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Letter of G Johnston enclosing a photograph of his father, George P Johnston.
Letter of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Catherine Hunter.
With a photograph of Carlyle and three other Welsh family letters.
Letter of Joseph Stanley, Brighton to J. Greig, London.
Includes photograph of Grove Lodge, Brighton.
Letter of Siegfried Sassoon to Alice V. Stuart.
Letter, 1961, of Siegried Sassoon to Alice V. Stuart concerning his collection `Paths to Peace` (Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960), with A. V. Stuart`s copy of the book (number 152 of a limited edition of 500); with a photograph of John Masefield, signed and dedicated to A. V. Stuart.
Letter of Thomas Carlyle to Mrs Stanley.
With a photograph of Carlyle.
Letter of William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, to Marie Gilroy, Pennart Publications.
Concerns an enclosed photograph.
Letters, 1841-1851, and photographic copies thereof, of the Earl of Crawford, styled Lord Lindsay, to James Dennistoun, and letters of Sir Coutts Lindsay and John Murray; with letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.
With photographs of Dennistoun`s letters, and 12 letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.
Letters, 1952-1995, of Fred Urquhart to Lewis Davies, with copies of some of Davies`s replies; also a letter and draft reply, 1996, relating to Urquhart`s death. With 4 photographs of Fred Urquhart and others.
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families, relating to the First World War and life in Australia.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.
The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).
Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.
With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.
Letters of Captain Alexander Lindsay to his brother, Thomas Lindsay, merchant, Montrose. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.
27 letters and one bill of lading of Alexander Lindsay to Thomas Lindsay. The letters are written from ports visited by Alexander Linsday during his career as a sea captain. Places visited include Calcutta, Madras, the Cape of Good Hope, Havre de Graca, Hamburg, as well as Portsmouth and London. One letter tells of his imprisonment by the French and an attack by pirates. With a photograph of a portrait of Alexander Lindsay.
Letters of Chrissie Jamieson, emigrant in New Zealand, to Peggy Greig, and a related photograph.
Chrissie and Walter Jamieson lived at Dover and Torquay during WWI. Walter was in the army during the Great War. In March 1919 they sailed on the KMS `Tanui` through the Panama Canal to New Zealand. By 1926 they lived at 42 Calgary St, Auckland. They had four sons, two of whom, Eric and Ian, born March 1926, were twins. After demob Walter Jamieson went back to housebuilding, because the farms being offered to former servicement were poor land.
Letters of Dot and Biddy, emigrants in New Zealand, to Peggy Greig, and related photographs.
Dot and Biddy appear to have been teachers in New Zealand. Their first address in 1908 was Anderson`s Bay, Dunedin. In 1909 they were living at 9 Draper Rd, Richmond, Christchurch and then at 49 Worcester St, Linwood, Christchurch.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.
Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.
Letters of Jemima Barr, emigrant to Rhodesia, to her friend Margaret Proudfoot Greig, and a photograph album.
Letters of Lieutenant (Alexander) Nigel Trotter, 3rd Battalion Royal Scots.
Letters of Lieutenant Colonel John Bruce Wood, and some of his brothers, to their brother, William Wood, from the Western Front and the Dardanelles during the First World War.
Inlcudes photographs of the Wood brothers.
Letters of Muriel Spark to Frances Cowell with related correspondence and photographs.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Letters of the Reverend Dr James Dalzell and his wife, Elizabeth.
With photographs of the Gordon Memorial Mission, Natal.
Letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Sylvia Thompson; with photographs and artwork.
Sylvia Thompson became friendly with the Grahams in the 1980s. From a nursing background, she became a great source of practical help to the couple during W S Graham`s last years, which were dogged by ill-health. The great affection in which she was held by the Grahams is evident in the letters, and in the various gifts of photographs and drawings.