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Papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library on the Copyright Bill.
File
Identifier: F.R.336d
Dates:
1911.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges and sister organisations.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6889
Dates:
1909-1967.
Papers of the National League of the Blind, Edinburgh Branch.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.123- is now Acc.4686.
Dates:
1943-1967.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.
Dates:
1946-1982.
Papers of W Fisher.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8080
Scope and Contents
Including letters and press cuttings, concerning Scottish nationalism.
Dates:
1931-circa 1953.
Papers of William Bell concerning his research on Henry Bell.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.278
Dates:
1899-1978.
Papers, relating to Andrew Haig Hamilton largely concerning bowling, including correspondence, an illustrated bound letter of appreciation, photographs and press cuttings.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14614/1-8
Scope and Contents
The papers here relate to Andrew Haig Hamilton. Hamilton was a keen sportsman who was heavily involved in many different associations, including the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Scottish Bowling Association and Carlton Cricket Club.Hamilton was Secretary to the Scottish Bowling Association for over 40 years and was instrumental in establishing the first International Bowling Tournament between Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland in London in 1903.Bowling teams in...
Dates:
1887-1950.
Papers relating to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington with campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together during the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13614/1-4
Scope and Contents
Papers related to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington (Emeritus Professor Bacteriology, University of Aberdeen) with the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, particularly with the campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together.
Dates:
2012-2014
Personal and political correspondence of Walter E Elliot and of Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12267
Dates:
1912-1957, undated.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008
Photocopies of letters, 1859-1860, to Kenneth Morrison, from relatives in Barvas and North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis.
File
Identifier: Acc.6879
Scope and Contents
With later family letter, 1874, fragments of letters, and press cuttings.
Dates:
1859-1874.
Photocopies of papers concerning the football career of Arthur McGachie with East Fife Footbal Club, Dunfermline Athletic Football Club and other Fife clubs.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11473
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, agreements, match programmes, photographs and press cuttings.
Dates:
1931-1995 and undated.
Photocopies of three letters, 1987-1988, of Norman MacCaig.
File
Identifier: Acc.11324
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of press cuttings concerning Anna MacDonald.
Dates:
1950-1996.
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.
Press cuttings and letters to Herbert B Mackintosh concerning his "Pilgrimage in Moray".
File
Identifier: Acc.10183
Dates:
1924.
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.
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.
Scrapbook concerning plans to re-build the chapel of Holyrood House.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14089
Content Description
A scrapbook documenting Lord Leven's proposal to re-build the chapel of Holyrood House, Edinburgh, and his bequest of a large sum of money assigned to this purpose. According to the terms of the will, the work depended on the approval of two executors, who in 1906 decided not to let it go ahead. The scrapbooks contains press cuttings of obituaries and death notices of the Earl of Leven, some printed documents and reports, and newspaper articles and letters to the editors. With a...
Dates:
ca. 1908
Scrapbooks of correspondence and papers of Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach").
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13587
Scope and Contents
Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach", 1860-1928) is the author of `Story and Song from Loch Ness-side` (Inverness 1914) and of a Gaelic poetry collection of his own, `Còinneach `us Coille` (Inverness 1895). After the appearance of his poetry collection he continued to contribute songs composed or edited by himself to newspapers, but these were not subsequently collected into a second volume. He also wrote a large number of articles on Gaelic- and Highland-related matters in journals...
Dates:
1878-ca. 1925
Small collection of letters, papers, photographs and press cuttings from the Minto Papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19574-19577
Dates:
1784-[1887], undated.
Some papers of Hew Morrison, Fellow of the Society of Antiquities Scotland, Edinburgh City Librarian, and editor of ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ by Rob Donn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14953-14955
Dates:
1882-1926, undated.
Ten letters between John Hill Watson and Duncan C Mactavish.
File
Identifier: Acc.9452
Scope and Contents
With two press cuttings and Watson`s bookplate concerning a copy of the 1694 edition of the Psalms in Gaelic.
Dates:
1928-1932.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.
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.
File
Identifier: MS.9044
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1907-1909.
Two letters, 1835, of Marion Trotter of Blackford to Margaret Douglas.
File
Identifier: Acc.8314
Scope and Contents
With associated press cutting, 1938.
Dates:
1835, 1938.