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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.
Photocopies and translation of letter and examples of calligraphy of Marie Presot.
File
Identifier: Acc.4191
Dates:
1574.
Photocopies of a memoir of Sir James Steuart Denham and a translation of Gavin Douglas, "Vitae Episcoporum Dunkeldensium".
File
Identifier: Acc.9671
Dates:
18th century.
Photocopies of ten letters (some fragmentary) of Madame Tussaud from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.8001
Scope and Contents
With translations.
Dates:
1803-1804.
Photocopies of transcription and translation of Peithynen, by Miss Selby.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4073
Dates:
circa 1966.
Photocopy and translation of the record of registration of the Greig family coat of arms by the Heraldic Department, St Petersburg, Russia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11399
Dates:
1915.
Photocopy of translation of Calvin`s "Institution de la Vie Chretienne", by Queen Elizabeth I.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6250
Dates:
circa 1541-circa 1603.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated
Typescripts of translations of poems, and typescripts, photocopies and offprints of articles on poetry by G J Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.12525
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century.