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The papers span Edith Macarthur's long career on stage and screen. They include playscripts, photographs, programmes and reviews of many of the plays in which she featured, along with some scripts and other memorabilia relating to her wide range of television work.

Scope and Contents The papers provide an insight into the personal and political relationship between James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937) and Bailie George Kerr of Glasgow (fl.1860-1942) over a period of nearly three decades. They also illustrate the development of the early Socialist movement in Scotland, trade unionism and Glasgow local politics. As well as letters of James Ramsay Macdonald, the archive includes correspondence of prominent Socialists such as John and Katherine Bruce Glasier and leading...

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Including lecture notebooks, copies of lectures and reports, and drafts of articles.

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Almost all the sketches are unidentified portraits and caricatures.

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The drawings are in pencil, and there are also a few proofs of cards and posters designed by Leonard Smith.

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The portraits include a rare self-portrait of Joseph Mallord William Turner and a caricature of Joseph Ritson, 1803.

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There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

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The cuttings include several caricatures.

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Papers of Scottish actor and theatre director Marillyn Gray (1930-2006), chiefly relating to the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh, in which she was a regular performer. The Gateway papers came into her care at some point after the theatre closed possibly entrusted to her by, or after the death of, Sadie Aitken (1905-85) Gateway Theatre General Manager, some of whose papers are in the collection.

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Includes:

four minute books, 1911-1930, 1936-1938

sketches, including one by James McBey

ten letters of J M Barrie, and two of Viscount Haldane

a cartoon and a photograh, 1911, depicting members

two letters, 1961, of James Bone, concerning relics of the Club.

Scope and Contents The scrap-book includes the drawing of Fenella dancing before Charles II (? by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe) (number 78), that of John Gibson Lockhart and others riding to Selkirk, 1823 (number 80), and the portrait of Charles Scott, 1820 (number 82), all reproduced in Andrew Lang’s ‘Life and Letters of ... Lockhart’, and a portrait of Tom Purdie, 1822 (number 79). The album also contains ‘Select Sonnets’ by George Huntly Gordon (printed, undated), with an autograph dedication by the author to...

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Scrap-book consists of cartoons and caricatures from periodicals matched with quotations from Walter Scott`s works.

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Including legal verses and caricatures.

Scope and Contents The book describes Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter's famous visit, paid in company with the Countess of Jersey, to the rebel king Mataafa at Malie (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 223-234). Three letters, 1892, of Stevenson are also included. One, apparently unpublished, is addressed to Mataafa and the other two (see ‘The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson’, volume iv, pages 216-217) to 'Amelia Balfour', a pseudonym for Lady Jersey. All these items...

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Notable correspondents include Lord Lorne and the anthropologist, General Augustus Pitt-Rivers.

Other miscellaneous items are included at the end of the correspondence: some highland tales and poems collected by Hector Maclean, a few printed illustrations from ‘Frost and Fire’ and three undated caricatures drawn by Lord Archibald Campbell.

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Most of the drawings are accompanied by a humorous commentary and there is a key identifying the figures (folio 67 verso). The signature of Augustus John is inside the front cover, and he is included among those caricatured.

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Printed, coloured caricature of Hobhouse, ‘Earl Hobby and Viscount Harangue, City of Westminster’: folio 1;

Printed portrait, ? 1836, "Sir John Cam Hobhouse", with a biographical sketch: folio 2.

Scope and Contents John Francis Campbell of Islay, Gaelic scholar and government official, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lord Colin Campbell, Member of Parliament for Argyll, are frequently featured. The volume includes an answer to a petition, ?1681, by the Earls of Erroll and Strathmore, and a list of debts, 1681, due by Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll. There are also two letters of Lord Archibald Campbell, one of J F Campbell of Islay, and a Gaelic poem, 1685, on Archibald, 9th...