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Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison
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).
Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.
Photographs and translations of documents concerning the trial of George Buchanan by the Inquisition at Lisbon.
Photographs of five documents connected with the imprisonment, trial, sentence and release of George Buchanan by the Inquisition in Portugal, 16 August 1550 to 28th February 1552, with descriptive notes (typewritten) by Guthrie.
Photographs and typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson for the centenary edition of Scott's letters.
Some of the letters have not been printed.
At the end are catalogues of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and other correspondents, 1927, and to his brother Thomas and the latter's wife, undated.
Photographs, by Hamish Brown, of expeditions from Braehead School, Buckhaven.
Inlcudes photograph of the Bass Rock from MV Gardyloo and related printed material.
Photographs of a typescript diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward L Strutt, entitled 'Three months of 1919'.
The diary covers the period from February to April 1919, during which Edward Strutt arranged the departure of the Emperor Charles and his family from Austria to Switzerland. The diary is preceded by some notes in typescript by the donor (folio i).
Records of the Amalgamated Slaters` Society of Scotland.
Records of the Scottish Working People`s History Trust.
Research papers of John McGill.
Research papers of John McGill primarily related to his research for his books `A History of the House of Loudoun and Associated Families`, 1995 and `On Pursuit of William Wallace`, 1999.
The collection consists of copies of original documents, various typescripts, correspondence with a wide range of heritage institutions and several files of photographs of places in Scotland associated with William Wallace.
Sermons, diaries, correspondence and other papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, medical missionary at Chogoria, Kenya, including some correspondence of members of his family.
Seven volumes of photographs, 1903-1922, and undated, of Himalayan and Alpine subjects, many concerning the 1922 Everest expedition, compiled by Professor George Ingle Finch; and the typescript, 1942-1945, with illustrations by Ronald Searle, of `Mountain Prospect` by R Scott Russell, written in Chargi Jail.
Also included is the printed book `Mountain prospect` (London, 1946), by R Scott Russell.
‘Some notes on the children of Thomas Scott, brother of Sir Walter Scott, and their descendants’, by William Moncreiffe; typed, with photographs of portraits.
Successive typescript, printed and postcard versions of poem of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Net/Planet", and photographs of final version; with a letter to 'Private Eye' and a copy of issue 11 of the 'Private Tutor' magazine.
The contents are as follows:
'Net/Planet' Poem
Original typescript, [circa 1966]
Form 3, 15 December 1966.
Proof of postcard published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, 1968.
2 colour photographs, undated.
Carbon copy of letter to Private Eye concerning 'The Dancers Inherit the Party', 1970.
'Private Tutor', number 11, May 1970.
Typescript biography concerning Helen Baker, missionary in Rajputana, by Margaret Foster.
Includes correspondence and photographs.
Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.
Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.
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 copy of 'Green days in forests. Some recollections and reflections of a timber merchant' by James Begg, with original photographs.
The volume contains photographs, pasted in, of loggers and timber merchants and their horses and machinery at work in and around Glasgow; farm animals and birds; landscapes and scenery encountered in the course of Begg's work; and a portrait photograph of the author's father.
Typescript copy of Michael Allan, "The Tramp" (1975), a novel.
With unrelated photographs and documents.
Typescript diary of a cruise from Leith to North Cape, Norway, with photographs.
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 Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.