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Papers and correspondence of literary figures.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8693
Scope and Contents

Includes:

inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University

"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham

"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson

With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).

Dates: 1890-1942.

Papers and letters of George Wade.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6666/1-3
Scope and Contents

Including:

circa 50 letters and other documents, 1736-1737, concerning the Porteous Riots and subsequent events, compiled by Wade

circa 200 letters to and copies of letters, 1745-1746, of Wade, concerning the Jacobite Rising.

Dates: 1736-1737, 1745-1746.

Papers concerning Peebleshire.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4300
Scope and Contents

Including typescript extracts from a diary, and church records.

Dates: 19th century.

Papers concerning sea laws.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4286
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed items.

Dates: early 18th century.

Papers concerning the Erskine family, Earls of Mar.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7342
Scope and Contents

Including George Erskine, "The Genealogie of the Family of Mar and Erskine..." (? 1705).

Dates: 1635-1831.

Papers concerning the military service of Chilton Lind Addison-Smith.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6030
Scope and Contents

Concerning military service while serving with the 17th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion, 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade and 2nd Battalion Sherwood Forresters, 71st Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force, France.

Dates: 1916-1917.

Papers concerning "The Naturalist`s Library", edited by Sir William Jardine.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6788
Scope and Contents

Containing original drawings, watercolours, working proofs and prints.

Dates: 1833-1845.

Papers concerning the visit the Marquess of Salisbury to Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6032
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, accounts and press cuttings.

Dates: 1882.

Papers concerning Zimbabwe.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9280
Scope and Contents

With papers, 1979-1980, on the security situation in Zimbabwe

Six albums of newspaper cuttings on Zimbabwe, with an index

typescrip of "Go Forth", a history of the Minsitry of Internal Affairs in Rhodesia.

Dates: 1979-1980 and undated.

Papers of Alexander McLellan.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13409
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1944-2012.

Papers of and concerning Charles McCall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11494
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, art exhibition catalogues, press cuttings and photograph albums.

Dates: circa 1936-1995.

Papers of and concerning Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson and the Royal Flying Corps.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9339
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, 1916-1917, two albums of press cuttings, 1914-1917, and a privately printed memoir, 1931.

Dates: 1916-1931.

Papers of and relating to the artists Beatrice Huntington and William MacDonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14369/1-39
Scope and Contents Beatrice Huntington was born in 1889 in St. Andrews to Dr William Huntington, surgeon, and Charlotte Huntington, née Bowles, daughter of Joseph Bowles of Quebec City. She was educated in St Andrews before attending art schools in Paris and Munich between 1906-1911. She began exhibiting in 1916 and became an active member of the Dundee Art Society and the Society of Scottish Artists. Influenced by Modernist art styles, she experimented with Cubism in her portraits, including 'A Muleteer from...
Dates: 1864-2015.

Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259

Papers of James Lauder Davidson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13567
Scope and Contents The collection comprises several manuscript and typescript diaries which illustrate James Lauder Davidson’s experiences during his time in Burma, before and after WWII, and his military involvement in the conflict. Of particular interest are the earlier and later diaries, as well as the diary charting his escape into China. The collection also includes two photographic albums. The first one (item 2 in the collection) includes original photographs taken by Davidson. Most of them include...
Dates: 1938-1947

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

Papers of Richard Dark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17
Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

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Albums. 148
Photograph albums. 84
Letters. Correspondence. 56
Correspondence. 41
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 40
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Photographs. 37
Drawings. Visual works. 23
Diaries. 21
Autograph albums. 20
Manuscripts. 18
Notes. 18
Poetry. 16
Copies. Derivative objects. 11
Watercolours. Paintings. 11
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 10
Notebooks. 10
Typescripts. 10
Sketches 9
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 8
Essays. 7
Maps. Cartographic materials. 7
Postcards. 7
Sketches. 7
Articles. 6
Documents. 6
First World War (1914-1918). 6
Portraits. 6
Accounts. 5
Annotations. 5
Books 5
Drafts. Documents. 5
Genealogies. 5
Histories. 5
Microfilms. 5
Minute books. 5
Autographs (manuscripts). 4
Commonplace books. 4
Lectures. 4
Legal documents. 4
Lists. 4
Novels. 4
Plans (orthographic projections). 4
Prints. Visual works 4
Reports 4
Scrapbooks 4
Signatures. Names. 4
Travel journals 4
Certificates 3
Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000. 3
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 3
Memoirs. 3
Newsletters. Serials. 3
Obituaries. 3
Photocopies. 3
Printed materials. Object genre. 3
Programmes 3
Scrapbooks. 3
Second World War (1939-1945). 3
Sermons 3
Songs. Musical compositions. 3
Visitors' books. 3
Architectural drawings. 2
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 2
Bindings. Binding components. 2
Biographies. 2
CD-ROMs. 2
Caricatures. 2
Devon. Europe - United Kingdom - England. County. Longitude: -3.8167. Latitude: 50.7333. 2
Drawings. Visual works 2
Engravings. Prints. 2
Ephemera. 2
Excerpts. 2
Extracts. 2
Game Books. 2
Guide Books. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Inscriptions. 2
Invitations. 2
Journals. Periodicals. 2
Kelso. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.4167. Latitude: 53.6000. 2
Landscapes. Representations. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Letter books. 2
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 2
Magazines. periodicals. 2
Memorandums. 2
Menu cards. 2
Menus. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Mountaineering. 2
Oban. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. Inhabited place. Longitude: -5.4667. Latitude: 56.4167. 2
Offprints. 2
Palestine. Middle East. Historical region. Longitude: 35.3333. Latitude: 31.9167. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Pencil drawings. 2
Programmes. 2
Prospectuses 2
Reviews. Document genre 2
Scores 2
Scores. 2
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Language
English 200
Undetermined 48
Chinese 1
Multiple languages 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 5
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Smith, Chilton Lind Addison-, Writer to the Signet, 1875-1955 3
Wilson, George Washington, miniature painter and photographer, 1823-1893 3
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 2
Reid, Walter, seal engraver in Paris and Edinburgh, fl 1838-1886 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Scottish Youth Hostels Association 2
Valentine, James, engraver and photographer, 1815-1879 2
Agnew, William Lockett, art dealer, 1858-1918 1
Allan, Andrew, artist, 1863-1942 1
An Comunn Gàidhealach 1
Anderson, James, Culloden, fl 1952 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 5th (Service) Bat 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1
Baird, James, of Little Fiddes and Byth, Advocate, d 1655 1
Bankes, Florence, 1854-1947 (artist) 1
Barns-Graham, Jean Meldrum, 1870-1948 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Baxter, William Edward, traveller and author, 1825-1890 1
Bell, Richard, author of "My Strange Pets and other Memories of Country Life", 1833-1909 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blackwood, William (publisher, and founder of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine") 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Book of Me Group 1
Boothby, Eliza, compiler of an album of verses and drawings, fl 1835 1
Boothby, Robert John Graham, Baron Boothby, politician, 1900-1986. 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Scotland 1
Brown, Alexander, medical missionary, Livingstonia, fl 1900-1930 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, James, Minister of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, ? 1724-1786 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Bruce, William Speirs, explorer, 1867–1921 1
Buchanites, Irvine, Scotland, religious sect 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cameran Photographic Society (fl. 1894-1917) 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 1
Campbell, Jean Davidson, missionary in India, fl 1900-1940 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Campbell, family 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carr, Anna Margaret, artist, fl 1838-1859 1
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Prime Minister) 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Charlotte Chapel Sabbath School, Edinburgh 1
Christie, Dugald (Medical missionary) 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Cocozza, Enrico (filmmaker) 1
Cookesley, Margaret Deborah Murray, 1844-1927 (née Garland, artist, wife of Edward Murray Cookesley) 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Corrie, Anna, singer, wife of Haydn Corri, pianist and composer, née Adams (Adami), 1800-1867. 1
Cottam, Eliza Letitia, née Ironside, fl 1825-1845 1
Cottam, John Tatham, relative of Eliza L, née Ironside, fl 1812 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Craig-Brown, family : collector 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Cummings, family, of Altyre 1
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 1
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 1
Currie, Jenny M B, Gaelic singer, 1892-1974 1
Dalrymple, Alexander, Kinseathill, fl 1894-1906 1
Daniel, George, compiler of album including note by Robert Burns, fl 1850: collector 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, James Lauder, forester, 1916-1992 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Douglas, family 1
Dreschfeld, Violet Jennie, 1890-1975 (sculptor) 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Durand, Sir Edward Law, 1st Baronet, colonial administrator, 1845-1920 1
Durris Red Cross Hospital, Kincardineshire 1
Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 1
Elliot, George Francis Scott, botanist, 1862-1934 1
Elliot, James Scott, Calcutta merchant, d 1880 1
Elliot, Sir Walter, Knight, East India Company servant and archaeologist, 1803-1887 1
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