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Photocopy of letter of Robert Louis Stevenson to C Howard Carrington.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7306
Dates:
Undated
Photocopy of letter of Samuel Laing to Jacob Aall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11043
Scope and Contents
Concerns Laing`s translation of the Icelandic chronicle, the Heimskringla.
Dates:
1844.
Photocopy of letter of Sir Walter Scott to Miss Melville.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5096
Dates:
circa 1800-circa 1832.
Photocopy of letter of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Southey.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6731
Scope and Contents
On the poet-laureateship.
Dates:
1813.
Photocopy of letter of the Reverened Robert McCheyne to Thomas Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7983
Scope and Contents
Concerning church extension in Perthshire.
Dates:
1838.
Photocopy of letter of Walter Scott to William Muir.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11825
Scope and Contents
Letter concerns the genealogy of the family of Muir of Rowallan.
Dates:
1824.
Photocopy of letter of William Jaffray.
File
Identifier: Acc.4076
Scope and Contents
With two printed itmes of Patrick Chalmers.
Dates:
1835.
Photocopy of letters from Eleanor of Scotland to her husband, Sigismund of Austria.
File
Identifier: Acc.7802
Scope and Contents
With letter of Eleanor to James, Lord Hamilton.
Dates:
circa 1450.
Photocopy of request by Queen Mary and King Henry to the Earl Marshal for loan of money.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11643
Dates:
1565.
Photocopy of the thesis, 1969, of John V Pearson, "A North American "Piping Fanatic", Alexander K Cameron (1882-1956), Montana`s Bagpipe Essayist".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8424
Scope and Contents
With letter, 1983, of Pearson.
Dates:
1969, 1983.
Photograph, 1873, of John Brown and Mark Twain.
File
Identifier: Acc.6733
Scope and Contents
With photcopy of associated letter, 1874, of Brown to Twain.
Dates:
1873-1874.
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
Reminiscences, ? 1936, of the Reverend Dr E M Macphail.
File
Identifier: Acc.8299
Scope and Contents
Concerning his service in Madras Christian College in 1886-1887 and of life in Madras at this time.
With letter, 1936, of Secretary of Madras Christian College Day Association to Macphail.
Dates:
1936 and undated.
Single letters and small collections of letters.
Series
Identifier: MS.9752
Dates:
1654-1959, undated.
Six letters, 1938-1961, of Hugh MacDiarmid to Glyn Jones, on literary matters, and photocopy of a letter, 1939, of MacDiarmid to Keidrych Ryhs.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10914
Scope and Contents
Includes 70 letters and copies of letters, 1965-1986, of and to Glyn Jones, mostly concerning to the controversy over Hugh MacDiarmid`s poem, "Perfect".
Dates:
1938-1984.