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17 postcards of Stansmore Dean Stevenson and Jean Stevenson to Elise Pruvost, their housekeeper in France.
File
Identifier: Acc.14471
Scope and Contents
The postcards, all except one written in French, were formerly part of the family album of Elise Pruvost and her daughter Christiane Lavoger. They date from the period when Stansmore Dean Stevenson and her husband, the painter R. Macaulay Stevenson, and step-daughter Jean Stevenson, stayed in Montreiul-sur-mer, France. The collection also includes a photograph of Elise Pruvost and the Stevenson family on a visit to London, c.1925.With biographical information, in French, compiled...
Dates:
1910-1926.
Administrative Records of George Kemp Ltd, Showmen and Exhibitors
Series
Identifier: MI.5/18
Dates:
1900-1982
Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.
File
Identifier: Acc.13169
Scope and Contents
This album records a visit to Scotland by three women, Winnifred, Joan and Mona in August 1919. The friends visited Oban, Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Staffa, Glencoe and Edinburgh. The album consists of photographs and postcards with observations on their experiences.
Dates:
1919.
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
File
Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1923-1929.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11627/1-120
Dates:
1863-1978.
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.
Correspondence, papers and photographs of Ray Wolff, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12475
Dates:
1925-1976.
Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21072-21096
Scope and Contents
John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.
Dates:
1877-1928.
Diary of a tour on the Continent by H W K.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11891
Scope and Contents
Illustrated with mounted postcards and photographs.
Dates:
1908.
Journals of Ernest James Harris, Bank Manager, Haddington, consisting largely of accounts of caravanning holidays in Scotland, England, Wales, and Europe but also of a motoring tour in North America.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13360
Scope and Contents
Ernest James Harris spent his working life as a banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was a branch manager in Leith and later for many years in Haddington. In the early 1970s, he represented the Bank in New York. The journals provide a detailed record of family holidays, generally by caravan, over more than thirty years. They are illustrated with pasted in specifications of caravans owned by the family, leaflets and plans of caravan sites visited, photographs, postcards,...
Dates:
1960-1985
Letter, 1880, postcards, 1910-1911 and photographs, undated, of the Hill family, Galashiels.
File
Identifier: Acc.11215
Dates:
1880-1911 and undated.
Manuscript poem, eight postcards and a photograph of George Ramage, Lance Corporal, Gordon Highlanders.
File
Identifier: Acc.11982
Dates:
circa 1920-1927.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.
Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8695/1-336
Scope and Contents
This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates:
1786-1983.
Papers of James Ramsay Macdonald and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13461
Scope and Contents
The papers provide an insight into the personal and political relationship between James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937) and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow (fl.1860-1942) over a period of nearly three decades. They also illustrate the development of the early Socialist movement in Scotland, trade unionism and Glasgow local politics. As well as letters of James Ramsay Macdonald, the archive includes correspondence of prominent Socialists such as John and Katherine Bruce Glasier and leading...
Dates:
1895-1970s.
Papers of Robert di Falco, St Andrews.
File
Identifier: Acc.12028
Scope and Contents
Includes field diary, memoirs and photographs concerning di Falco`s service in the Italian Army, 1918-1921. Also includes Italian war service medals (framed) and material concerning Gabriele d`Annunzio`s seizure of Fiume, 1919.
Dates:
1918-1947
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Personal and political papers of John McDiarmid Airlie with printed papers and photographs of Robert McGregor Airlie and some printed songbooks and music.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13203
Scope and Contents
Personal and political papers, 1899-1953, of John McDiarmid Airlie (1886-19), Labour Councillor and Parliamentary candidate to Ayr Burghs, related to his involvement in the Trade Union and Labour movement.The collection includes some interesting correspondence from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) and from Labour Ministers of Fuel and Power Hugh Gaitskell (1906-1963) and Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889-1982). It also includes some printed papers and...
Dates:
1899-1960.
Photograph album, photographs and postcards of Mr and Mrs John Hirons, Birmingham, of holidays in Scotland, England and North America.
File
Identifier: Acc.12505
Dates:
1952-1967.
Photographs of works of Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson, sculptor, with related papers, cuttings and correspondence.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8542/1-61
Dates:
1907-1978.
Postcard photograph of John Bird.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4731
Scope and Contents
Postcard photograph of John Bird, leader of militant Fife miners on horseback with the caption 'Souvenir of the Great Strike 1926' and 'On Patrol'. The card also has a facsimile signature of John Bird.
Dates:
1926.
Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, photographs and proofs of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13681
Scope and Contents
1). Postcards, christmas card, typescript verse, press-cuttings and proofs, 1896-ca.1960, undated.i. Postcards, 1896-1903, undated.ii. Christmas card, early 20th century.iii. Typescript verse of Isobel Wylie Hutchison, undated.iv. Press-cuttings, 1949, undated.v. Proofs, 1956, of `Literary Landmarks of Scotland`, articles by Isobel Wylie Hutchison for the `National Geographic` magazine.2. Photographs, ca.1900-1962,...
Dates:
1896-1962, undated.
Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents
Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates:
1931-2000
Successive typescript, printed and postcard versions of poem of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Net/Planet", and photographs of final version; with a letter to 'Private Eye' and a copy of issue 11 of the 'Private Tutor' magazine.
File
Identifier: Acc.4652
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Net/Planet' Poem
Original typescript, [circa 1966]
Form 3, 15 December 1966.
Proof of postcard published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, 1968.
2 colour photographs, undated.
Carbon copy of letter to Private Eye concerning 'The Dancers Inherit the Party', 1970.
'Private Tutor', number 11, May 1970.
Dates:
[Circa 1966]-1970, undated.
Ten letters and a postcard of Leonora Blanche Lang, née Alleyne, to her niece Margaret Munro and her husband William. With a notebook and photographs.
File
Identifier: Acc.13025
Scope and Contents
Notebook contains series of sketches titled "Country Conversations"; photographs of Leonora and Andrew Lang.
Dates:
circa 1880-1933.