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11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken
With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.
12 letters to William R Aitken from Helen B Cruickshank (nine), Cedric Thorpe Davie (one) and David Murison (two) on literary matters.
Includes copies of six letters of Aitken.
13 letters to Robert Bruce.
Concerning political and personal matters. Correspondents include Sir Alexander Gray and Sir Stafford Cripps.
With associated testimonials and copies of four letters of Bruce.
15 letters of David Livingstone to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, with three enclosures to the editor of `The Times`, and various envelopes, copies and other items.
17 letters of Neil Gunn to Naomi Mitchison.
Copy of letter, 1944, of Naomi Mitchison to Neil Gunn, and one other letter, undated, of Mitchison to an unknown recipient.
20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.
Includes:
copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson
copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray
correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.
39 letters of Gavin Ewart to Philip Larkin.
On literary and personal matters. With a copy of letter, 1976, of Larkin to Ewart.
40 letters or copies of letters to, or concerning, Sir James Young Simpson and his family.
With copies of three letters, 1866, of Sir James Young Simpson to Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff.
60 letters to Robert H Lundie and his family.
With copy of letter, 1809, of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, enclosing a letter of James Thomson.
73 letters to George Bruce from various correspondents, and copies of 18 letters of Bruce.
On literary matters.
95 letters of André Raffalovich to Charles Ballantyne.
With ten copies of letters, 24 postcards, and two telegrams. Also two letters and a card concerning Raffalovich.
129 letters of C M Grieve to Duncan Glen, on literary matters, and copies of related letters of Glen.
130 Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to James F Hendry.
Includes related copy letters of Hendry.
"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.
About 3400 letters and copies of letters of Angus Calder.
Letters concern literary, academic and personal matters.
African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
“Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee nation, who died in 1775.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
Carbon copy of letter of Seymour de Ricci to Glasgow University Library.
Concerns the work of Colard Mansion.
`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.
The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.
Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).
Circa 100 letters to, and copies of letters of, John Soutar concerning the publication of the works of William Soutar; with an inventory of the library of William Soutar.
Papers of John Soutar, father of the poet William Soutar (1898-1943).
This accession mostly contains letters concerning the publication of William Soutar's works following his death. They are particularly concerned with the editorship of the 'Collected Poems', edited by CM Grieve (London: A Dakers, 1948), and 'Diaries of a
Dying Man', edited by Alexander Scott (Edinburgh: W and R Chambers, 1954).