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Letters to Sir Philip and Lady Trotter of Mainhouse.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9998
Scope and Contents
Letters from family friends in the Borders, and from army colleagues of Sir Philip, including several letters from South Africa.
Dates:
Undated
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates:
1962-2010.
Memoirs and photograph albums of Lieutenant Colonel William Burton Stewart, army officer and politician.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13934/1-10
Content Description
Four volumes containing the unpublished handwritten memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel William Burton Stewart, circa 1916-1936, along with three volumes of typescript copies of the memoirs, and two family photograph albums, circa 1898-1919. The memoirs cover Stewart’s life from his birth in Glasgow in 1872, his schooling at Loretto, Edinburgh, education at Brasenose, Oxford, and subsequent travels with Malcolm Pilkington. The friends travelled widely, including India, China, Japan and...
Dates:
1898-1936
"Memorandum Book concerning the Earl of Kinnoulls [sic] Estate in Perthshire".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8074
Dates:
1719-1726.
Memorial album of Charlotte Chapel Sabbath School, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7636
Dates:
1874-1887.
Microfilm of album, ?1780-?1782, of sketches of figures and scenes in the Peninsula and France, by Mrs Mary Graham; and, journal, July-August 1792, of Thomas Graham, of his return journey through France after the death of Mrs Graham.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1346-1347
Dates:
?1780-1792.
Microfilm of album of photographs taken during 'A summer cruise in the Arctic Regions' by the ship ‘Erik’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.818
Dates:
1876
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556-558
Dates:
[?1765]-1918.
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 Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-18 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1294-1311
Dates:
[?1812-?1854.]
Military material, chiefly relating to the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2879-2880
Dates:
1704-1722.
Miscellaneous autograph letters, official documents, signatures, etc., pasted into an album.
File
Identifier: MS.3873
Scope and Contents
There are a number of letters to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767), which relate largely to his antiquarian interests. Most of the other letters are also of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the writers include noblemen, churchmen, public servants, and prominent literary figures.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1879-1887
Dates:
1623-19th century.
Music belonging to Mary Grant, Cullen House.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11020
Scope and Contents
Includes pieces by Handel, San Martini, the Earl of Keely, and various songs.
Dates:
circa 1750.
Music owned by Anna Corrie, daughter-in-law of the Edinburgh band composer Domenico Corri.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12073
Dates:
circa 1814.
Newspaper cuttings compiled by James Logie Robertson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6664
Dates:
1881, 1917.
Notes, orders and related material of Chilton Lind Addison-Smith, 2nd in Command, in connection with a raid on enemy trenches by the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Forresters, British Expeditionary Force, France.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6029
Dates:
May 1917.
Original manuscript, notes, corrections and insertions, of sir James Mackintosh, "Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7405
Dates:
1830.
"Our Time Together" an album/artist`s book created by 16 victims of domestic abuse who formed the Book of Me Group for the a project supported by NLS, Women`s Aid and Outreach Long and Wide.
File
Identifier: Acc.12622
Scope and Contents
Inlcudes published pamphlet "I am Me; I am Free".
Dates:
2005-2007.
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.
Papers, 1909-1919, concerning the Men`s Institute of St Ninian`s (Episcopal) Cathedral, Perth.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7526
Scope and Contents
Including minute book, account book and letters.
With seven letters, 1855, 1883-1888, to Charles Wordsworth.
Dates:
1855-1919.
Papers, 1936-1958, of William Oliver Petrie, missionary doctor and superintendent of hospitals, Malawi.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13582
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1936-1958, of William Oliver Petrie, missionary doctor and superintendent of hospitals, Malawi.William Oliver Petrie (1913-1998) was born at East Manse, Loanhead, Midlothian, the son of Rev. James Petrie and Mrs Cecilia Petrie. Rev. Petrie was the minister of the United Free Church at Loanhead. William was educated at Loanhead Primary School and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh. He graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1936, and worked for a time at...
Dates:
1936-1958
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents
D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates:
1902-1970.