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Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.
The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.
Catalogue compiled by Hugh Sharp of the Hugh Sharp Collection of printed books.
The catalogue was compiled before the transmission of the collection to the National Library of Scotland in 1938. It contains interesting details about many of the books. A newspaper-cutting about the collection, and notes made by members of the National Library staff, found loose in the first volume, have been pasted in.
Correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Messrs John Smith and Son of their catalogue "Bibliotheca Scotica".
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Letters and papers concerning the manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Letters of John Byrne to Douglas Percy Bliss.
Papers concerning Joan Eardley.
Includes annotated exhibition catalogues and periodicals, photographs and pres cuttings.
Papers of and concerning Charles McCall.
Includes correspondence, art exhibition catalogues, press cuttings and photograph albums.
Papers of Bet Low, artist.
Papers concern Low`s role in the establishment of the Charing Cross Gallery, Glasgow.
Papers of George Renfrew Wilson relating to his unpublished biography of David Young Cameron.
The collection comprises research papers and typescripts of a biography of Sir David Young Cameron which seemingly was close to publication, probably by Paul Harris, Edinburgh in the early 1980s. The anecdotal evidence is that some kind of disagreement stopped publication.
The papers include typescripts, correspondence, exhibition catalogues and press cuttings.