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Microfilm of photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1577
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Album, 1917, undated, of photographs of Blackpool, the voyage to South Africa with the RAMC, and wartime scenes in Cape Town and Durban (Acc.12016/1); Album, 1919-1922, of mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, and in Britain (Acc.12016/5);Album entitled ‘Chogoria – the early days. The start to 12 October 1922’ (Acc.12016/6);Album entitled ‘Chogoria early days, 1922-1930’ (Acc.12016/7); Album...
Dates: [1917-1996.]

Microfilm of talks, [?1965-?1969], of Sir James B Thomson; photographs, 19th century-[before 1987], of and concerning John MacArthur Russell and his family; and, an account, 1783, of East Indies caves.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.978
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Typescripts of talks, [?1965-?1969], of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia (Acc.9426);

Photographs, 19th century-[before 1987], of and concerning John MacArthur Russell and his family (Acc.9483);

'Account of the Caves of Kennery, Ambola, and Elephanta in the East Indies; in a letter from a gentleman in Bombay to his friend in England, 1783' (MS.3966).

Dates: 1783-[before 1987].

Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.

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Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates: 1784-1966, undated.

Minutes, correspondence and other papers of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, mainly records of the Scottish Liberal Party.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11765/1-110
Scope and Contents

Minute books and other papers from the Edinburgh headquarters office of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, consisting mainly of older records of the Scottish Liberal Party prior to its union with the Social Democratic Party and the creation of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and including records of the Scottish Liberal Club and the Scottish Reform Club.

Dates: 1855-1987, undated.

Minutes, correspondence, financial papers, photographs and other papers of the Scottish Craft Centre.

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Identifier: Acc.10729/1-51
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning the closure of the Scottish Craft Centre, the move from Acheson House in 1990, and the proposed Scottish Craft Council, 1991.

Dates: 1955-1991.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

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.

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.

Nine letters of John Brown.

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Identifier: Acc.6882
Scope and Contents

With two drawings by Brown, four letters from his sister, and associated photographs.

Dates: 1875 and undated.

Nine letters (one a photocopy) of the Reverend Dr Robert Laws, missionary in Malawi.

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Identifier: Acc.11242
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters of the Reverend Malcolm Moffat, missionary in Zambia, to Alexander Gill, jeweller, Aberdeen, together with photograph of a baptismal bowl.

Dates: 1888-1928

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

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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.

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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, 1846-1983 and undated, of and concerning James F Dickie, fiddler.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10389
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, photographs and music.

With letters and music, 1888-1924 and undated, of James Scott Skinner, and music, 1935-1968 and undated, of John Murdoch Henderson.

Dates: 1846-1983 and undated.

Papers, 1882-1947 and undated, of Sir Edward L Durand, 1st Baronet, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10838
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, 1787-1884 and undated, of the Percy and other related families.

Dates: 1787-1947 and undated.

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Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 7
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 7
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Edinburgh International Festival 5
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Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 5
Wilson, George Washington, miniature painter and photographer, 1823-1893 5
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 4
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 4
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 4
Edinburgh International Festival Society 4
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 4
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 4
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 4
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 4
Soutar, William (poet) 4
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 4
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 4
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 3
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, 1892-1978 3
Gunn, Neil Miller, author, 1891-1973 3
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Jackson, Charles d'Orville Pilkington, sculptor, 1887-1973 3
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 3
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 3
National Library of Scotland 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 2
Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 2
Braehead Mountaineering Club 2
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 2
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 2
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 2
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 2
Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin') (1854-1933) 2
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 2
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 2
Foster, Margaret, Assistant Secretary to the Royal Scottish Academy, fl 1925-1995 2
Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch 2
Geddes, Sir Patrick, Knight, sociologist, 1854-1932 2
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 2
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Haldane, John Scott, physiologist and philosopher, 1860-1936 2
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 2
Hamilton, William Winter, politician, 1917-2000 2
Hart, Alexander, Bonnymuir radical, 1794-1876 2
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 2
Irvine, Archibald Clive, medical missionary, Kenya, 1893-1974 2
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 2
Johnston, George Pyper, bookseller, Edinburgh, d 1938 2
Low, Bet, artist, 1924-2007 2
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 2
MacGilleMhoire, Dòmhnall R (poet and shopkeeper, Scalpay, Isle of Harris) 2
MacGregor, James, Minister of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, 1832-1910: recipient 2
Macarthur, family, Nairn, Scotland, Manitoba, Canada 2
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 2
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 2
Maclean, John, revolutionary socialist, 1879-1923 2
McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Oliver, George, emigrant, 1900-1973 2
Oliver, Jane, emigrant, 1895-1977 2
Oliver, Peter Roderick, Lieutenant-Colonel, mountaineer, 1907-1945 2
Petrarca, Francesco, poet, 1304-1374 2
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 2
Raeburn, Harold Andrew (mountaineer) (1865-1926) 2
Russell, Stanley Livingstone (filmmaker) 2
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Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 2
Slessor, Mary, missionary in Calabar, 1848-1915 2
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 2
Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 2
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 2
Thomson, David, author of "Nairn in Darkness and Light", 1914-1988 2
University of St Andrews 2
Valentine, James, engraver and photographer, 1815-1879 2
Wainwright, Jacob, follower of Livingstone, d 1892 2
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