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Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.

Dates: 1933-1961, undated.

Photocopies of eight letters of Cecile Walton to Brenda Walton.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6569
Scope and Contents

With sketches and drawings.

Dates: circa 1905-circa 1910.

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

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.

Sketch, 1831, by David Roberts of his design for a new drop scene for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10170
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1863, of Roberts to a Mrs Jones.

Dates: 1831-1863.

Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (1950).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13627
Scope and Contents

Sketches and proof wood engravings of Joan Hassall for `The Collected Poems of Andrew Young` (London: Jonathan Cape, 1950), bound in an album with 4 letters, 1949-1950, of Andrew Young and an undated commentary on the work by Joan Hassall.

Dates: 1938-1950.

Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).

 File
Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.

Dates: 1941-1942.

Two letters of Thomas Faed.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11362
Scope and Contents

One letter is illustrated with a sketch discussing his 1849 painting of Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford.

Includes a sketch, with key, by John Faed of his picture of Shakespeare and his friends at the Mermaid Tavern.

Dates: circa 1849-1900.

‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.

 File
Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates: 1909.

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Language
English 20
Undetermined 16
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Ballantyne, John, artist, 1815-1897 1
Barr (family, Waldingham) 1
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Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Bone, James, journalist, 1872-1962 1
Boyd, Alexander Stuart, artist, 1854-1930 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Calderwood, Anna, sister of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham, fl 1839 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Archibald Douglas, Knight, Captain, Royal Navy, Governor of Burma, 1885-1958 1
Faed, John, painter, 1819-1902 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Gilchrist, Anne Geddes, musical antiquary, 1863-1954 1
Girdwood, John, correspondent of Sir William Orpen, painter, fl 1916: recipient 1
Graham, Douglas Cunninghame, Major, fl 1828-1839 1
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 1
Harvey, Michael, letter cutter and typographer, b 1931 1
Hassall, Joan, artist and wood-engraver, 1906-1988 1
Hodgkinson, James, correspondent of James Hall Nasmyth, engineer, fl 1870: recipient 1
Ingleby, Clement Mansfield (Shakespearean scholar) 1
Kirk, John, Minister of Barry, d 1858. 1
Lindsay, Maurice, poet and writer, 1918-2009 1
MacColl, Dugald Sutherland, painter, 1859-1948 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Maxwell, Sir John Maxwell Stirling-, 10th Baronet, of Pollok, 1866-1956 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McBey, James, painter and etcher, 1883-1959 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994: recipient 1
Nasmyth, James Hall, engineer, 1808-1890 1
Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague, Knight, painter, 1878-1931 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Scots Club, London 1
Shakespeare, William, playwright, 1564-1616 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
Soutar, William, poet, 1898-1943 1
University of St Andrews 1
Walton, Brenda, cousin of Cecile, painter, fl 1905-1910. 1
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 1
Young, Andrew John, poet, 1885-1971 1
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