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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 Janet Buchanan Adam Smith.
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Papers of Joseph Macleod, including manuscripts of prose, poetry and plays; with diaries, correspondence and other personal papers.
Papers of Miss Dora Tertia Liebenthal, musician and patroness of the arts.
Papers of Nigel Tranter, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of his works the 'Chain of destiny', 'To the rescue', and 'The young Montrose'; with circa 600 letters and copies of letters, on literary, historical, political and community interest matters.
Papers of Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby, including correspondence, typescripts, manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and speeches.
Papers of Sir John Kirk and Lady Helen Kirk.
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.
Papers of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson.
Papers of three members of the Hamilton Dickson family: Robert Douglas Hamilton; James Douglas Hamilton Dickson; and John Douglas Hamilton Dickson.
Included are correspondence, manuscripts of scientific works, and other personal papers.
Personal and literary papers of Seton Gordon.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of some works of Seton Gordon, along with correspondence (including letters from David Young Cameron, Neville Chamberlain and Ramsay MacDonald) and other personal papers and photographs.
Personal and literary papers of Wendy Wood, including notes, correspondence, diaries, corrected typescripts of autobiographical work, records of the Scottish Patriots, and associated press cuttings.
Personal and professional papers of Roland Eugene Muirhead, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks and related material.
Concerning personal, business and political matters.
Personal correspondence and papers of Ian C Dunn, with papers concerning gay activism and related organisations and campaign groups.
Papers concerning personal interests (town planning, left-wing politics, Mansfield Place Church, Edinburgh Central Times) and gay rights activism – especially the activities of the Scottish Minorities Group, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland.
Personal correspondence and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly concerning the Scout movement and other public activities; with papers relating to military service and estate papers.
Photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Dr Irvine trained as a surgeon at Aberdeen before seeing wartime service in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1917-1919. In 1919, he was appointed medical missionary to the new Church of Scotland mission to Chogoria. He took up his post in 1922 and remained at Chogoria until his retirement in 1961. He was ordained in 1933 and died in Nairobi in 1974.
The photographs, films and papers represent Dr Irvine's working and family life.