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Photocopies of manuscripts of speeches at, and correspondence concerning, the dinner honouring David Nichol Smith on his 70th birthday.
Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.
Including:
1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)
2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel
3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937
4. commonplace book, circa 1896
5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.
Political and personal correspondence and papers of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, including some papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Political correspondence of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, mainly as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West, 1974-1997, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians, 1999-2007.
Records of the National Party of Scotland, Scottish Convention, Scottish Covenant Association and Scottish National Party.
Minutes, letters and papers, with miscellaneous printed political leaflets and ephemera retained with the collection, from the Edinburgh Headquarters of the Scottish National Party. Included are records of other organizations of the national movement.
Single letters and papers.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Two letters, 1746, of Donald McDonald of Trionadrish, one to his wife, the other probably to James Graham of Airth
With a copy of McDonald`s speech at his execution, and two letters, 1757, of his brother, Robert, while exiled at Donai, to his sister.
Typescript of an address on Robert Louis Stevenson delivered by R A Knox to the Stevenson Club in 1949.
The typescript was marked by R A Knox to indicate pauses and points of emphasis.
A letter of Knox to Sir Randall Philip, Sheriff of Ayr and Renfrew, concerning the deposit of the address in the National Library of Scotland, is also included.
Typescripts of talks of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia.
With two letters of the Reverend Thomas M Donn to Thomson, and cuttings.