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12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12424
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
Dates:
18th century to 19 century.
14 volumes of press cuttings compiled by Dr Lachlan Grant concerning social conditions in the Highlands.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12187/1-14
Scope and Contents
Dr Lachlan Grant MD (1871-1945) was born in Renfrewshire, spent much of his youth in Argyll, and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1896. He took a Diploma in Public Health in 1911 and in 1921 became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. He was Medical Officer for Ballachulish and Kinlochleven, bacteriologist to Argyll County Council and consulting medical officer to British Aluminium, Kinlochleven. He came to note nationally as the founder of the Highland...
Dates:
1902-1993.
63 letters and cards of Frances Shand Kydd to William McIlwraith, Ayr.
File
Identifier: Acc.12619
Scope and Contents
Includes book and press cutting.
Dates:
circa 1997-2004.
Academic and literary correspondence of Professor Alastair Fowler, with some drafts of works and press cuttings.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12015/1-57
Scope and Contents
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12015/57 gives biographical details on individual correspondents.
Dates:
[Circa 1971-2000], undated.
Account of time as a nurse at the King George V Seamen`s Memorial Hospital, Malta, of Miss J G M Allan.
File
Identifier: Acc.11950
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter, press cuttings and a newsletter.
Dates:
1938-1942.
Administrative records of Filmhouse, Edinburgh formerly National Film Theatre, Edinburgh
Series
Identifier: MI.1/7
Dates:
1968-1987
Administrative Records of George Kemp Ltd, Showmen and Exhibitors
Series
Identifier: MI.5/18
Dates:
1900-1982
Administrative Records of Russell Productions and Thames & Clyde Productions
Series
Identifier: MI.4/12
Dates:
1943-1963
Administrative Records of the Cinematographer Exhibitors' Association, Scottish Branch
Series
Identifier: MI.5/11
Dates:
1918-1971
Administrative Records of the Dawn Cine Group and Clydeside Film Society
Series
Identifier: MI.4/21
Dates:
1948-1959
Administrative Records of the Independent Programme Producers Association (IPPA)
Series
Identifier: MI.4/27
Dates:
1982-1991
Administrative Records of the Scottish Film Producers Association
Series
Identifier: MI.4/2
Dates:
1948-1950
Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13272/1-61
Dates:
1980-2010, undated.
Album concerning Thomas Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10484
Scope and Contents
Includes press cuttings, photographs and a portrait of Carlyle.
Dates:
late 19th century.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
File
Identifier: MS.18000
Scope and Contents
The album includes letters from several prominent Edinburgh figures of the early 19th century such as Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, and Edward W A Drummond Hay, Principal Clerk, Lyon Office. Both men appear to have been in regular correspondence with William Ford. Amongst the printed items is an "Inventory of Work done for the State by his Majesty's Printer in Scotland 1642-1647" (Edinburgh, 1815), edited by Thomas Thomson. There are also a number of newspaper reports of meetings of...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.20
Scope and Contents
The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`
Dates:
1562-circa 1830.