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Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Copies and photographic and other reproductions of early maps in British and foreign collections.
Correspondence and financial and administrative papers of the Sligo and Smith-Sligo family of Inzievar.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).
Journal, with printed maps and photographs, by William Douglas of the firm of Douglas and Foulis.
The journal records visits to West Sutherland including Handa Island, 1888, and to Ailsa Craig, with an account of the making of curling stones, 1889.
Journals of Ernest James Harris, Bank Manager, Haddington, consisting largely of accounts of caravanning holidays in Scotland, England, Wales, and Europe but also of a motoring tour in North America.
Papers of David Angus, civil engineer, relating to his life and work in South America and Damaraland, 1882-1926, with some later material; and miscellaneous papers and diaries of Nancy Angus, his daughter, 1907-1960.
Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.
Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.
Papers of Major General James Scott Elliot.
Papers of Prof George Chrystal.
Includes pamphlets, maps and glass slides concerning his work on saiches.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Photograph of a 19th century copy of the estate plan of the Barony of Edgerston, property of John Rutherfurd of Edgerston.
Photograph of a map of David Livingstone.
Details Livingstone`s explorations south and west of Lake Malawi, 1859-1863.
Photographs, maps and watercolours, compiled by Nikolai Vasilievich Poggenpol.
Concerning mountaineering expedition to Digoria, Balkaria, and Bezingi, in the Caucasus.