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Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

Miscellaneous documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.

 File
Identifier: MS.5407
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous documents, 1539-1838, relating to the burgh of Montrose and the surrounding country. They include papers relating to the Priory (folios 5-6, 11) and the town council (passim), the death-roll of the Plague, 1648 (folio 18), and fragments of the treasurers' accounts, 1676-1704 (folios 37-53); from folio 54 onwards are a number of legal papers, some fragmentary, mainly concerning lands in Angus.(ii) Miscellaneous documents,...
Dates: 1539-1838.

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3836

Papers, 1908-1971, of and concerning Thomas J Honeyman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9787
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, lectures, speeches, broadcasts and articles.

With papers, 1877-1934, of his father, Thomas Honeyman.

Dates: 1877-1971.

Papers concerning "Passacaglia on DSCH" by Ronald Stevenson

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11055
Scope and Contents

Includes scores, notes, press cuttings, a speech and correspondence.

Dates: 1960-1994.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers concerning the Lord High Commissioners to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10240/1-116
Scope and Contents

The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.

Dates: 1924-1984, undated.

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 Lord Boyd Orr.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6545
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.

Dates: 1938-1971.

Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11309
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.

Dates: 1904-1988.

Papers of and concerning Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, and his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6604/1-3
Scope and Contents

Letters and papers of randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway and his wife Countess Harriet Blanche, 1834-73, consisting mainly of political and family letters.

Including circa 90 letters, containing social and political news and comment.

With a draft of a parliamentary speech on the Colliery Bill, 1842.

Dates: 1826-1871.

Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4290
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family

2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family

3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling

4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.

Dates: 19th century.

Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19245-19250
Scope and Contents

A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

Dates: 1891-1925.

Papers of and relating to Harry Lauder.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13330
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 1900-1935, of and relating to Sir Harry Lauder. Includes scripts of `patter`, songs and music by Lauder and other writers; draft of `Immortal Memory` speech given by Lauder in Boston, USA, 1915; letter, 1917, of Hannen Swaffer, editor of `The Weekly Dispatch`, praising Lauder`s appearance on the London stage after his son`s death in action in France in December 1916.

Dates: Circa 1900-1935.

Papers of Arthur Woodburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6276
Scope and Contents

Concerning his Parliamentary Bill to facilitate the formation of a common European language.

Dates: 1962-1963.

Papers of David Cairns.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9326
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, addresses, and poems, transcripts of diaries and correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986.

Papers of David Torrance relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13670/1-17
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the activities of David Torrance surrounding the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. As well as publishing numerous newspaper, magazine and online articles on the subject of the Referendum, Torrance has also written a number of books on the subject, including The Battle for Britain: Scotland and the Scottish Independence Referendum (2013), Scotland’s Referendum: A Guide for Voters (2014) and 100 Days of Hope...
Dates: 2012-2014

Papers of Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10155/1-98
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, articles, broadcast talks and poems, with correspondence.

Dates: 1902-1974 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

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Correspondence. 70
Letters. Correspondence. 42
Typescripts. 40
Manuscripts. 37
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 31
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Articles. 29
Photographs. 27
Notes. 26
Poetry. 21
Copies. Derivative objects. 20
Diaries. 18
Drafts. Documents. 17
Lectures. 17
Lists. 12
Notebooks. 12
Accounts. 10
Memorandums. 9
Minutes. Administrative records. 9
Documents. 7
Photocopies. 7
Reports. 7
Essays. 6
Excerpts. 6
Obituaries. 6
Reviews. Document genre 6
Fragments. 5
Journals. Accounts. 5
Novels. 5
Plays. 5
Printed materials. Object genre. 5
Short stories. 5
Biographies. 4
Declarations. 4
Financial records. 4
Indexes. Reference sources. 4
Instructions. Document genre. 4
Legal documents. 4
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 4
Letter books. 4
Microfilms. 4
Orders. Records (documents). 4
Pamphlets. 4
Proofs. Printed matter. 4
Publications. 4
Reports 4
Scripts. Documents 4
Transcripts. 4
Abstracts. Summaries. 3
Genealogies. 3
Postcards. 3
Proceedings. Reports. 3
Receipts. Financial records. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Sketches 3
Songs. Musical compositions. 3
Warrants. Permissions. 3
Account books. 2
Agendas. Administrative records. 2
Annotations. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Autobiographies. 2
Autographs (manuscripts). 2
Calculations. 2
Cashbooks. 2
Catalogues. 2
Certificates. 2
Charters 2
Depositions. Testimonies. 2
Dispatches. 2
Documentaries. 2
Ephemera. 2
Extracts. 2
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 2
Histories. 2
Inventories. 2
Manifestoes. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Memorials. Legal documents. 2
Menus. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Petitions. 2
Photograph albums. 2
Prefaces. 2
Proclamations. 2
Professional papers. 2
Programmes 2
Registers (lists). 2
Rules. Instructions 2
Rules. Instructions. 2
Sketchbooks 2
Sketches. 2
Testimonials. 2
Transcripts 2
Abridgements. Versions of documents. 1
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Administrative records. 1
Admission tickets. Tickets. 1
Advertisements. 1
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
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Language
English 85
Undetermined 24
Latin 1
Multiple languages 1
Russian 1
 
Names
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 5
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
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Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Scottish National Party 2
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Barbour, Sir Robert Alexander Stewart, Knight, Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Aberdeen, b 1921 1
Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989 (English printmaker, graphic designer, and illustrator) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan, author and mountaineer, b 1934: recipient 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Burns, George, Minister of Tweedsmuir, 1790-1876 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly 1
Clark, Alastair Trevor (colonial civil servant, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Solomon Islands) 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Duncan, Joseph Forbes, Trade Union Secretary, 1879-1964 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Gairdner, David, assistant to John Alpine, Minister of Skirling, d 1837 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gibson, Sir Alexander Drummond, Knight, conductor, 1926-1995 1
Graham, James, of Airth, Judge Admiral, d 1753: recipient 1
Gray (family, of Carntyne and Anstruther ) 1
Gray (family, of Kilmany ) 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, Knight, General, 1853-1947 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 1
Holms, William, spinner and politician, b 1827 1
Honeyman, Thomas John, Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, 1891-1971 1
Honeyman, Thomas, father of Thomas John, Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, fl 1877-1934 1
Horsburgh, family 1
Johnson, Don, writer of account of a journey from Land's End to John O'Groats, fl 1994 1
Johnston, Thomas, politician and newspaper editor, 1881-1965 1
Kelsall, Moultrie Rowe, actor and producer, 1904-1980 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Liberal Democrats, political party 1
Liberal Party, political party 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Lockhart, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce, Knight, diplomatist, 1887-1970 1
Lorimer, Robert Lewis Campbell, publisher, 1918-1996 1
MacDonald, Margo, teacher, broadcaster, politician, 1943-2014 1
MacEwen, Sir Alexander Malcolm, Knight, solicitor, 1875-1941 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackay, James Peter Hymers, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland and Keeper of the Signet, b 1927 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Maxwell , Gavin, Naturalist and author, 1914-1969: recipient 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
McDonald, Donald, of Tirnadrish, d 1746 1
McDonald, Robert, brother of Donald, of Tirnadrish, fl 1757 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Munro, Neil, author, pseudonym Hugh Foulis, 1864-1930 1
Munro, Sir Alasdair Thomas Ian, 6th Baronet, of Lindertis, b 1927 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Party of Scotland 1
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, naval officer, 1758–1805 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971. 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008: former owner 1
Salisbury, Bishop of 1
Scottish Covenant Association, Scottish Convention 1
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