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Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks of Dudley W A Sommer concerning his researches towards, and the publication in May 1960 of, his ‘Haldane of Cloan his life and times 1856-1928’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20661-20667
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Dudley Sommer, with a few drafts and, from 1958, several copies in typescript carbon of his replies. A few transcripts of letters of J S Haldane sent to him during his researches are also enclosed.

Press cuttings containing reviews, some of which give rise to correspondence with reviewers and editors, are contained in the chronological sequence (chiefly May-July 1960).

Dates: 1952-1964, undated.

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.

Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MS.972
Scope and Contents

The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.

Dates: 1836-1841, 1881.

Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5761
Scope and Contents

With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.

Dates: 1963.

Drafts and corrected typescripts of "The Seven Deadly Sins: a Mask", libretto by Robert Nye, music by James Douglas.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.6241/1-5
Scope and Contents

With manuscript score of the music, and correspondence concerning the work and its performance at the Stirling Festval, 1973, and Edinburgh International Festival, 1974.

Dates: 1973-1974.

Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12557/1-21
Scope and Contents The largest portion of this collection is taken up by drafts of film scripts for 'Poor things', co-written by Alasdair Gray and Sandy Johnson, director, with comments and changes of both, as well as comments and changes of Iain Brown, producer, and Brian Gibson, another director who was later attached to the project.There are also some files of correspondence and drafts of articles and illustrations for other projects, as well as typescripts and proofs of the short story...
Dates: 1988-2003.

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).

Dates: 2001-2012.

Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).

 File
Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates: 1814-1919, undated.

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Drafts. Documents. 130
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Correspondence. 83
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Novels. 33
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 32
Notebooks. 31
Photographs. 31
Copies. Derivative objects. 27
Translations. Documents. 25
Short stories. 19
Diaries. 18
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English 188
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Names
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 7
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 6
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 5
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 5
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
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Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 3
Brown, Ian, Professor of Drama, Kingston University, London, b 1945 3
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 3
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 3
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 3
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 3
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 3
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 2
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 2
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Lingard, Joan, author, b 1932 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 2
National Library of Scotland 2
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 2
Riddell, Alan, poet and editor, b 1927 2
Stewart, Mary Florence Elinor, novelist, wife of Sir Frederick Henry, geologist, née Rainbow, b 1916 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
Watson, Roderick, poet, b 1943 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Abulafia, John, writer and director, b 1947 1
Akros, literary magazine 1
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Amman, Alexander, Polish Army, fl 1939-1942 1
Anderson, William James, Senior Curate, St Mary's, Chelsea, 1894-1972 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Arbuckle, Sir William Forbes, Knight, Secretary, Scottish Education Department, 1902-1966 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Bellany, John (artist) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Bochanan, Dùghall, poet, 1716-1768 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich, playwright, 1898-1956 1
British Broadcasting Corporation 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Service, public service broadcaster 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Region, -1939, public service broadcaster 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948: recipient 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Cameron, John, of Fassifern, c 1699-1785 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Campbell, Austin, film director, fl 1960-1971 1
Campbell, Donald, poet and dramatist, b 1940 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Church of Scotland, Itu Leper Colony, Nigeria 1
Claire, Regi, author, b. 1962 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Craig, Robert, Principal of University of Rhodesia, 1917-1995 1
Craigie, Sir William Alexander, Knight, philologist, 1867-1957 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davie, George Elder, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1912-2007 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Douglas, James, composer, b 1932 1
Drysdale, George John Learmont, composer, 1866-1909 1
Edinburgh International Festival 1
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Eveling, Harry Stanley, playwright, 1925-2008 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone, novelist, 1782-1854 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1
Frame, Ronald William Sutherland, author and playwright, b 1953 1
Gallus Stage Productions, theatre company 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Geddes, John Maxwell, composer, 1941-2017 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
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