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Photocopies of draft pages of Doris Anne Goodchild, "East Lothian" (1980) and "Pen Portraits of Edinburgh" (1981).
File
Identifier: Acc.10052
Dates:
circa 1980-1981.
Photocopies of letters of and to, and other documents concerning, David Livingstone.
File
Identifier: MS.20313
Dates:
1840-1872.
Photocopies of manuscripts of speeches at, and correspondence concerning, the dinner honouring David Nichol Smith on his 70th birthday.
File
Identifier: Acc.6640
Dates:
1945.
Photocopies of papers concerning the Omay family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7004
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. Paper, 1750, in a case between Duncan Omay of Kilchumkill and the 3rd Duke of Argyll
2. Letter and account, 1801, of John Forbes to Messrs Moddy and Omay, concerning collection of debts of a Scottish business in the United States
3. Letter, 1813, of Hector Macneill to Samuel Omay
4. 19 letters, 1813-1836, of John Galt to Samuel Omay.
Dates:
1750, 1801, 1813-1836.
Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6542
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1893-1940.
Photocopies of preliminaries and introduction by Sidney Roscoe to his and R A Brimmell`s bibliography of James Lumsden and Son, corrected by the author.
File
Identifier: Acc.9239
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of Lumsden title pages mounted in a loose leaf binder.
Dates:
circa 1980.
Photocopies of rejected drafts of articles intended for or submitted to "The Mirror".
File
Identifier: Acc.4361
Dates:
circa 1779.
Photocopies of scripts of two community plays by James Hay Hamilton.
File
Identifier: Acc.11663
Dates:
1975-1977.
Photocopies of ten letters (some fragmentary) of Madame Tussaud from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.8001
Scope and Contents
With translations.
Dates:
1803-1804.
Photocopies of transcription and translation of Peithynen, by Miss Selby.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4073
Dates:
circa 1966.
Photocopy and translation of the record of registration of the Greig family coat of arms by the Heraldic Department, St Petersburg, Russia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11399
Dates:
1915.
Photocopy of a draft address given by Les Murray at Stirling University.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10559
Dates:
1992.
Photocopy of a journal of a tour in Sutherland, 1955, of David Cairns; with a photocopy of an address of David Cairns, 1969, to the Aberdeen Branch of the Saltire Society, entitled 'Annals of a Sutherland parish".
File
Identifier: Acc.5947
Dates:
1955, 1969.
Photocopy of a speech of William Beattie to the Norwegian-Scottish Association.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5578
Dates:
1972.
Photocopy of draft letter of David Morrison to Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10887
Dates:
1992.
Photocopy of draft of the Copyright Act, prepared for its second reading.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9745
Dates:
1710.
Photocopy of manuscript draft of song of Robert Burns, "She says She Lo`es Me Best of a`".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8079
Scope and Contents
24 lines in two stanzas, written in pencil.
Dates:
circa 1780-circa 1796.
Photocopy of script of "Silver", a radio play by Jonathan Smith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11387
Dates:
1988.
Photocopy of scripts of "Lord Reith Looks Back", for three BBC television programmes of Malcolm Muggeridge interviewing Lord Reith.
File
Identifier: Acc.5364
Dates:
1967.
Photocopy of the first page of the indictment at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, inscribed with the signatures of the prosecuting counsel.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9061
Dates:
1945.
Photocopy of translation by Queen Elizabeth I of 'Institution de la Vie Chretienne' by Calvin.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6250
Dates:
circa 1541-circa 1603.
Photocopy of typescript of "The Stick-Up", a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with autograph emendations and additions by Robin Orr, being a draft of the libretto of his opera "Full Circle".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10670
Dates:
1961.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated
Research papers and analysis concerning migration between villages in the Faroe Islands and out of the Faroe Islands.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10942/1-69
Dates:
1942-1982.
Research papers, notes and email correspondence of Margaret Elphinstone relating to ‘The Gathering Night’ (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009), with some printout drafts of sections of the novel.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13731/1-11
Scope and Contents
Like many historical novelists, Margaret Elphinstone carries out extensive research on the subjects on which she plans to write. These papers demonstrate that she pursues her research to academic levels and beyond: corresponding with, and interviewing, experts in very specialised fields; reading widely; attending conferences and courses and - to some extent - trying to experience for herself what her characters’ lives would ‘feel’ like. The file headings alone indicate the depth and breadth...
Dates:
Circa 2007-2008.