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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

‘Lays and lyrics’ by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1841) with pencil and wash illustrations, 1846, of A A Ritchie.

 File
Identifier: MS.15947
Scope and Contents

At the back of the volume, “A familiar Epistle, addressed to Peter M'Leod, Esq., of Polbeth” by Charles Gray (Edinburgh, 1845) has been bound in.

There are also manuscript verses by A A Ritchie (folio 1), class certificates, 1833-1834, of Charles Gray's son, Charles E Gray, from St Andrews University (folio 3) and a newspaper article, 1845, on Gray's poetry (folio 9).

Dates: 1833-1846.

Letter of Catherine Carswell to Edwin Muir in a copy of ‘The green ship’ (London, 1936) by Patrick Miller.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19704
Scope and Contents

Catherine Carswell identifies Patrick Miller as her brother, Gordon Macfarlane, and writes about her work and other activities. The book is signed by Miller and the artist Eric Gill.

Dates: 1936.

‘Letter to a friend in London; containing observations on the memoir of himself written by James Hogg ... and prefixed to a late edition of the "Mountain Bard"’ (Edinburgh, 1821) by George Goldie, interleaved, with manuscript notes.

 File
Identifier: MS.3369
Scope and Contents

The notes are stated (folio 1) to be by James Browne, Doctor of Laws, but they are clearly to be read as the composition of George Goldie himself.

Dates: [1821, of after.]

Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8463-8481
Scope and Contents

David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.

Dates: 1845-1964.

Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13601
Scope and Contents Letters and copy letters, 1981-1983, of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson; with related papers and publications. Neil Hanson was Exhibitions Officer at Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery at the time, and had approached Finlay about possible involvement in a proposed ‘Cumbrian Landscape Exhibition’ and related book (presumably Presences of nature: words and images of the Lake District, published by the Gallery in 1982). The early correspondence chiefly concerns the possibility of commissioning...
Dates: 1981-1983.

Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).

 File
Identifier: MS.50256
Scope and Contents Estimate, 1852, supplied by R and R Clark, printers, for production costs for a half-crown illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 1).Copy of a memorandum, 1852, between A and C Black and Co and Matthew Urlwin Sears concerning the production of woodcuts for the illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 2).Letters, 1852-1853, of Matthew Urlwin Sears to A and C Black and Co concerning the production and supply of woodcuts for the illustrated editon of...
Dates: 1852-1853

Letters written by John Williams, mineral engineer, to the Earl of Buchan, bound at the end of Williams’ 'An account of some remarkable ancient ruins lately discovered in the Highlands .. .in a series of letters' (Edinburgh, 1777).

 File
Identifier: MS.996
Scope and Contents

With notes on John Williams by the Earl of Buchan, and a modern transcript of a fourteenth 'letter' not printed in the book.

Dates: 1790, undated.

'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volumes i-iii, v, and ix (ii and ix being of the second edition), by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3358-3362
Scope and Contents

The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).

Dates: 1827.

'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.

 File
Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents

The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.

Dates: 1894-early 20th century.

Literary papers of George Blake.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11930
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 20th century.

'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.826-832
Scope and Contents

This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).

Dates: 1710-1837.

Manuscript and printed versions of "Moidart, or Among the Clan Ranalds", (Oban, 1889) by the Rev Fr Charles MacDonald.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11741
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, 1914, concerning a new edition of the book.

Dates: circa 1889-1914.

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Notes. 71
Letters. Correspondence. 45
Manuscripts. 45
Correspondence. 35
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 26
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Annotations. 23
Poetry. 23
Photographs. 18
Typescripts. 17
Copies. Derivative objects. 14
Interleaves. 14
Diaries. 12
Microfilms. 11
Notebooks. 11
Articles. 10
Histories. 10
Minutes. Administrative records. 10
Excerpts. 9
Financial records. 9
Lists. 9
Printed materials. Object genre. 9
Accounts. 8
Reports 8
Inscriptions. 7
Sketches. 7
Illustrations. Layout features. 6
Portraits. 6
Drafts. Documents. 5
Legal documents. 5
Plays. 5
Signatures. Names. 5
Songs. Musical compositions. 5
Bookplates. 4
Catalogues. 4
Indexes. Reference sources. 4
Journals. Accounts. 4
Literature (writings). 4
Presentation copies. 4
Proofs. Printed matter. 4
Speeches. Documents. 4
Biographies. 3
Dissertations. 3
Documents. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Memoirs. 3
Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music. 3
Reviews. Document genre 3
Scripts. Documents 3
Transcripts 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Address books. Reference sources. 2
Administrative records. 2
Anecdotes. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Autographs (manuscripts). 2
Bibliographies. 2
Charters 2
Christmas cards. 2
Engravings. Prints. 2
Ephemera. 2
Estate records. 2
Extracts. 2
Family papers. 2
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 2
Lectures. 2
Librettos. Documents for music. 2
Marginalia. Annotations. 2
Memorandums. 2
Newsletters. Serials. 2
Novels. 2
Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories). 2
Personal papers. 2
Photocopies. 2
Politics. 2
Programmes 2
Prospectuses 2
Reports. 2
Research notes 2
Rules. Instructions 2
Scores 2
Sermons. 2
Short stories. 2
Sketchbooks 2
Sketches 2
Transcripts. 2
Treatises. 2
Watercolours. Paintings. 2
Addenda. 1
Annals. Histories, without comment. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Book industries and trade 1
Book jackets. 1
Books. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Canntaireachd. Tablature (Musical notations). 1
Caricatures. 1
Certificates 1
Certificates. 1
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Language
Undetermined 122
English 69
Multiple languages 4
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
French 1
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Names
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Saltire Society 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Anderson, Marshall (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee) 1
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Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Attic Archive (Dundee) 1
Ballantyne (family, of Holylee ) 1
Beecher, Charles (minister, composer and author) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 1
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 1
Church of Scotland, Blantyre Mission, Malawi 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1
Clark, Robert (printer, Edinburgh) 1
Coles, Cecil Frederick, composer, 1888-1918 1
Coles, Penny Catherine, daughter of Cecil F, composer, 1917-2003. 1
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dwelly, Edward, Gaelic lexicographer, pseudonym Ewen MacDonald, 1864-1939 1
Edinburgh Cine and Video Society (ECVS) 1
Ewing, Winifred Margaret, politician, SNP MP, MSP, b. 1929 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Finch, George Ingle, chemist and mountaineer, 1888-1970 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Flynn, Ann, wife of Thomas Vincent, General Secretary of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, fl 1950-1991 1
Flynn, Thomas Vincent, General Secretary of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, fl 1950-1991 1
Gairdner, Charles Campbell, poet and author, fl 1955 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Haining, Peter (artist, and curator of the Attic Archive, Dundee.) 1
Hanson, Neil, writer, b 1948: recipient 1
Horobin, Peter (artist) 1
Kay, Ada F, writer, pseudonym A J Stewart, b 1929 1
Kinematograph Renters' Society 1
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
MacDonald, Charles, priest in Moidart, 1835-1894 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
McLetchie, David William, WS, Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, b 1952 1
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 1
Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 1
Play in Scottish Hospitals, voluntary organisation 1
Price, Thomas, co-author of "Independent African", b 1907 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Royal Highland Yacht Club, 1881- 1
Russell, Robert Scott, botanist and mountaineer, 1913-1999 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Scottish Covenant Association 1
Scottish National Party 1
Searle, Ronald William Fordham, cartoonist and illustrator, 1920-2011. 1
Sears, Matthew Urlwin (wood engraver) 1
Social Democratic Party, political party 1
Somerville, Alexander George, missionary, 1917-1999 1
Somerville, Robert, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, fl 1895-1933 1
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 1
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (author and humanitarian) 1
Stuart Forbes (family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo ) 1
Train, Joseph, antiquary, 1779-1852 1
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 1
Union of Communication Workers 1
Whitley, Henry Charles, Minister of St Giles', Edinburgh, 1906-1976 1
Winn, Godfrey I Burgess, Colonel, member of the Edinburgh Society of Organists, d 1981 1
aitch (artist, creator of the ae phor digital archive, and curator of the Attic Archive.) 1
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