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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.

Correspondence, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10684/1-46
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1981-1988, undated.

Literary papers, broadcast texts and press cuttings of Robert (Bob) Crampsey.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12980
Scope and Contents

With some manuscripts and papers by Alexia F McAlpine and Anne Valentine.

Dates: circa 1948-1998.

Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11378
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.

Dates: 1903-1911.

Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27285
Scope and Contents

Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.

Dates: 1866-1969, undated.

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Scotia Review, literary journal 2
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Crampsey, Robert Anthony, teacher, writer and broadcaster, 1930-2008 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1