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Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents

The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988, undated.

Notes, compiled circa 1978, of Robin Welsh on the Scottish Lawn Tennis Championship and sporting photographs of rugby, tennis and golf interest.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12699
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Freddie Tait, 1895, Liberton Lawn Tennis Club, Ladies` Team, 1928 and 1932, Jimmy Connors, 1989, and Scotland`s rugby team, ca 1950.

Dates: 1895-1989.

Notes of evidence, 1905, to be given by the Reverend Dr William Miller, in the Free Church of Scotland case.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8285
Scope and Contents

With four addresses, 1895, 1901-1902 and undated, to Miller, and a photograph of him.

Dates: 1895-1905 and undated.

Notes of M F Orford, concerning James Morgan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7497
Scope and Contents

With two photographs.

Dates: 1979.

Papers and correspondence of Ronald W Clark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9589
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, drafts, photographs, pamphlets and press cuttings.

Dates: 1948-1987.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers of and concerning Joseph Hislop.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7080
Scope and Contents

Including notes, sketches, typescripts of broadcast talks, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and concert and opera programmes.

Dates: 1900-1975.

Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10555/1-163
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1955-1969 and undated.

Papers of Handel Kay, municipal engineer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10350
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Kay`s professional career and the town of Denholm, Roxburghshire.

Dates: 1919-1979.

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

Papers of John Murdoch Henderson.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21669-21713
Scope and Contents The papers consist of the transcriptions, arrangements, and research notes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson between the mid 1920s and his death in 1972. Henderson's particular interest was in music for the Scottish fiddle, and in addition to extensive work on the older sources of such music, he was an authority on the compositions of his contemporaries, who seem frequently to have sought his advice. In addition to his own material, the collection contains many autograph compositions of...
Dates: 17th century-1972.

Papers of Magnus Magnusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

Papers of Philip D Thomson mostly relating to Hibernian Football Club.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10691/1-105
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

Dates: 1933-1993.

Papers of Sir Robert Grieve.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13523
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, 1943-1964 mostly relating to his work as a town and regional planner, of Professor Sir Robert Grieve (1910-1995), Chief Planner, Scottish Office, 1960-4, Professor of Town and Regional Planning at Glasgow University, 1964-74, and the first Chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board, 1965-70. Many of the files relate to his work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan (1944-6).

Dates: 1943-1964

Papers of the first Earl Haig.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3155

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 Trevor Clark, colonial civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and Soloman Islands.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12777
Scope and Contents

Includes research notes, photographs and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1940-1979.

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Notes. 79
Correspondence. 51
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Articles. 12
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Poetry. 10
Research notes 10
Speeches. Documents. 10
Minutes. Administrative records. 9
Biographies. 8
Photocopies. 8
Research notes. 8
Documents. 7
Lists. 7
Printed materials. Object genre. 7
Lecture notes. 6
Lectures. 6
Publications. 6
Reports. 6
Reports 5
Accounts. 4
Drawings. Visual works. 4
Extracts. 4
Financial records. 4
Histories. 4
Legal documents. 4
Memorandums. 4
Scores. 4
Sketches. 4
Albums. 3
Annotations. 3
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Essays. 3
Excerpts. 3
Genealogies. 3
Leaflets. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
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Photograph albums. 3
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Snapshots. 3
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Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 2
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Catalogues. 2
Certificates. 2
Charters 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Commonplace books. 2
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Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 2
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 2
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Pamphlets. 2
Parts. Scores. 2
Professional papers. 2
Programmes 2
Reviews. Document genre. 2
Scores 2
Scrapbooks 2
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Slides. Photographs. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
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Admiralty charts. 1
Annual reports. 1
Appointment books. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Bibles. 1
Book industries and trade 1
Booklets. Information artefacts. 1
Broadcasts. Events. 1
Cadenzas. Musical compositions. 1
Cartes-de-visite. Card photographs. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Cello music. 1
Certificates 1
Choral music. 1
Constitutions. 1
Contracts. Agreements. 1
Course work. 1
Declarations. 1
Denholm. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.6833. Latitude: 55.4500. 1
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Language
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Undetermined 29
Multiple languages 2
Polish 1
Russian 1
 
Names
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 3
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 1
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Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 1
Bell, William, great grand-nephew of Henry Bell, builder of the "Comet", d 1978 1
Borrow, George Henry (writer and traveller) (1803-1881) 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Children's Overseas Reception Board, Scottish Branch 1
Chrystal, Francis M, member of the Old Edinburgh Club, d 1944 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
Clan Mackay Society 1
Clark, Alastair Trevor, colonial civil servant, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Soloman Islands, 1923-2005 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Connors, James Scott, tennis player, b 1952 1
Copeman, R W, President of The Stereoscopic Society, 1861-1928. 1
Cunninghame Graham, family, of Gartmore and Ardoch 1
Drummond, William, 1st Viscount Strathallan, c 1617-1688 1
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Foxon, David Fairweather, bibliographer, 1923-2001 1
Fraser, Alexander Campbell (philosopher) 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Grey, Albert Henry George, 4th Earl Grey (succ 1894), Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, 1851-1917 1
Grieve, James, Clerk of Works, 1863-1939 1
Grieve, Robert, Sir, Knight (Professor Emeritus, Town and Country Planning, University of Glasgow) (1910-1995) 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Harper, Robin Charles Moreton (politician) (b 1940) 1
Hess, Rudolf Walter Richard, deputy of Adolf Hitler, 1894-1987 1
Hibernian Football Club, Edinburgh 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Inglis, Euphemia Amy Maria, pseudonym Innes Adair, d 1925 1
Insh, George Pratt, historian, b 1883 1
Johnston, James Frederick Junor (Major-General) 1
Kay, Handel, municipal engineer, fl 1906-1987 1
Kun, Béla, revolutionary, 1886-1939 1
Liberton Lawn Tennis Club, Ladies' Team, tennis club 1
Lillie, Robert Alexander, art collector, fl 1907-1977 1
MacDonald, Ishbel Allan, Labour activist, 1903-1982 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 1
MacDonald, Margaret Ethel Gladstone, socialist and feminist, 1870-1911 1
MacGregor, George Hogarth Carnaby, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism, University of Glasgow, 1892-1963 1
MacKay, Benjamin Skene, trade union organiser, 1883-1930 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn (political scientist and politician) 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Macmillan, Hugh Pattison, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy, 1873-1952 1
Maddocks, George, great grandson of John Stevenson, radical, fl 1974 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
Maxwell, Sir William, Knight, President of the International Co-operative Alliance, 1841-1929 1
McIntyre, Robert Douglas, President, Scottish National Party, 1913-1998 1
Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin, violinist and conductor, 1916-1999 1
Miller, William, Principal of Madras Christian College, 1838-1923 1
Miller, William, Principal of Madras Christian College, 1838-1923: recipient 1
Morgan, James, Melbourne, journalist, formerly in Aberdeen, d 1901 1
Morton, Andrew Queen, Minister of Culross Abbey, b 1919 1
Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 1
Orford, M F, Melbourne, fl 1979 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Powell, Reginald (physicist) 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 1
Rawlins, Francis Ian Gregory, Scientific Adviser to Trustees of National Gallery, 1895-1969 1
Ritchie, James Spence, former keeper of manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, Stepfather of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston. 1
Ritchie, Margaret Macrae Ward (née Junor, then Johnston, mother of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston) 1
Scott, Mary Harriet Hepburne, Missionary, Kalimpong and Sikkim, 1877-1964 1
Simpson, Grant G, Reader in Scottish History, University of Aberdeen, fl 1967-2012 1
Somerville, Alexander George, missionary, 1917-1999 1
St Giles' Cathedral, Thistle Chapel, Edinburgh 1
Stereoscopic Society 1
Stevenson, John, radical, fl 1820-1847 1
Stevenson, John, radical, fl 1820-1847: recipient 1
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 1
Strachan, Michael, writer, b 1919 1
Tait, Frederick Guthrie, golfer, 1870-1900 1
Thomson, Philip D, co-author of "100 Years of Hibs", fl 1992-2005 1
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 1
University of Edinburgh 1
University of St Andrews 1
Vines, Alice Gilmore, Dr, historian, 1923-2009 1
Watt, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-, Knight, developer of radar, 1892-1973 1
Weir, Thomas [Tom] (explorer, journalist and photographer) 1
Welsh, Robin, Secretary of the International Curling Federation, 1919-2006 1
Welsh, Robin, Secretary of the International Curling Federation, 1919-2006: collector 1
Winchester, 1st Earl of, d 1219 1
Woodward, Foster Neville, scientific consultant, 1919-1985 1
Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich, Head of the Communist International, 1883-1936 1
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