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Notebooks and papers, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes.
Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.
`Off the Military and Equestrial Ordor of St Andrew commonly called the ordor of the Thisle`; an essay, apparently intended as the first chapter of a larger work, on the early history, insignia, etc., of the Order.
The essay ascribes the foundation of the Order to Achaius, and quotes the same authorities as does ‘A System of Heraldry’, volume ii, pages 104-106. It also cites a manuscript by Sir James Balfour.
Paper of William Dods Hogg, read to the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.
Concerning Robert Louis Stevenson`s "Weir of Hermiston".
Paper on Erasmus, read, according to statements on folio 9 verso and the cover, by Thomas Reid, the philosopher, before the Royal Society.
The manuscript is not in Thomas Reid’s handwriting.
Papers and correspondence of literary figures.
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).
Papers, circa 1852-1872, of William Strathhenry Kemp.
Includes historical and literary lectures and essays, and addresses to pupils at Falkirk Grammar School and Glasgow High School.
With papers, 1897-1904, of Robina Jane Kemp, including certificates and testimonials.
Papers concerning Denys Hay`s introductory essay, "Fiat Lux" to "Printing and the Mind of Man" (1967).
Including correspondence, typescript drafts and proofs.
Correspondents include John Carter, Percy Muir and Stanley Morison.
Papers concerning, "The Age of MacDiarmid. Essays on Hugh MacDiarmid and His Influence on Contemporary Scotland. Edited by P H Scott and A C Davis".
Comprising proofs, manuscripts and typescripts of essays, and correspondence.
Papers concerning the compilation of the volume of essays to celebrate the National Library of Scotland`s tercentenary.
Papers, including some unpublished manuscripts, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
Papers of Alan Bold, David Morrison, and Tom Scott.
Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.
With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.
Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.
Papers of and concerning Robert James Batchen Sellar, containing tpescripts of plays and short stories, associated correspondence, and other related material.
Papers of Archibald J Cronin.
Includes school and university notes and essays, and corrected manuscripts of novels, short stories and autobiography.
Papers of Arthur Woodburn.
Concerning his Parliamentary Bill to facilitate the formation of a common European language.
Papers of Duncan Glen.
Including manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, essays, bibliographies and other literary work.
With Duncan Glen, "Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance", and poems of, and essays concerning, Hugh Macdiarmid.
Papers of Duncan Glen.
Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, a novel, autobiography, essays and articles.
Papers of Francis George Scott.
Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.
With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.
Papers of G S Fraser.
Includes typescripts of articles, essays, reviews and translations, many arranged in order by Fraser`s wife, Eileen, with a view to publication in collected form; also includes printed material by Fraser and correspondence concerning his work.
Papers of George Douglas Brown.
Comprising:
school essay, "Science and Intellectual Philosophy; their Aims and Relations"
letter of Brown, on the death of his mother
notes and transcriptions, undated, of Brown.
Papers of Iain Finlay Maciver.
Comprising undergraduate essays and examination scripts; notes for research degree; drafts, versions and off-prints of articles; texts and other scholarly works.
Papers of James B Caird.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.
With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.
Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.
Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.