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22 letters, 1843-1847, to John Stevenson.
Concerning the transactions of the committee for the erection of a memorial to James Wilson, leader of the Radical Rising of 1820, in which Stevenson took part.
With a biographical note on Stevenson by George Maddocks, and a colour photograph of his portrait.
34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
43 letters of William Soutar to the Reverend David Stevens.
On personal and literary matters.
With associated photographs, typescripts, and printed items.
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 Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Copies of papers of Alexander Hart.
Including:
1. photographs of three letters, 1820, 1847, of Alexander Hart
2. photograph of Hart in old age
3. Three certificates, 1814, of his brother, John.
Correspondence and papers of Ilio Orlandini and of the Serafini family of Selkirk.
The papers are comprised of a large series of letters from Gloria Serafini to Ilio Orlandini, 1946-1947, regarding their relationship and son Peter, and describing life in Selkirk; personal papers of Ilio Orlandini relating to his experiences as a Prisoner of War during the Second World War, 1942-1947; and personal papers and photographs of the Serafini family, 1919-1972, relating to their lives and work.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Correspondence, photographs and papers, circa 1920-1993, of and relating to Edwin and Willa Muir.
Diaries of Walter Robertson Cuthbert.
Includes two letters to Cuthbert from his mother and two photographs from World War I.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.
Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine
"Field Marshal Earl Haig K T Letters 1920 to 1927".
Contains 41 letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.
Five letters of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and his wife, Dorothy, to Thomas Henry Nowell Parr.
Letters concern personal and architectural matters, including four photographs of Haig and his wife.
Four letters, 1615, 1679, undated, concerning the family of Gordon, Buckie.
With letters, photographs and other papers, mainly concerning the Erskine family.