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Papers of John Maclean, Clydeside agitator, 1909-1923; with material concerning him, 1924-1966.
Papers of Leslie Shirlaw.
Includes research notes and articles on Archibald Pitcairne.
Papers of Maurice Lindsay.
Papers concern "Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance" (Edinburgh, 1980), "Scottish Poetry" and the "Scottish Review".
Papers of Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, comprising letters to him from his first wife, 1923-1926, 1932, 1962, and undated; his step-son, undated; and others, 1924-1959, and undated; also, biographical fragments by his second wife.
Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.
Papers of Samuel Pollock.
Includes three plays and "Cain: a Poetic Biography".
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Photocopies of biography, 1603, of James VI and I, (Archiviolo b. 208, ff 12) and two other documents.
Includes:
instructions, 1538, to a Papal nuncio on visiting Scotland (Archiviolo b. 158, ff 323-324)
letter, 1593, of James VI to the King of Poland concerning the Grand Duke of Tuscany (Scaffalatura 69/51/23).
Photocopies of the Ceol Beag of Duncan Campbell.
With biographical material.
Photocopy, 1969, of Peter Kane, "Catholic Socialist".
Biographcial sketch of John Wheatley.
With four photographs, 1930, of Wheatley`s funeral.
Photocopy of corrected typescript of Malcolm MacDonald`s "Ronald Stevenson: a Musical Biography".
Photocopy of typescript biography of Edwin Sargood Fry.
Photocopy of typescript monograph of James M Alston, "Charles Alston (1685-1760), Professor of Medicine and Botany at Edinburgh".
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.
Poems and letters of the author and journalist William Henry ('Will H') Ogilvie (1869-1963); with photocopies of letters of his wife, Katherine, and other related papers. Included incorrectly is the typescript of "My mither's aunt and other verses" by William Ogilvie (1891-1939), Edinburgh architect.
Proof copy of Dorothy Haig, "The Man I Knew".
Containing numerous passages crossed through or corrected with typed past-overs.
Reel-to-reel audiotapes of the master sound tracks, with transcripts, to three films, on Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean, and Eric Linklater, produced by Films of Scotland.
Reel-to-reel sound recording of the audio from a television programme concerning John Buchan, 'Man of Parts'.
The container has a typescript label affixed, 'Sound tape: John Buchan, Man of parts'.
Research papers of Adriano Galantini on the genealogy and biography of the last members of the Stuart Royal family.
Research papers of Michael McManus for "Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire", (Edinburgh, 2001)
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
Sermons of Adam of Dryburgh and other works.
Six volumes of Wodrow Manuscripts; and two volumes of biographies of ministers entitled "Wodrow`s Collections".
The Wodrow manuscripts are numbers XXV-XXVI and XXVIII-XXXI.
Sketchbook, 1912, of Nigel Trotter.
Containing sketches of architectural subjects in Paris, Chartres, and Rouen.
With biographical note, 1976, on Alec and Alys Trotter, by I F Westlake.