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22 letters, 1843-1847, to John Stevenson.
Concerning the transactions of the committee for the erection of a memorial to James Wilson, leader of the Radical Rising of 1820, in which Stevenson took part.
With a biographical note on Stevenson by George Maddocks, and a colour photograph of his portrait.
34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
43 letters of William Soutar to the Reverend David Stevens.
On personal and literary matters.
With associated photographs, typescripts, and printed items.
Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Archives concerning Polish students at the University of St Andrews.
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Circa 500 letters of Florence M Russell to Norman McLaren.
With cards, drawings and photographs.
Collection of twenty-one documents relating to the Stuart family and the French royal family.
Copies of papers of Alexander Hart.
Including:
1. photographs of three letters, 1820, 1847, of Alexander Hart
2. photograph of Hart in old age
3. Three certificates, 1814, of his brother, John.
Correspondence and contributions relating to issue 22 of "Scotia Review", published spring 1997.
Correspondence and financial and administrative papers of the Sligo and Smith-Sligo family of Inzievar.
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Correspondence and other papers, including photographs, newspaper cuttings and a pamphlet, concerning Sailors' Walk House, Kirkcaldy, a sixteenth-century building.
The papers were kept by the donor, Miss Gwendollyn Lendrum, secretary of the committee which prevented the house’s demolition, raised funds for its restoration, and ultimately transferred it to the National Trust for Scotland.
Correspondence and other papers of and concerning Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Correspondence and papers, 1940, of Jim Harley, Edinburgh.
Correspondence and papers largely of and to the Children`s Overseas Reception Board (Scottish Branch) concerning the proposed evacuation of Rosemary Harley to Canada. Also includes Rosemary Harley`s school reports, 1932-1938, from Cranley School, Edinburgh, a Cranley School photograph, 1937, and her notes on the papers, 2001.