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Photograph of a letter of Petrarch to Benintendi Ravagnant.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6243
Dates:
circa 1330-circa 1374.
Photograph of letter of T R Hay, 11th Earl of Kinnoull, to John Malcolm.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3839
Scope and Contents
Appointing Mr Young to the charge.
Dates:
1834.
Photograph of part of a letter of Ada Goodrich Freer to Lady Bute.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4915
Dates:
? 1899.
Photograph of portion of letter of Father Alexander Cameron, Society of Jesus, to his brother Donald, of Lochiel.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10953
Scope and Contents
Concerns Alexander Cameron`s conversion to Roman Catholicism.
Dates:
? 1730.
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
Photographs and printed items concerning Annie S Swan.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6469/1-9
Scope and Contents
Printed items and photographs of and concerning the novelist and playwright, Annie S Swan (1859-1943). As some of the items are dated later than 1943 they evidently did not belong to Annie S Swan but have been left in the collection. With letter, 1942, of the Earl of Rosebery to V Rule, concerning a social engagement.
Dates:
1894-1948 and undated.
Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.
File
Identifier: MS.9748
Scope and Contents
The collection was made by Professor John Burns Martin for his edition (with J W Oliver, completed by A M Kinghorn and A Law) of ‘The works of Allan Ramsay’, (Scottish Text Society, 1951-1974).The contents of the collection are as follows.(i) Photostats of Allan Ramsay's autograph manuscript of fourteen poems, now in the Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California (H.M.211). (Folio 1.)(ii) Photostats of a manuscript, now in the Huntington Library...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 18th century, 1929.
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11193
Scope and Contents
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.
Dates:
circa 1822-1995.
Photographs of 26 letters of and concerning James Mason.
File
Identifier: Acc.3608
Scope and Contents
With photograph of indenture concerning his son, George.
Dates:
1795-1807.
Photographs of a letter from Malcolm Beaton to his uncle in Tarbert, Argyll.
File
Identifier: Acc.6880
Dates:
1856.
Photographs of the Dobson family, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.12288
Scope and Contents
Includes two letters and a certificate.
Dates:
circa 1900-1952.
Photographs of three letters of Lachlan Macquarie to James Drummond.
File
Identifier: Acc.4749
Dates:
1814, 1823-1824.
Photographs of two letters, 1902 and undated, of Dame Nellie Melba and four letters, 1946-1948, of Sir Harry Lauder, to Donald Mackintosh.
File
Identifier: Acc.9559
Dates:
1902, 1946-1948 and undated.
Photographs of two letters of Sir Walter Scott, to Professor Kund Lyne Rahbek, and to Adam Öhlenschlager, the Danish poet.
File
Identifier: MS.85
Scope and Contents
The letter to Professor Kund Lyne Rahbek, 1822, concerns the republication of the Kaempeviser, and the letter to Adam Öhlenschlager, 1824 (according to the post¬mark; Scott dates 1816), concerns the publication of the latter’s work in English.
Dates:
1822, 1824.
Photographs, photostats and photographic plates of miscellaneous letters and documents.
Series
Identifier: MS.662(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1297-1778.
Presentation photo albums and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly relating to his role as Chief Scout.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10323/1-53
Scope and Contents
Presentation albums, some in special bindings, notebooks, papers, formal addresses and other documents, and a few letters, 1944-1968, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan. Almost all the material is concerned with Rowallan's period as Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire (1945-1959), and many of the items were presented to him during Commonwealth tours. Included with the collection is one certificate, 1968, presented to Gwen Mervyn, Lady Rowallan...
Dates:
1944-1968, undated.
Records of the Edinburgh People's Festival.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14155/1-42
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh People’s Festival (EPF) was founded in 2002 by Colin Fox as a ‘more accessible and inclusive cultural alternative’ to the Edinburgh International Festival. It presented a series of plays, lectures, concerts, pageants, ceilidhs, and art exhibitions in different venues around the city of Edinburgh in August and throughout the year until 2018. The EPF was established in part as a tribute to the festival of the same name organised by the Edinburgh Labour Festival Committee,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1954, 2003-2020.
Records of the Scots Club, London.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9943
Scope and Contents
Includes:
four minute books, 1911-1930, 1936-1938
sketches, including one by James McBey
ten letters of J M Barrie, and two of Viscount Haldane
a cartoon and a photograh, 1911, depicting members
two letters, 1961, of James Bone, concerning relics of the Club.
Dates:
1911-1961.
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
Royal letters and photographs mostly addressed to the Very Reverend Dr James MacGregor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4177
Dates:
19th century.
Royal letters and photographs, mostly addressed to the Very Reverend Dr James MacGregor, Minister of St Cuthbert`s, Edinburgh, and chaplain to Queen Victoria.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.85- is now Acc.4177.
Dates:
19th century.