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Letters of Lieutenant (Alexander) Nigel Trotter, 3rd Battalion Royal Scots.
File
Identifier: Acc.6614
Scope and Contents
Letters of Lieutenant Alexander Nigel Trotter, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).The letters are mostly from Nigel, as he was known to his family, whilst serving in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots. They are to his family, mostly his mother Mrs A.P. Trotter, and describe military training and the early weeks of the First World War. Also included are typescripts of letters to Trotter`s mother from his Captain and others describing his death, and two photographs...
Dates:
1912-1914.
Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John Bruce Wood, and some of his brothers, to their brother, William Wood, from the Western Front and the Dardanelles during the First World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12872
Scope and Contents
Inlcudes photographs of the Wood brothers.
Dates:
1915-1919.
Letters of Muriel Spark to Frances Cowell with related correspondence and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12890
Dates:
1963, 1990-2005.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
Scope and Contents
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Dates:
1885-1914, undated.
Letters of the Reverend Dr James Dalzell and his wife, Elizabeth.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8109
Scope and Contents
With photographs of the Gordon Memorial Mission, Natal.
Dates:
1875-1901 and undated.
Letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Sylvia Thompson; with photographs and artwork.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13264
Scope and Contents
Sylvia Thompson became friendly with the Grahams in the 1980s. From a nursing background, she became a great source of practical help to the couple during W S Graham`s last years, which were dogged by ill-health. The great affection in which she was held by the Grahams is evident in the letters, and in the various gifts of photographs and drawings.
Dates:
1982-1987.
Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11590
Scope and Contents
Includes related family letters and photographs.
Dates:
1948-1970 and undated.
Letters, photographs and papers, 1815-1936, 1972, and undated, of or concerning the Dallas and Macarthur families of Nairn, and relating chiefly to the activities of the brothers Macarthur in Quebec, Ontario, Iowa and Manitoba from 1861.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.277- is now Acc.10623.
Dates:
1815-1936, 1972.
Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.
File
Identifier: Acc.11800
Scope and Contents
Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.
Dates:
circa 1800-1965.
Letters, photographs and papers of Lena Scott, relating to Grange School, Edinburgh and her service in the First World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12543
Dates:
1889-1972.
Letters, photographs and press-cuttings relating largely to the climbing activities of Iain Smart and Malcolm Slesser in Greenland and elswhere.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13310
Dates:
1946-1992
Letters, press cuttings, photographs and pamphlets concerning Tibbie Shiels.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9850
Dates:
circa 1878-1882.
Letters, scrapbooks, photographs and papers of James Scott, baker, Edinburgh, and of other members of the Scott family, of Scott`s Bakers Shop, Broughton Street, Edinburgh and Scott-Lyon Ltd, Bakers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12771
Dates:
1840-1969.
Letters, theatrical ephemera and copies, sent to and collected by Archie Foley for his research into Graham Moffat.
File
Identifier: Acc.13437
Scope and Contents
The collection relates to Archie Foley`s research into Graham Moffat and his company, which included other members of the Moffat family. Moffat was best-known for his 1911 hit play, `Bunty Pulls the Strings`, which had a long run in London`s West End and on Broadway, and was made into a film in 1921. The collection includes early programmes and copies of promotional photographs for the play, papers relating to other works by Moffat and copies of a few of his letters. The later correspondence...
Dates:
1911-1988
Letters to and relating to Roberta Allan, consisting mainly of references from employers during her working life prior to becoming a missionary in Kenya in the 1930s.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12534
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs relating to Roberta Allan and her family.
Dates:
circa 1916-1997.
Letters to George Mackay Brown from friends, fellow writers, publishers and broadcasters, mostly concerning literary matters.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10372/1-15
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from many of George Mackay Brown's lifelong correspondents, including Kulgin Duvall and Hugo Brunner. Letters for 1976 cover the period during which he and Nora Kennedy first met, and include several of her letters.A large number of the letters are from publishers, including The Hogarth Press, Chatto & Windus, and several smaller publishers. Letters for 1986 cover the period during which Brown followed Hugo Brunner from Chatto & Windus to John Murray, who...
Dates:
1974-1987.
Letters written by prominent Scottish cricketers.
File
Identifier: Acc.9105
Scope and Contents
Many letters accompanied by photographs for inclusion in a Bazaar Book, produced to raise funds for Arbroath United Cricket Club.
Dates:
1889.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13722
Dates:
Circa 1946-1994.
Manuscript material of David Livingstone, additional to MSS.10707-10756: Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20314-20316
Dates:
1849-1873.
Material relating to Learmont Drysdale, the composer.
File
Identifier: MS.6297
Scope and Contents
Included are Learmont Drysdale's certificates for drawing and musical composition, reports on his progress at the Royal Academy of Music, 1889-1890, some drawings (folios 6-7), and a photograph of Ladislao Zavertal with the Pollokshields Musical Society, 1875 (folio 10). There are two letters, 1927, 1949, concerning the material (folio 1); and the Lucas Memorial and Bronze medals of the Royal Academy (awarded 1890) are boxed with the collection.
Dates:
1875-1949.
Microfilm of assorted letters, 15th century-1st quarter of 20th century; and, photographs, ?1920, of the manuscript, [before 1842], described as the ‘Cromarty Manuscript’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.132
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Assorted letters, with a receipt and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston, 15th century-1st quarter of 20th century (Adv.MS.7.1.19);Photographs, ?1920, of the manuscript, [before 1842], described by John Sobieski Stuart in his edition of the ‘Vestiarum Scoticum’ (Edinburgh, 1842), and further discussed by him in his “Reply to the ‘Quarterly Review’ [June, 1847] upon the ‘Vestiarium Scoticum’”, where it is described as...
Dates:
15th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Microfilm of papers of Sir John Kirk (1832-1922) from the National Library of Scotland (Adam Matthew Publications).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1724-1733
Dates:
[?1856-?1972.]
Microfilm of photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Album, 1917, undated, of photographs of Blackpool, the voyage to South Africa with the RAMC, and wartime scenes in Cape Town and Durban (Acc.12016/1); Album, 1919-1922, of mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, and in Britain (Acc.12016/5);Album entitled ‘Chogoria – the early days. The start to 12 October 1922’ (Acc.12016/6);Album entitled ‘Chogoria early days, 1922-1930’ (Acc.12016/7); Album...
Dates:
[1917-1996.]
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.