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Seven letters, 1849-1865, two notebooks, 1859, and facsimiles of three letters, 1857-1872, of David Livingstone; photograph of a letter, 1873, of Jacob Wainwright; and, letter, 1930, of Matthew Wellington.
Single letters 1906, 1908, of Joseph and Else Joachim, and a photograph (with a reduced copy) of Joseph Joachim, 1903.
Single letters and papers.
The contents include: letters, 1825-1826, of Robert Chambers regarding a projected but apparently unpublished work, 'Traditions of Scotland'; a photograph of Sir Walter Scott's letter, 1827, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, now in the Goethe- und Schiller- Archiv, Weimar; and correspondence, 1854-1868, (chiefly of Sir Roderick Murchison) of and relating to David Livingstone.
Six letters to D H McNeill, from C M Grieve, Andrew Dewar Gibb, Neil Gunn, William Power, Douglas Young, and R B Cunninghame Graham.
Mostly concerning McNeill`s published works.
With two letters, 1939, 1964, to Marian McNeill, from C M Grieve and Augusta Lamont, and a signed photograph of R B Cunninghame Graham.
Small collection of letters, papers, photographs and press cuttings from the Minto Papers.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Small collections of letters of Sir James Barrie and Osborne Henry Mavor ('James Bridie').
Ten letters and a postcard of Leonora Blanche Lang, née Alleyne, to her niece Margaret Munro and her husband William. With a notebook and photographs.
Notebook contains series of sketches titled "Country Conversations"; photographs of Leonora and Andrew Lang.
Three letters of George Tancred of Weens tipped into a copy of his ‘Rulewater and its people’ (Edinburgh, 1907), presented by him to J Lindsay Hilson.
The letters are tipped in on guards inside the front cover. On one of the letters is pasted a signed photograph of George Tancred of Weens.
There is a presentation note, 1907, on the flyleaf of the book.
Tipped in inside the back cover is a cutting from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, dated 11 January 1908, containing a review of the book.
Two letters, 1955-1958, concerning Alexander J F Reid, "Alexander John Forsyth... and his Invention of the Percussion Lock" (1909)
With two photographs, 1965 and undated.
Two letters of Jacob Wainwright written while in England after accompanying the body of David Livingstone from Africa, and giving an account of its preservation and transport, and also describing his own time in England.
Includes a carte de visite photograph of Wainwright.
Two letters of John Salmond from New Zealand on matters relating to emigration and settlement of the Dunedin and Otago areas.
Includes transcriptions, supporting documentation and copies of family photographs.
‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.
Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.
Typescript of Hamish Brown`s "Get Your Knees Brown, Brown: National Service Letters Egypt, Kenya, 1953-1955".
Includes photographs of expeditions in Scotland by pupils of Braehead School, 1950s.
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.
Typescript translation of questions on Buddhism submitted to the Dalai Lama by the Reverend Even Mackenzie.
With photograph, circa 1912, of the Dalai Lama.