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Letter, 11 diaries and six photograph albums of Arthur W Russell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12690
Dates:
1890-1930.
Letters and other documents, and a photograph and autograph album, formerly preserved at Yester House.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14829-14830
Dates:
1572-1964, undated.
Letters and photograph album of John Lawson Welch.
File
Identifier: Acc.8757
Scope and Contents
Written while in Pauper Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, concerning family and professional matters, and on philately.
Includes letters to his sister, son and brother, the Reverend Prof Adam C Welch.
Dates:
1888-1897.
Microfilm of photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Album, 1917, undated, of photographs of Blackpool, the voyage to South Africa with the RAMC, and wartime scenes in Cape Town and Durban (Acc.12016/1); Album, 1919-1922, of mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, and in Britain (Acc.12016/5);Album entitled ‘Chogoria – the early days. The start to 12 October 1922’ (Acc.12016/6);Album entitled ‘Chogoria early days, 1922-1930’ (Acc.12016/7); Album...
Dates:
[1917-1996.]
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents
D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates:
1902-1970.
Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.
Papers of Sir Robert H Scott.
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Identifier: Acc.11331
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter to his mother-in-law, 1942, photograph albums, 1924-1934, records of his Lord Lieutenancy of Peebles-shire/Tweeddale, 1968-1980, and an annotated copy of "Intisari" (Research Journal of Wider Malaysia).
Dates:
circa 1924-1980.
Papers of Sir Steven Runciman, including correspondence, diaries, photographs, and lectures.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13883
Dates:
1910-2000.
Personal and political papers of Eustace George Willis, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, with some photographs and memorabilia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13208
Scope and Contents
Personal and political papers, memorabilia and photographs, 1911–1976, of Labour politician Eustace George Willis (1903–1987). Willis was educated at the City of Norwich Secondary School. He served in the Royal Navy from 1919 until 1930. He was a bookseller and lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1932 until 1964. Willis was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North in the 1945 General Election but was defeated in 1950. He contested again Edinburgh...
Dates:
1911-1976.
Personal papers of Robert James Dundas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13929/1-15
Scope and Contents
Dundas was chaplain to the first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, Canada, and together the papers give a full account of missionary activity and relations with the Indigenous population, and of his own journey to and from North America. Dundas is particularly significant because of a collection of Tsimshian art he acquired as a result of a visit to Metlakatla, in northern British Columbia, which is now housed at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. The papers consist of eleven volumes of...
Dates:
1859-1866.
Photograph album, compiled by Margaret Marx, of the Scottish Women`s Ambulance Corps and Scottish Women`s Hospitals work in Romania and Russia.
File
Identifier: Acc.12090
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of documents concerning Patricia Walker (later Mrs Orr) of the Corps.
Dates:
circa 1916-1917.
Photograph album of Joseph Anderson, Keeper of the Scottish National Museum of Antiquities.
File
Identifier: MS.8831
Scope and Contents
The album contains a letter, 1879, of William B MacKenzie, Minister of Kenmore, accompanying four photographs, ?1869, depicting some of the early Celtic remains on Eilean-na-Naoimh in the Garvelloch Isles. Also enclosed is a letter, 1879, of William F Skene, the historian, and four more photographs, 1891.
Dates:
?1869-1891.
Two climbing notebooks, 1915-1922, of Joseph Alan Garrick; with letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11401
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, menu cards, printed books and 43 photograph albums, 1934-1937.
Dates:
1915-1937.