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Letters of Lieutenant (Alexander) Nigel Trotter, 3rd Battalion Royal Scots.
File
Identifier: Acc.6614
Scope and Contents
Letters of Lieutenant Alexander Nigel Trotter, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).The letters are mostly from Nigel, as he was known to his family, whilst serving in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots. They are to his family, mostly his mother Mrs A.P. Trotter, and describe military training and the early weeks of the First World War. Also included are typescripts of letters to Trotter`s mother from his Captain and others describing his death, and two photographs...
Dates:
1912-1914.
Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John Bruce Wood, and some of his brothers, to their brother, William Wood, from the Western Front and the Dardanelles during the First World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12872
Scope and Contents
Inlcudes photographs of the Wood brothers.
Dates:
1915-1919.
Letters of Muriel Spark to Frances Cowell with related correspondence and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12890
Dates:
1963, 1990-2005.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
Scope and Contents
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Dates:
1885-1914, undated.
Letters of the Reverend Dr James Dalzell and his wife, Elizabeth.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8109
Scope and Contents
With photographs of the Gordon Memorial Mission, Natal.
Dates:
1875-1901 and undated.
Letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Sylvia Thompson; with photographs and artwork.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13264
Scope and Contents
Sylvia Thompson became friendly with the Grahams in the 1980s. From a nursing background, she became a great source of practical help to the couple during W S Graham`s last years, which were dogged by ill-health. The great affection in which she was held by the Grahams is evident in the letters, and in the various gifts of photographs and drawings.
Dates:
1982-1987.
Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11590
Scope and Contents
Includes related family letters and photographs.
Dates:
1948-1970 and undated.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.176
Dates:
1884-1969.
Letters, papers, photographs and other papers of the Johnston family, and financial and business records of the firm W and A K Johnston, printers and publishers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5811/1-54
Scope and Contents
Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.
Dates:
Circa 1796-1931.
Letters, photographs and papers, 1815-1936, 1972, and undated, of or concerning the Dallas and Macarthur families of Nairn, and relating chiefly to the activities of the brothers Macarthur in Quebec, Ontario, Iowa and Manitoba from 1861.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.277- is now Acc.10623.
Dates:
1815-1936, 1972.
Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.
File
Identifier: Acc.11800
Scope and Contents
Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.
Dates:
circa 1800-1965.
Letters, photographs and papers of Lena Scott, relating to Grange School, Edinburgh and her service in the First World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12543
Dates:
1889-1972.
Letters, photographs and press-cuttings relating largely to the climbing activities of Iain Smart and Malcolm Slesser in Greenland and elswhere.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13310
Dates:
1946-1992
Letters, press cuttings, photographs and pamphlets concerning Tibbie Shiels.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9850
Dates:
circa 1878-1882.
Letters, scrapbooks, photographs and papers of James Scott, baker, Edinburgh, and of other members of the Scott family, of Scott`s Bakers Shop, Broughton Street, Edinburgh and Scott-Lyon Ltd, Bakers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12771
Dates:
1840-1969.
Letters, sketchbooks and photographs of Horatio Ross and his son Horatio Seftenberg Ross, with papers of and relating to the Ross family
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13765
Dates:
1830-1884.
Letters, theatrical ephemera and copies, sent to and collected by Archie Foley for his research into Graham Moffat.
File
Identifier: Acc.13437
Scope and Contents
The collection relates to Archie Foley`s research into Graham Moffat and his company, which included other members of the Moffat family. Moffat was best-known for his 1911 hit play, `Bunty Pulls the Strings`, which had a long run in London`s West End and on Broadway, and was made into a film in 1921. The collection includes early programmes and copies of promotional photographs for the play, papers relating to other works by Moffat and copies of a few of his letters. The later correspondence...
Dates:
1911-1988
Letters to and relating to Roberta Allan, consisting mainly of references from employers during her working life prior to becoming a missionary in Kenya in the 1930s.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12534
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs relating to Roberta Allan and her family.
Dates:
circa 1916-1997.
Letters to George Mackay Brown from friends, fellow writers, publishers and broadcasters, mostly concerning literary matters.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10372/1-15
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from many of George Mackay Brown's lifelong correspondents, including Kulgin Duvall and Hugo Brunner. Letters for 1976 cover the period during which he and Nora Kennedy first met, and include several of her letters.A large number of the letters are from publishers, including The Hogarth Press, Chatto & Windus, and several smaller publishers. Letters for 1986 cover the period during which Brown followed Hugo Brunner from Chatto & Windus to John Murray, who...
Dates:
1974-1987.
Letters written by prominent Scottish cricketers.
File
Identifier: Acc.9105
Scope and Contents
Many letters accompanied by photographs for inclusion in a Bazaar Book, produced to raise funds for Arbroath United Cricket Club.
Dates:
1889.
Literary and personal papers of Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts of published and unpublished books, articles, stories and poems, with associated correspondence and some genealogical material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6215 Box 1(a)-Box 9(d)
Dates:
circa 1931-1970, undated.
Literary and personal papers of, and relating to, David Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13259/1-78
Scope and Contents
As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.
Dates:
19th century, circa 1916-1996.
Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents
At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates:
1885-2019, undated.