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Business papers of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd; with personal papers of the Bartholomew family.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes.
Correspondence and papers of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, chiefly addressed to him from the Low Countries and relating to his regiment, the Scots Greys, and the War of the Austrian Succession.
Included are a few letters addressed to Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell of Lawers.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and personal papers of a cadet branch of the Setons of Cariston, Fife, being the family of James Seton, Lieutenant 54th Foot.
Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
Both families were descended from Archibald Stuart of Castlemilk and Fynart (died 1660).
Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.
Manuscripts and papers of and concerning the novelist, Neil Munro (1863-1930).
Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.
Papers of and concerning the poet Edwin Muir (1887-1959).
Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).
Papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux.
Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.
Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of Miss Dora Tertia Liebenthal, musician and patroness of the arts.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.
Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).
Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.
Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.