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"A Skylight on the Past", copy of a typescript of letters and memoranda of the families of Pemberton in County Durham and Wallace in Nairn, compiled by Nisa Laing.
Contains material concerning India and the First World War.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Carbon copy of typescript of a filmscript, "The Prince in Skye", by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Carbon copy of typescript of a novel, "Fanny Campbell", by J M Gordon.
Carbon copy of typescript of "Poor Angus", a novel by Robin Jenkins.
Carbon copy of typescript of "Selected Poems 1920-1970" by Albert D Mackie.
Carbon copy of typescript of thesis "The Education and Training of the Adolescent in Scotland" by William S Cormack.
Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.
With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.
Collection of papers, chiefly seventeenth century, which appear to have belonged to Richard Almack, Suffolk.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.
The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.
Copies of 14 photographs of a Kirkcaldy linoleum workers` strike.
With a typescript account, circa 1980, of the incident by James Bogie.
Copy in typescript carbon of Alexander Burgess, "Blood the Fuel of History", with author`s corrections.
Copy of typescript MA dissertation, by Frances Sterling Ellis, entitled "Unity in "The Heart of Midlothian"".
Copy of typescript PhD dissertation, by Frances Stirling Ellis, entitled "Progression as Retrogression: the Stuart Tragedy in the Waverley Novels."
Corrected typescript drafts of play of Stewart Conn, "The King".
With a copy of a review of the play.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
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.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Diary in typescript carbon of John L Baird.
Describing journey to Turkey, Mesopotamia and Persia.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
'Genealogie of the family of Achinbreck' (Campbell): a typewritten copy of a manuscript, 1741, in Adv.MS.34.6.19 (Genealogical collections), with autograph notes and corrections by Herbert Campbell, Cyprus, circa 1932.
Letter of Robert Louis Stevenson to Robert Allan Mowbray and Louisa Stevenson, from Hyères.
The letter is elaborately bound with a typescript copy, and boxed.