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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Illustrated diary of a tour of Scotland.
Journal, day-books and an autograph book of William Scott of Raeburn (1773-1855).
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
Manuscripts of illustrated books and travel journals of Doris Ann Goodchild.
Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).
George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.
Papers of Sir Frank Fraser Darling.
Includes travel journals (Scotland, United States, Mexico, Zambia, Tanganyika (= Tanzania) and Kenya) and the manuscript of part of a book entitled "Agricultural Principles".