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Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Letter and corrected carbon typescripts of six poems by Alastair Reid; with an inscribed copy of "Oddments, inklings, omens, moments: poems" (Boston, 1959).
Letters and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Literary papers of George Blake.
Includes correspondence, typescripts of novels published and unpublished, play-scripts, a diary of a visit to the United States, first copies of published works of fiction and non-fiction. Also includes notes on Blake, copies of articles by him and correspondence and papers of Christopher Dalgleish accumulated in the course of an uncompleted dissertation.
Literary papers of the poet Bessie MacArthur (1889-1983).
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Papers of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd (1893-1981).
Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.
Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Papers of TAG Theatre Company, concerning a production of Lewis Grassic Gibbon`s trilogy, "A Scots Quair".
Includes programmes, photographs and typescript and printed copies of an adaptation by Alastair Cording of "Sunset Song"
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Papers of the Very Reverend Harry Whitley, Doctor of Divinity.
Seven volumes of photographs, 1903-1922, and undated, of Himalayan and Alpine subjects, many concerning the 1922 Everest expedition, compiled by Professor George Ingle Finch; and the typescript, 1942-1945, with illustrations by Ronald Searle, of `Mountain Prospect` by R Scott Russell, written in Chargi Jail.
Also included is the printed book `Mountain prospect` (London, 1946), by R Scott Russell.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Typescript "Memories of the Advocates' Library" by William K Dickson, formerly Keeper of the Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
With a copy of William K Dickson’s ‘The National Library of Scotland', in ‘Juridical Review’, volume xl (1928), and a paper on the author by A A Grainger Stewart, ‘Scots Law Times’, December 1905 (both printed).