 1937.

Papers of and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14111/1-19
Content Description

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, notes, photographs, press cuttings and papers of and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon. With notes of and papers collected by Ernest Eugene Laws for his proposed biography of Dillon.

Dates: 1854-1951.

Papers of and relating to Mary Slessor, missionary.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13297
Scope and Contents

Papers of Mary Slessor, missionary, including her court record book, 1905-1906, compiled during her vice-presidency over the Ikot Obong native court, a copy of a letter, 1914, and a small number of photographs, undated.

Dates: 1905-1906, 1914.

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Photographs. 411
Correspondence. 255
Letters. Correspondence. 171
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 128
Typescripts. 79
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Diaries. 65
Notebooks. 54
Notes. 54
Manuscripts. 51
Poetry. 43
Articles. 39
Minutes. Administrative records. 31
Speeches. Documents. 27
Copies. Derivative objects. 24
Financial records. 23
Photocopies. 22
Drafts. Documents. 21
Lectures. 20
Drawings. Visual works. 18
Programmes 17
Reports 17
Reports. 17
Administrative records. 15
Publications. 14
Documents. 13
Legal documents. 13
Lists. 13
Pamphlets. 13
Photograph albums. 13
Slides. Photographs. 13
Audiocassettes. 12
Literature (writings). 12
Plays. 12
Postcards. 12
Programmes. 12
Accounts. 11
Ephemera. 11
Maps. Cartographic materials. 11
Novels. 11
Printed materials. Object genre. 11
Essays. 10
Negatives. Photographs. 10
Obituaries. 10
Research notes 10
Reviews. Document genre. 10
Short stories. 10
Biographies. 9
Personal papers. 9
Sketches. 9
Albums. 8
Memorandums. 8
Scripts. Documents 8
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 7
Journals. Accounts. 7
Leaflets. 7
Periodicals. 7
Proofs. Printed matter. 7
Proofs. printed matter 7
Sketches 7
Translations. Documents. 7
Business records. 6
Family papers. 6
First World War (1914-1918). 6
Genealogies. 6
Microfilms. 6
Professional papers. 6
Reviews. Document genre 6
Transcripts 6
Videocassettes. 6
Catalogues. 5
Certificates 5
Histories. 5
Research notes. 5
Scores 5
Scrapbooks 5
Songs. Musical compositions. 5
Stats. Copies. 5
Autobiographies. 4
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 4
Certificates. 4
Commissions. Permissions. 4
Diplomas. School records. 4
Fragments. 4
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 4
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 4
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 4
Lecture notes. 4
Magazines. periodicals. 4
Memoirs. 4
Memorabilia. 4
Menus. 4
Minute books. 4
Musical compositions. 4
Newsletters. Serials. 4
Plans (orthographic projections). 4
Politics. 4
Posters. 4
Scores. 4
Scripts. Documents. 4
Sketchbooks. 4
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Language
English 361
Undetermined 56
Multiple languages 10
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 6
French 2
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Names
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 7
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 4
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 4
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 4
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 3
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Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 3
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 3
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 3
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 3
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 2
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 2
Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin') (1854-1933) 2
Edinburgh International Festival Society 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Foster, Margaret, Assistant Secretary to the Royal Scottish Academy, fl 1925-1995 2
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 2
Hart, Alexander, Bonnymuir radical, 1794-1876 2
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 2
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 2
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 2
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 2
MacGilleMhoire, Dòmhnall R (poet and shopkeeper, Scalpay, Isle of Harris) 2
MacGregor, James, Minister of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, 1832-1910: recipient 2
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 2
Oliver, Peter Roderick, Lieutenant-Colonel, mountaineer, 1907-1945 2
Saltire Society 2
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 2
Scottish Liberal Democrats, political party 2
Scottish Liberal Party, political party 2
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 2
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 2
Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 2
Thomson, David, author of "Nairn in Darkness and Light", 1914-1988 2
Wainwright, Jacob, follower of Livingstone, d 1892 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 1
Aitken, Sarah Ross, Gateway Theatre General Manager, 1905-1985 1
Allan, Roberta, missionary in Kenya, 1894-1985 1
Allan, Roberta, missionary in Kenya, 1894-1985: recipient 1
Allan, Thomas Ward, tea planter, fl. 1909-1946 1
Allan, Thomas Ward-, Superintendent of the Chulsa and Bagracote Tea Company Ltd, Dooars, India, 1888-1950 1
Anderson (family, Lerwick ) 1
Anderson, Dora, cousin of Wilhelmina Johnston Muir, author, pseudonym Agnes Neill Scott, née Anderson, fl 1948-1970 1
Anderson, Elizabeth, cousin of Wilhelmina Johnston Muir, author, pseudonym Agnes Neill Scott, née Anderson, fl 1948-1970 1
Anderson, Marshall (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee) 1
Angus (family) 1
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 1
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 1
Arbroath United Cricket Club 1
Argyll Publishing (Glendaruel) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Parachute Regiment 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Attic Archive (Dundee) 1
Attlee, Clement Richard, First Earl Attlee, prime minister, 1883–1967 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Baker, Helen Mary, missionary, 1908-1988 1
Balfour (family, of Pilrig ) 1
Balfour, Sir Thomas Graham, Knight, author, 1858-1929 1
Ballantyne (family, of Holylee ) 1
Baptist Missionary Society 1
Barlow (family) 1
Barr, Jemima, emigrant, fl. 1888-1933 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 1
Beaton, Malcolm, Victoria, Australia, shepherd, fl 1856 1
Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 1
Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 1
Bell, William, great grand-nephew of Henry Bell, builder of the "Comet", d 1978 1
Bevin, Ernest, trade unionist, politician, 1881-1951 1
Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville, journalist and author, 1851-1943 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Bone, James, journalist, 1872-1962 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Bonington, Christian John Store, Sir, Knight (mountaineer, writer and photographer) 1
Borrow, George Henry (writer and traveller) (1803-1881) 1
Bottomley, family 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Brown, George Mackay, poet and writer, 1921-1996 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
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