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43 letters addressed to David Roberts.
Addressed to Roberts in London, Spain, Egypt and India by correspondents in Scotland and Spain concerning artistic and social matters.
"A Skylight on the Past", copy of a typescript of letters and memoranda of the families of Pemberton in County Durham and Wallace in Nairn, compiled by Nisa Laing.
Contains material concerning India and the First World War.
Account of a quarrel and the resulting duel between two officers of the 78th Highlanders near Ahmadnagar, India.
Includes statement by the surviving party.
Account of "An Adventure with Bengal Dacoits" by Samuel Wauchope.
With seven photographs.
Autograph manuscripts and typescripts of James Ramsay MacDonald entitled "Parliament and Revolution" and "India: Imprsessions and Opinions".
Copy letter, 1986, of Margaret Tait, together with copies of letters, 1863 and 1897, of her grand-uncle, William Archer Porter, and her father, John Guthrie Tait.
Letters concern Indian matters.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Major-General Stair Park Dalrymple.
Concerns Dalrymple`s claims for compensation from the Rajah of Tanjore, and other matters of military and family interest.
Correspondence and papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount, on Indian affairs.
Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.
Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.
With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.
Eight decorative presentation copies of farewell adresses to Miss Rachel Paterson, a missionary of the United Free Chruch in Ajmer, Rajputana, India.
Game book of Duncan Campbell of Smith Hall.
Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-5, of James Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma during the Second World War.
Journal of Lucy Lockhart Galloway.
Describes travels in India.
Lecture notes and photographs on the life of Mary Scott, missionary.
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.
Letter of Alexander Finlay to Janet Campbell.
Describes a visit to Poona, India.
Letter of Jane Dunlop to William Dunlop in India.
Concerns social and domestic matters, but also mentions the later work of Sir Walter Scott and the possible loss by fire of letters of Burns to Mrs Dunlop.
Letters, 1814-1817, of Lieutenant James MacAlpine, 8th King`s Royal Irish Hussars.
Letters and copies of letters to Hamish Brown.
Includes Don Johnson`s account of a journey from Land`s End to John O`Groats, 1994, text of a talk by Sir Alasdair T Munro on "Hugh Munro and his Tables", 1994, and Nigel Springett`s account of a visit to India, 1989.
Letters of Miss M G C Neilson, written while working in India.
Letters of William Crichton Fyfe, Free Church missionary in Calcutta.
Maps of India and of Bengal of and for Arthur Geddes.
With notes and papers of Geddes.
Papers of Alexander McLellan.
The papers comprise a scrapbook containing statements of bank accounts and miscellaneous financial records, 1944-1946, concerning his service during WWII; two photographic albums, 1949, of a student debating tour in India with some news cuttings and other papers explaining the purpose of the visit; an auto-biography of Stanley Jenkins, one of McLellan’s fellow students during his Indian journey; Alexander McLellan`s curriculum vitae and obituary.
Papers of and relating to Michael Moncrieff Stuart.
Mainly concerning his life in India and his research into Scotish-Indian history.
Papers of Dr Robert Maclagan Gorrie.
Includes typescripts, cuttings and offprints concerning forestry and soil erosion, especially in India.