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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.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13440
Scope and Contents
Papers of Lord James Douglas Hamilton concerning his two terms as High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 2012-2013, and to his involvement in the Bicentenary of the Red River Settlement Commemoration, September 2012.
Dates:
2012-2013.
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.
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 and postcard of George Mackay Brown to Bernard Bergonzi, concerning the latter`s visit to Orkney in 1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.12784
Scope and Contents
Inlcudes covering letter, 2007.
Dates:
1995-2007.
Letter and postcard of Tyrone Guthrie to Robin Richardson.
File
Identifier: Acc.5331
Dates:
1961-1962.
Letter and postcards of Hamish Henderson to Maurice Fleming.
File
Identifier: Acc.13972
Dates:
1959-1972.
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 and papers of John McDiarmid Airlie, ILP and Labour activist.
File
Identifier: Acc.11566
Dates:
1912-1933.
Letters and postcards of Alastair Reid to Walter Hogarth.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12884
Dates:
1957-2003.
Letters and postcards of Sir Hugh Walpole, with two letters of Dorothea (Dorothy) Walpole, to William Roughead, tipped into Roughead's personal copies of seven novels by Hugh Walpole.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9762-9768
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1922-1941.
Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor to Lyndall Birch.
File
Identifier: Acc.13664
Scope and Contents
20 letters and postcards of Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor 1958-1960, 1977, 1982, 1988 and 2003, with 2 letters of Joan Leigh Fermor, 1976 and 1988.
Dates:
1958-1960, 1976-1977, 1982, 1988 and 2003.
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 of William Sharp ('Fiona Macleod') to the publisher Frank Murray concerning two of Sharp’s works: ‘Vistas’ (Derby, 1894) and ‘Pharais’ (Derby, 1894); with related material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9985-9986
Dates:
1893, 1894, 1899, undated.
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.
Manuscript poem, eight postcards and a photograph of George Ramage, Lance Corporal, Gordon Highlanders.
File
Identifier: Acc.11982
Dates:
circa 1920-1927.
Member`s ticket, dividend warrant and post card of the Kingskettle Co-operative Society Ltd, Kingskettle, Fife.
File
Identifier: Acc.9347
Dates:
circa 1850-1900.
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.
Musicological correspondence and other papers of Michael Bonaventure.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11979
Dates:
circa 1986-2000.
Papers concerning Scottish football.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9979
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Scottish Football Annual, 1875-6"
"Constitution and Rules of the Scottish Football Association" (1873), with manuscript notes
five notebooks, 1867-1903, of Sir George Graham, on Scottish football
21 postcards, 1904-1912, of Scottish football teams and players
typescripts and newspaper cuttings, 1931-1933 and undated, on Scottish football
Dates:
1867-1933 and 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 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.
Papers of George Mackay Brown, including letters, postcards, and Christmas cards.
File
Identifier: Acc.14439
Dates:
1961-1968.