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Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.

With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11021/1-223
Scope and Contents Correspondence, accounts, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, 1861-1993, largely of and relating to Barberfield Farm, near Haddington, East Lothian. With personal correspondence, accounts, and photographs of Charles Blythe, Farmer, and his family, 1861-1993.Charles Blythe became tenant of Barberfield Farm in 1904 in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Millar, Draper, Tranent. In 1928, Blythe took on the lease of the neighbouring Heatheryhall Farm. Previously, he had been...
Dates: 1859-1993.

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.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Diaries of Walter Robertson Cuthbert.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11914
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters to Cuthbert from his mother and two photographs from World War I.

Dates: 1912-1932.

Diary of Daniel Murray Smillie, officer in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW1.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13748
Scope and Contents Papers of Daniel Murray Smillie, written whilst serving as an officer with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War. The son of Robert Smillie, trade unionist and politician, Daniel Murray Smillie appears to have enlisted in 1915. The papers include a diary, 30 August to 17 November 1916, which gives an insight into the work of the RAVC at the veterinary hospital at Bulford, covering such subjects as the treatment of horses. More general themes are also covered...
Dates: 1916-1919.

Documents relating to the military tribunal of Alexander Frame Smillie, conscientious objector during WWI.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13747
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the military tribunal of Alexander Frame Smillie, and his imprisonment at Wormwood Scrubs as a conscientious objector during the First World War, 1918.The papers include letters and statements detailing the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Alexander (Alex) Smillie. Alexander was the son of Robert Smillie, trade unionist and politician who became President of the National Council Against Conscription when it was formed in 1915. A letter from Robert to Alexander...
Dates: 1918.

Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11418
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine

Dates: circa 1952-1992.

Exhibits, photographs and caption descriptions from an historical exhibition of the Scottish Labour History Society based on the life and times of William Gallacher.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5659/1-3
Scope and Contents

William Gallacher socialist agitator, chairman of Clyde Workers Committee 1914- 1918, leading member of communist Party and communist M.P. for West Fife 1935- 1950. An exhibition based on his life and times and labour history in Scotland was arranged by the Scottish Labour History Society for the National Union of Mineworkers (Scottish Area) circa 1966. All photographs are monochrome and undated unless stated otherwise.

Dates: 1886-1979, undated.

"Field Marshal Earl Haig K T Letters 1920 to 1927".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9431
Scope and Contents

Contains 41 letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.

Dates: circa 1920-circa 1927.

Financial and legal papers and correspondence relating to the works and literary estate of James Leslie Mitchell, sometimes writing as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, including some personal papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10966/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes personal documents, publishing agreements, royalty statements and related correspondence. These papers are mostly concerned with the administration of James Leslie Mitchell's (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) literary estate following his death in 1935, firstly by his wife, Ray Mitchell, and subsequently by his daughter, Rhea Martin.

Dates: 1901-1986.

Five letters of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and his wife, Dorothy, to Thomas Henry Nowell Parr.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11838
Scope and Contents

Letters concern personal and architectural matters, including four photographs of Haig and his wife.

Dates: 1917-1919.

Four letters, 1615, 1679, undated, concerning the family of Gordon, Buckie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3911
Scope and Contents

With letters, photographs and other papers, mainly concerning the Erskine family.

Dates: 1615-circa 1965.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13551
Scope and Contents

Further papers, 1992-2014, of Lord James-Douglas Hamilton, former MP for Edinburgh West (1974-1997), and former MSP for the Lothian’s (1999-2007). This set of papers mostly relate to personal and Parliamentary affairs, and his involvement in charity work. They also include some family papers.

Dates: 1992-2014.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).

Dates: 1968-1983.

Further papers of William Walls.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14364/1-7
Scope and Contents

The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.

Dates: 1845-1992.

Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: Circa 1925-2014.

Greetings card and letter of Mrs Fanny MacTaggart to Miss Margaret Morton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14201
Scope and Contents

The greetings card has a print of 'Setting Sun' by Sir William MacTaggart, Fanny's husband. With two portrait photographs of Miss Margaret Morton.

Margaret Morton trained at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, qualifying as a physiotherapist in 1965. She worked at Gilmore Place, the Domiciliary Centre for Rehabilitation, where she met and treated Fanny MacTaggart. Her interests included animals, travel, and horse-riding.

Dates: 1980.

Gude Cause Archive.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13293/1-240
Scope and Contents Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates: 2006-2010

Journals, notebooks and other papers of Sir James Mann Wordie, polar explorer, mostly relating to his tours and expeditions.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-99
Scope and Contents

Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).

Dates: 1865-1959.

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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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