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The Scottish Library Association (SLA) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) Archive.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13656/1-129
Scope and Contents The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates: 1912-2006.

Three letters of George Tancred of Weens tipped into a copy of his ‘Rulewater and its people’ (Edinburgh, 1907), presented by him to J Lindsay Hilson.

 File
Identifier: MS.9044
Scope and Contents

The letters are tipped in on guards inside the front cover. On one of the letters is pasted a signed photograph of George Tancred of Weens.

There is a presentation note, 1907, on the flyleaf of the book.

Tipped in inside the back cover is a cutting from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, dated 11 January 1908, containing a review of the book.

Dates: 1907-1909.

Two letters of John Salmond from New Zealand on matters relating to emigration and settlement of the Dunedin and Otago areas.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12825
Scope and Contents

Includes transcriptions, supporting documentation and copies of family photographs.

Dates: 1850-1865.

‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.

 File
Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates: 1909.

Typescript biography concerning Helen Baker, missionary in Rajputana, by Margaret Foster.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10446
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and photographs.

Dates: 20th century.

Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9266
Scope and Contents

Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.

Dates: 1842-1859.

Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.

 File
Identifier: MS.3017
Scope and Contents The letters deal almost entirely with the affairs of the Gibson family and their relations (Balfours, etc.), but contain allusions to the state of trade and building in Edinburgh due to the war (folios 6, 10, 19). At folio 40a is a letter, 1794, of another son, John, merchant in Danzig, to his mother, describing the Polish rising of that year. The letters are illustrated by modern photographs of Pilrig House, Peggie's Mill at Cramond, family portraits, and Danzig. The volume containing them...
Dates: 1795-1797.

Typescript of Hamish Brown`s "Get Your Knees Brown, Brown: National Service Letters Egypt, Kenya, 1953-1955".

 File
Identifier: Acc.12688
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of expeditions in Scotland by pupils of Braehead School, 1950s.

Dates: circa 1950-1959, circa 2005.

Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8789
Scope and Contents

Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.

Dates: [Circa 1932.]

Typescript translation of questions on Buddhism submitted to the Dalai Lama by the Reverend Even Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6187
Scope and Contents

With photograph, circa 1912, of the Dalai Lama.

Dates: 1912.

Typescripts, manuscripts, proofs, research notes and correspondence of David Thomson, author and radio producer.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10129/1-179
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.

Dates: [1923]-1988.

Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.

 File
Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates: 1911-1912.

War correspondence between Lawrence Burness and his parents.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9088
Scope and Contents

Includes extracts of letters, parted into three volumes, and photographs, 1942, of people and places mainly in Burma.

Dates: 1940-1947.

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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
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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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