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Papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6975
Scope and Contents

Including literary notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of literary work, and family and personal correspondence.

With papers of Susan, Baroness Tweedsmuir, including typescripts of essays and addresses, and correspondence.

Dates: 1894-1940.

Papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9243
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.

Dates: 1965-1985.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9201
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, beginning of a novel, two plays, sketches of books, two diaries and paper, "The African Solution".

Dates: circa 1916-circa 1986.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6120
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. typescript of note, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, on lady doctors

2. typescripts, 20th century, of works of fiction and essays on feminisim of Naomi Mitchison, with books

3. 2 letters, 1915, of Mary E Haldane to Naomi Mitchison.

Dates: circa 1880 to 20th century.

Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10065
Scope and Contents

Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.

Dates: 1812-1816.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11175
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.

Dates: 1948-1974 and undated.

Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents

William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.

Dates: 1833-1939, undated.

Papers of Thomas Aitken.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8839
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.

Dates: circa 1867-1880.

Papers of W Oliver Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9178
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning the Scottish Nationalist movement.

Includes an essay, press cuttings, and correspondence from amongst others, C M Grieve and Sir Compton Mackenzie.

Dates: 1930-1976.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

"Practiques of the Law of Scotland".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11941
Scope and Contents

Contains:

1 "Actes of Parliament Ordine Alphabetico Anent Crymes"

2 "Practickes re Land", 1666

3 "The Ordinarie Forme of Proces Befor the Lordes of Sessione", 1669.

Dates: circa 1666-1669.

Quintin Kennedy, "Ane Compendius Tractive", with annotations by the author.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9268 [RB.s.2950]
Scope and Contents

With manuscript copy of "De Praesentia Corporis in Sacramento Altaris".

Dates: 1558.

'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.

 File
Identifier: MS.2227
Scope and Contents

Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.

The title is in the hand of David Douglas.

Dates: 1883-1884.

Representation, 1682, of John Riddell of Haining, concerning the breeding of horses for the king, with four unassociated documents.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7583
Scope and Contents

Other papers:

letter, 1727, of Ludovick Brodie of Whytfield, to Alexander Brodie of Lethen, on business matters

letter, 1797, of Sir George Colebrooke, on the political situation in France

essay, 1835, of David Smith, "An Essay on Sympathy"

essay, 1850, of John MacKinnon, "An Essay on Patriotism".

Dates: 1682, 1727, 1797, 1835, 1850.

Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).

 File
Identifier: Acc.10356
Scope and Contents

Text as dictated to Stevenson`s mother, with his signature and sketches illustrating the work.

With copy of "The Happy Sunday Book of Painted Pictures" (London, undated) given to Stevenson as a prize, and a copy of the privately printed edition of the Stevenson manuscript by A Edward Newton, and a note by Newton on his acquisition of the manuscript.

Dates: 1856-1919 and undated.

Small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times.

 File
Identifier: MS.21239
Scope and Contents Thomas De Quincey's own letters are written to his family and friends about his work and other activities, finance, and family matters. Letters addressed to him include one from an unnamed American admirer, 1853, (folio 18) which was published in ‘Thomas De Quincey’, pages 103-105, the catalogue of an exhibition held at Dove Cottage and the National Library of Scotland.Most of the manuscripts are fragmentary drafts of unidentified essays, but they include parts of "The English...
Dates: 1800-1855, undated.

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Essays. 173
Manuscripts. 66
Typescripts. 39
Correspondence. 27
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Poetry. 19
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Drafts. Documents. 15
Articles. 13
Lectures. 12
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Photographs. 12
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 11
Speeches. Documents. 11
Novels. 10
Plays. 8
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Albums. 7
Diaries. 7
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Proofs. printed matter 6
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Photocopies. 5
Reviews. Document genre 5
Transcripts 5
Translations. Documents. 5
Annotations. 4
Biographies. 4
Drawings. Visual works. 4
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English 132
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Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 9
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 6
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 2
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Brown, James, Minister of Colmonell, b 1896 2
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 2
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 2
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Wallace, Sir William, Knight, guardian of Scotland, d 1305 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Aitken, Thomas, Medical Superintendent, District Asylum, Inverness, fl 1867-1880 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Anderson, Arthur, founder of P and O Steam Navigation Co, 1792-1868: recipient 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Association for Promoting Moral, Scientific and Commercial Knowledge, Glasgow 1
Begg, Maxwell Alexander, Assistant Keeper of Printed Books, National Library of Scotland, 1933-1988 1
Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 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
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Brodie, Alexander, of Lethen, d 1770: recipient 1
Brodie, Ludovick, of Whytfield, Writer to the Signet, c 1681-1758 1
Brodie, William, sculptor, 1815-1881 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, James, Inverness, fl 1980 1
Bryce, Alexander, Minister of Kirknewton, 1713-1786 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Buchanan, James, tutor to David S Erksine, 11th Earl of Buchan, fl 1760 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Burton, John Hill, historian, 1809-1881 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Cairns, David Smith, Principal, Christ's College, Aberdeen, 1862-1946 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Chadwick, Owen, 1916-2015 1
Clyde Workers' Committee 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Colebrooke, Sir George, 2nd Baronet, of Gatton, 1729-1809 1
Cookson, Sybil Irene Eleanor , novelist, pseudonym Sydney Tremayne, née Taylor, b 1890 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Davidson, Andrew Nevile, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, 1899-1976 1
Davidson, John, of Stewartfield and Haltree, Writer to the Signet, d 1797 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Dundas, John, Writer to the Signet, d 1816 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Elphinstone, John, 4th Lord Balmerino and 3rd Lord Coupar, 1652-1736 1
Encyclopaedia Britannica, publisher 1
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 1
Erskine, James, Lord Grange, Lord Justice Clerk, d 1754 1
Everson, James, Beverley, Yorkshire, fl 1825-1853 1
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 1
Ferguson, James, astronomer, 1710-1776 1
Ferguson, William, Reader Emeritus in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, b 1924 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Gall, James, Edinburgh, sculptor, b c 1809 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Goalen, James G, author of "Communion Tokens of the Established Church of Scotland", fl 1960 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 1
Gregory, Donald, antiquary, 1803-1836 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 1
Hall, Sir James, 4th Baronet, geologist and chemist, 1761-1832 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994: recipient 1
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 1
Hogg, William Dods, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1919-1925 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820: former owner 1
Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Jones, James Idwal, headteacher and politician, 1900-1982: transcriber 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kemp, Robina Jane, kinswoman of William Strathhenry Kemp, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, fl 1897-1904 1
Kemp, William Strathhenry, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, d 1873 1
Kennedy, Quintin, Abbot of Crossraguel, c 1520-1564 1
La Nauze, Robert, author, artist 1
Lang, Andrew, historian, 1844-1912 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacDiarmid, John, land and temperance reform campaigner, 1855-1937 1
MacInnes, John (minister of Halkirk) 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933 1
MacKinnon, John, University of Edinburgh, fl 1850 1
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