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Correspondence and papers, 1996-1999, of Ronald Black concerning the publication of his work 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999); with papers, 1937-1999, relating to other work on 20th century Gaelic literature.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12035/1-38
Scope and Contents

Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.

Dates: 1937-1999, undated.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents

The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988, undated.

Papers of Magnus Magnusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

Papers of Robert Herdman.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4541
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. photocopy of "Picture Book", 1870-1887, recording pictures painted by Herdman

2. notes of Herdman, on Thomas Carlyle, made while painting his portrait

3. correspondence of R Duddingstone Herdman, 1897, concerning the mounting of an exhibition.

Dates: 1870-1897.

Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).

Dates: 1959-1990.

Photocopies, 1967, of notes, 1965, by J O French on the history of the Scottish lodges of the United Operative Plumbers’ Association of Great Britain, predecessor of the Plumbers' Trade Union.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4339
Scope and Contents

Covers the period 1865-1965. The Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow No.1 and Greenock lodges are described in the typescript.

Dates: 1967.

Photocopies of account, 1664, of accident at Inverness, and list, 1669-1772, of deaths of persons named Fraser.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7468
Scope and Contents

Found on endpapers of copy of "Lawes and Actes".

Dates: 1664-1672.

Photocopies of manuscript notes of E A Hunt

 File
Identifier: Acc.5057
Scope and Contents

Concerning the parish of Chirnside and the Humes of Ninewells.

Dates: 20th century.

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Notes. 31
Correspondence. 12
Letters. Correspondence. 11
Photographs. 8
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Drafts. Documents. 6
Typescripts. 6
Copies. Derivative objects. 5
Lists. 5
Manuscripts. 5
Documents. 4
Poetry. 4
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 4
Research notes. 4
Biographies. 3
Genealogies. 3
Memorandums. 3
Notebooks. 3
Reports. 3
Transcripts 3
Transcripts. 3
Articles. 2
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 2
Diaries. 2
Excerpts. 2
Graphs. 2
Histories. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Portraits. 2
Snapshots. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
Travel journals. 2
Account books. 1
Admiralty charts. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Cartland (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Lanarkshire. 1
Cello music. 1
Census records. 1
Chirnside (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Longitude: -2.2000. Latitude: 55.8000. 1
Choral music. 1
Commentaries. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Commonplace books. 1
Declarations. 1
Dispatches. 1
Divertimentos. Musical compositions. 1
Drafts. Documents 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 1
Emails. 1
Ephemera. 1
Extracts. 1
Family papers. 1
Faroe Islands. Europe. Dependent state. Longitude: -7.0000. Latitude: 62.0000. 1
Fugues. Musical compositions. 1
Great Highland Bagpipe music. Bagpipe music. 1
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 1
Inverness. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Highland. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 57.4500. 1
Journals. Periodicals. 1
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Memoirs. 1
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Minutes. Administrative records. 1
Music books. 1
Musical compositions. 1
Novels. 1
Orchestral music. 1
Parts. Scores. 1
Piano music. 1
Picture postcards. 1
Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music. 1
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Proposals. 1
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Russia. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 47.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 1
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Language
English 33
Undetermined 8
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
Russian 1
 
Names
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 3
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
McGregor, family 2
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Balfour, Michael Leonard Graham, historian and public servant, 1908-1995 1
Balfour, Rhoda, wife of Sir Thomas Graham, author, née Brooke, fl 1896-1944 1
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 1
Boyd, James Robert, Principal of the Black River Literary and Religious Institute, 1804-1890 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 1
Cartland, Sir George Barrington, Knight, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania, 1912-2008 1
Davie, George Elder, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1912-2007 1
Erskine, John, of Carnock, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, 1695-1768 1
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh 1
Fraser, family 1
French, J O, writer on Plumbers' Trade Union, fl 1965 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Henley, William Earnest, poet, 1849-1903 1
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 1
Herdman, Robert Duddingstone, painter, 1863-1922 1
Herdman, Robert, painter, 1828-1888 1
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 1
Hogg, William, nephew of James, the Ettrick Shepherd, fl 1888 1
Home, family, of Whitfield and Ninewells 1
Houston, family 1
Hunt, E A, Chirnside, fl 1970 1
Insh, George Pratt, historian, b 1883 1
Kun, Béla, revolutionary, 1886-1939 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Little, Andrew, schoolmaster, Langholm, fl 1782-1803: recipient 1
Macfarlane, Walter, of Macfarlane, antiquary, d 1767 1
MacilleDhuibh, Raghnall, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Celtic Department, University of Edinburgh, b 1946 1
Mackenzie, family, of Kilcoy 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Mitchell, Joseph, civil engineer, 1803-1883 1
Neilson, A S, researcher on Robert Louis Stevenson, fl 1894 1
Parnell, Michael (biographer and senior lecturer in English at the Polytechnic of Wales, now The University of Glamorgan) 1
Plumbers' Trade Union 1
Pont, Timothy, topographer, fl 1574–1611 1
Pratt, John Scott Boyd, author of "Ancestors of Thane and Boyd Pratt", Junior, b 1892: transcriber 1
Quaich, McGregor family genealogical journal 1
Robertson, R P, physician, fl 1900-1982 1
Stevenson, Margaret Isabella, wife of Thomas, civil engineer, née Balfour, 1829-1897: recipient 1
Stone, Jeffrey C, author of "The Pont Manuscript Maps of Scotland", b 1936 1
Strachan, Michael, writer, b 1919 1
Telford, Thomas, engineer, 1757-1834 1
Waterston, Jane Elizabeth, Cape Town, physician, 1843-1932 1
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010 1
Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich, Head of the Communist International, 1883-1936 1
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