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Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Microfilm of xerox of a manuscript music book containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane.
Minute book, 1954-1961, of the National Union of Mine Workers, Scotland, Brora Branch.
Includes photocopies of 11 share certificates in Highland Colliery Ltd, the Ross Pit, Brora, 1962-1967, and copies of press cuttings, 1973 and 1988, concerning the closure of the mine.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
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.
Papers of and concerning Lex McLean, mostly relating to his career in entertainment.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Photocopies of a collection of music books.
Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.
Photocopies of family papers of Sir Henry Duncan, and papers concernig the estate of Naughton.
Including family correspondence and letter books.
Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.
Including:
1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)
2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel
3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937
4. commonplace book, circa 1896
5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.
Photocopy of the cashbook, 1856-1858, of John Moffat.
With commonplace book, 18th to 19th century, containing recipes, scientific and professional data, and genealogical material.
Photocopy of the membership, minute, and account book of the Ravel Society of weavers of Darvel, Ayrshire.
The alphabetical list of members of the Society (including many women), gives details of the number of looms possessed by each weaver; each weaver was assessed ½ per year on each loom for the purpose of new ravels, and the repair of old ones. In 1872 the Society merged with the similar local Beaming Machine Society.
Photocopy of "W.R. Kinnear's pipe-music book. A choice selection of strathspeys [and] reels".
It would appear, from notes at folio 3, that W R Kinnear was a piper in the 92nd Foot, and that the music book was written, or at least begun, not long before 1863.
Xerox copy of the minutes of the Ardrossan Branch of the Naitonal Union of Seamen, 24 August 1919-26 March 1964; with a copy of the minutes of a District Meeting in Glasgow, 26 July 1965.
Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.