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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates:
1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.
Diaries and notebooks of William Blair, minister of Dunblane United Presbyterian Church; with two volumes formerly belonging to John Bisset, minister of Nairn United Presbyterian Church.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3334/1-50
Scope and Contents
Includes student lecture-notes, journals and sermons.
Dates:
?1843-1903, undated.
Journals and notebooks of Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13420
Scope and Contents
Edward Theodore Salvesen (1857-1942) was the son of Christian Frederick Salvesen (1827-1911), the Norwegian born founder of the Salvesen shipping company of Leith. He was educated at Edinburgh University and called to the Scottish Bar in 1880, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1899. As a Liberal Unionist candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituencies of Leith Burghs in 1900 and Bute in 1905. He was Sheriff of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire and Selkirkshire from 1901-1905...
Dates:
1873-1900.
Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13233
Scope and Contents
Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...
Dates:
1937-1995.
Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents
Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.
Dates:
Circa 1966-2013.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Series
Identifier: Dep.265
Dates:
Circa 1957-1975.