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Correspondence, notes, photographs and audiotapes of Dr Alice G. Vines relating to her book `The MacDonald Women: Margaret and Ishbel`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13629/1-21
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, research papers, photographs and audio tapes, 1904-1994, of Dr. Alice Gilmore Vines (1923-2009) relating to her PhD thesis on Margaret Ethel Gladstone MacDonald (1870-1911) and Ishbel MacDonald (1903-1982), James Ramsay MacDonald’s wife and daughter.Dr. Vines collected this material in the course of her research for an intended biography of the two women. Over a number of summers she visited Ishbel in Lossiemouth and corresponded with her. Unfortunately, she had...
Dates:
1904-1994
Correspondence of Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Baron Murray of Elibank and correspondence and papers of his brother, Arthur Cecil Murray, Viscount Elibank.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8801-8824
Dates:
1895-1962, undated.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Dates:
1884-1936, undated.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Correspondence, photographs and antiquarian collections on Pictish symbol-stones, of Cosmo Gordon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.272- is now Acc.12803.
Dates:
20th century.
Correspondence, reports, research notes and other papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, scientist and researcher.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9010/1-247
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and research papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, Scientific Consultant, 1914-1985. Although there is some personal correspondence, the papers relate mainly to Dr Woodward’s scientific career, including his work as a scientific civil servant, 1930-1947, at the Chemical Defence Research Establishment, Sutton Oak, on chemical warfare and in particular on mustard gas, at the Ministry of Supply, Leamington Spa, on camouflage research, and at the Ministry of Production, where his...
Dates:
1914-1985.
Drafts, proofs, notes, and research materials of Tom Pow, including related correspondence and other literary papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12950/1-59
Dates:
[1915]-2007, undated.
Further papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14268/1-42
Scope and Contents
Comprising Lord Macmillan's commonplace books with notes on his scholarly and personal reading; papers on his professional service and appointments, including a collection of press cuttings documenting his career; and fragments of correspondence and literary drafts, with photographs and family ephemera.
Dates:
1887-1952.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly relating to his historical research.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12488
Dates:
1933-2003.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas, mainly concerning his research into Rudolph Hess.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12412
Dates:
1970-2004.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8924/1-45
Dates:
1511-1951, undated.
Lecture notes and photographs on the life of Mary Scott, missionary.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13406
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes and reminiscences by Mrs Martha Steedman, 2012, on Miss Mary Scott, missionary of Kalimpong and Sikkim. Page 4 of the notes was not received from the donor. The notes are accompanied by early 21st century photographs of the school with which Miss Scott was so heavily involved in establishing at Gangtok and its surrounding area.
Dates:
2012
Letter, 1860, recommending the emigration of James Marshall (1822 - 1867) to New Zealand, with family history notes and copies of photographs, 2011.
File
Identifier: Acc.13283
Dates:
1860-2011
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.176
Dates:
1884-1969.
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.
Manuscript score, 1979, of Ronald Stevenson`s "Violin Concerto".
File
Identifier: Acc.10774
Scope and Contents
Includes note, 1992, of Yehudi Menuhin and three photographs taken at the first performance, Glasgow, 1992.
Dates:
1979-1992.
Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.
Dates:
1896-circa 1976.
Microfilm of biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1024-1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Microfilm of "Bradford's photographs of Greenland, arranged as illustrations of 'Frost and Fire' [(Edinburgh, 1863)] by J. F. Campbell, June, 1871".
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.782
Dates:
1869.
Miscellaneous purchases.
File
Identifier: MS.20766
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Correspondence, 1802-1815, undated, of and concerning R B Sheridan (including letters of Sir John Macpherson and Samuel Whitbread, and material on the Drury Lane Theatre) and his son Thomas (including descriptions of a journey to Edinburgh and of Madeira); a poem, 1772, of Sheridan to his future wife; and various notes and press cuttings, 1788-1914, undated, on Sheridan and his works (folio 1);
(ii) Letters, 1922-1928, of Sir James G Frazer to William...
Dates:
1772-1930, undated.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.