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13 letters and postcards to James K Annand.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7293
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include R B Cunninghame Graham and J Ramsay MacDonald.

Mostly concerning the University of Edinburgh Rectorial Election of 1929.

Dates: 1928-1929.

20 letters and a postcard of Arthur Conan Doyle to E Bruce Low.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6001
Scope and Contents

Concerning Doyle`s political ambitions and to the General Election of 1900, when he contested Central Edinburgh as a Liberal Unionist.

Dates: 1900-1905.

22 postcards, 1933-1942, of William Soutar to William Montgomerie and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7204
Scope and Contents

On personal and literary matters, with a sketch of Soutar.

With five letters, 1977, to Montgomerie, concerning Soutar, and an associated letter of Montgomerie to Maurice Lindsay.

Also four letters of Sir John Stirling-Maxwell and 11 letters of Anne G Gilchrist, 1948-1952, to Montgomerie, on literary and musical matters.

Dates: 1933-1977.

49 letters, 1951-1969, to Sir William Russell Flint.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7782
Scope and Contents

Concerning his published works.

With 25 postcards, 1908-1959 and undated, of and to Sir William Russell Flint and members of his family.

Dates: 1908-1969.

63 letters and cards of Frances Shand Kydd to William McIlwraith, Ayr.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12619
Scope and Contents

Includes book and press cutting.

Dates: circa 1997-2004.

95 letters of André Raffalovich to Charles Ballantyne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4630
Scope and Contents

With ten copies of letters, 24 postcards, and two telegrams. Also two letters and a card concerning Raffalovich.

Dates: 1925-1934.

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, 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.

Eight letters and one postcard of John Buchan and his brother J Walter Buchan, Peebles, to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10538
Scope and Contents

Largely concern the award of the freedom of Peebles burgh to Rosebery, and on J Walter Buchan`s reaction to John Buchan`s biography of the Marquess of Montrose.

Dates: 1912-1919.

Eight letters and postcards of Agnes Miller Parker to Ernest Rasdall.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7288
Scope and Contents

With a manuscript list of books illustrated by Miller Parker.

Dates: 1961-1962.

Four letters and two postcards of George Mackay Brown and six letters of George Davie concerning his wife, the writer Elspeth Davie, to Valentina Poggi.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12814
Scope and Contents

Includes a covering letter from the recipient of these letters and cards, Valentina Poggi.

Dates: 1985-1997, 2007.

Letter and five postcards, 1904-1905, of William Sharp.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8319
Scope and Contents

With a manuscript poem, undated, "The Dirge of Clan Siubhail", and a letter, 1906, of Mrs Sharp.

Dates: 1904-1906 and undated.

Letter of Christoper Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) to Dr John Thomas Low concerning Low`s edition of Stevenson`s "Weir of Hermiston" (1973).

 File
Identifier: Acc.12881
Scope and Contents

With a postcard of Ronald Mavor concerning Low`s edition of Bridie`s "Mr Bolfry".

Dates: circa 1973-1978.

Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13711
Scope and Contents Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1915-1916.Letters and postcards of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1915-1916. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were taken prisoner. ...
Dates: 1915-1916.

Letters to John Manson, poet, writer, editor and publisher of "Weighbauk" literary magazine.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12723
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Christopher Grieve (`Hugh MacDiarmid`), Sydney Goodsir Smith, Alastair Mackie, Archie Lamont and David Craig.

Dates: circa 1956-2006.

Papers of Ben Shaw.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6471/1-2
Scope and Contents

Including letters, 1894-1903, of J Keir Hardie, J Ramsay Macdonald, Robert Blatchford and George Bernard Shaw to Ben Shaw.

Dates: 1893-1922.

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Names
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 2
Flint, Sir William Russell, Knight, artist, 1880-1969 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 2
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Soutar, William (poet) 2
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Gordon Highlanders, 1st Battalion 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
Bergonzi, Bernard, author, b 1929 1
Bergonzi, Bernard, author, b 1929: recipient 1
Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville, journalist and author, 1851-1943 1
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Chapman, Robert William, fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1881-1960: recipient 1
Couderc, Camille, author, 1860-1933 1
Craig, David, writer, b 1932 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Davie, Elspeth Mary, novelist and art teacher, née Dryer, 1919-1995 1
Davie, George Elder, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1912-2007 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Fleming, Maurice, Editor of "The Scots Magazine", b ?1926 1
Flint, Sibyl Russell, wife of Sir William, artist, née Sueter, c 1874-1960: recipient 1
Flint, Sir William Russell, Knight, artist, 1880-1969: recipient 1
Forbes, Mansfield, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge, 1889-1936 1
Forster, Edward Morgan, novelist and essayist, 1879-1970 1
Gilchrist, Anne Geddes, musical antiquary, 1863-1954 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Guthrie, Sir William Tyrone, Knight, director and theatre designer, 1900-1971 1
Hannan, Thomas, Conscientious objector, fl.1900-1926 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Hill, family, Galashiels 1
Hogarth, Walter, correspondent of Alastair Reid, poet, fl 1957-2003: recipient 1
Hughes, H C, architect, Cambridge, correspondent of Mansfield Forbes, fl 1923-1932: recipient 1
Jackson, Lionel, Eskbank, fl 1949-1961. 1
Kydd, Frances Ruth Burke Shand, mother of Diana Frances, Princess of Wales, formerly Countess Spencer, née Roche, 1936-2004 1
Lamont, Archie, geologist and nationalist, 1907-1985 1
Lang, Andrew, historian, 1844-1912: recipient 1
Lang, Leonora Blanche (writer and translator, wife of Andrew, anthropologist, classicist, historian, née Alleyne) (1851-1933) 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Lindsay, Maurice, poet and writer, 1918-2009 1
Low, E Bruce, correspondent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, fl 1900-1905 1
Low, John Thomas, author and lecturer, b 1913: recipient 1
Mackie, Alastair, poet, 1925-1995 1
Manson, John, poet, writer, editor and publisher of "Weighbauk", b 1932: recipient 1
Mavor, Ronald, Professor of Drama, Saskatchewan University, playwright, 1925-2007 1
Maxwell, Sir John Maxwell Stirling-, 10th Baronet, of Pollok, 1866-1956 1
McIlwraith, William, correspondent of Frances Ruth Burke Shand Kydd, mother of Diana Frances, Princess of Wales, fl 1997-2006: recipient 1
Moncrieff, Catharine Scott, correspondent of Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator, fl 1924-1929: recipient 1
Moncrieff, Charles Kenneth Michael Scott, translator, 1889-1930 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994: recipient 1
Munro, Margaret, wife of William, niece of Leonora Blanche Lang , fl 1926-1933: recipient 1
Munro, William, correspondent of Leonora Blanche Lang, fl 1926-1928: recipient 1
Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry, Knight, lexicographer, 1837-1915 1
Paris, Gabriel Edouard, Colonel, fl 1881-1899 1
Parker, Agnes Miller, wood engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980 1
Piaget, Arthur, Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Neuchâtel, b 1856: recipient 1
Poggi, Valentina, President of Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Bologna, fl 1985-2007 1
Poggi, Valentina, President of Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Bologna, fl 1985-2007: recipient 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman, 1847-1929 1
Raffalovich, Marc André, poet, 1864-1934 1
Rasdall, Ernest, correspondent of Agnes Miller Parker, wood engraver and book illustrator, fl 1961-1962: recipient 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Richardson, Robin, BBC producer, fl 1960-1971: recipient 1
Riddell, David, Private, 1st Gordon Highlanders, fl.1914-1921 1
Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia, writer, 1856-1932 1
Sharp, William (author, pseudonym 'Fiona Macleod') 1
Shaw, Benjamin Howard, politician, 1865-1942 1
Shaw, Benjamin Howard, politician, 1865-1942. 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
Soutar, William, poet, 1898-1943 1
Tirumalai, C K, Oxford, fl 1985-1995 1
Wise, Thomas James (bibliographer and forger) 1
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