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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.
Account of time as a nurse at the King George V Seamen`s Memorial Hospital, Malta, of Miss J G M Allan.
File
Identifier: Acc.11950
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter, press cuttings and a newsletter.
Dates:
1938-1942.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
File
Identifier: MS.18000
Scope and Contents
The album includes letters from several prominent Edinburgh figures of the early 19th century such as Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, and Edward W A Drummond Hay, Principal Clerk, Lyon Office. Both men appear to have been in regular correspondence with William Ford. Amongst the printed items is an "Inventory of Work done for the State by his Majesty's Printer in Scotland 1642-1647" (Edinburgh, 1815), edited by Thomas Thomson. There are also a number of newspaper reports of meetings of...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.
File
Identifier: MS.9608
Scope and Contents
Also pasted into the album are two pamphlets by David Henry about the cathedral and the castle, 1910, and three letters, 1894, 1911, of David Hay Fleming.
Dates:
1894-1911.
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
File
Identifier: MS.9852
Scope and Contents
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
Dates:
1928-1930.
Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.7
Scope and Contents
The articles in the volume are: an interleaved copy of the third edition of Fleming’s ‘Scottish Banking’ (Edinburgh, 1877); a reprint from ‘Blackwood`s Magazine’, volume 118 (June 1875), of his “Banking and Mr Goschen`s Bill”; `The Interview between Sir Stafford Northcote and the English Bankers` and `Extension of Scottish Banks into England` from “Bankers` Magazine”, volume 36 (July 1876). Pasted in amongst the binder`s blank endpapers are a collection of press-cuttings,...
Dates:
1875-1877.
Copy of G A B Dowar and J H Boraston, "Sir Douglas Haig`s Command".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7131
Scope and Contents
Containing letter of Dewar, and letter and presentation note of Boraston, and press cuttings.
Dates:
1922.
Copy of 'Wild coal' (1963) by Kenneth White; with a letter of White, some poems in typescript, and newspaper cuttings.
File
Identifier: Acc.14442
Dates:
Circa 1963.
Correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Messrs John Smith and Son of their catalogue "Bibliotheca Scotica".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11253
Dates:
1926.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning O H Mavor ('James Bridie'); with letters of Evan John to Alfred Wareing.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8181-8184
Dates:
1927-1951.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14317/1-34
Content Description
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates:
1877-2003 and undated, with most of the material dated 1877-1920s.
Correspondence and papers of William K Dickson, Keeper of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Americana missing from the Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/45
Dates:
1916.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
circa 1916-2006.
Draft of a letter of Janet Milne Rae to George Douglas Brown and the original of his reply, 1902.
File
Identifier: Acc.3618
Scope and Contents
With letter, 1949, of James Veitch to Miss Lettice Milne Rae, and three newspaper cuttings concerning to George Douglas Brown.
Dates:
1902, 1949.
Drafts of lectures, notes, and other papers on ecclesiastical subjects by John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3555-3563
Dates:
Late 19th century-[before 1911].
Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-6
Scope and Contents
James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His
writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates:
1896-1910, 1916-1917.
Further papers of Captain Archibald D Cochrane
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14119
Scope and Contents
The papers relate to Captain Cochrane's career in politics and as Governor of Burma. They include letters from Cochrane to his wife, Julia Cochrane, 1936-1937; and correspondence between Cochrane and the British naval officers with whom he escaped in 1917 from a Turkish prisoner of war camp, 1921-1958.
Dates:
1921-1958.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13170
Scope and Contents
Alastair Cram was educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University and started his working life as a solicitor in private practice at the Scottish Bar. In the Second World War he saw service with the Royal Regiment of Artillery and SAS during which time he was taken prisoner and was involved in several successful escapes. Alastair Cram was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. In peacetime, he served as a Judge in Kenya and, in 1965, was Governor-General of Malawi. Alastair Cram was also a...
Dates:
1928-1967, and undated.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Letter of Graham Stuart together with newpaper cuttings concerning him and a lithograph.
File
Identifier: Acc.10470
Dates:
1832-1838.
Letter of the Reverend Lauchlan MacLean Watt to Major A R Munro.
File
Identifier: Acc.9505
Scope and Contents
Concerns the nomination of Alexander Macdonald as Moderator.
With associated newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1947.