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This series contains substantial folders of correspondence with the conductor Dr. Emre Araci; opera singer Ian Caddy; Nobel Laureate and physicist Professor Peter Higgs; Professors Anthony 'Sandy' Robertson and Francesca Bray; theologian and scholar Fr. Brocard Sewell; and author Professor Alexander McCall Smith.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...

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The date has been suggested from a watermark of 1857.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...

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Although pre-occupied with describing incidents on the voyage itself Alexander Walker also writes very frankly about the education of his sons, William Stuart and James, and muses upon Napoleon.

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The numerous pen and ink and watercolour drawings include shooting, fishing, deer-stalking, sailing, Highland Games, horse-racing, boxing, military, smuggling and an Edinburgh street scenes. With maps of the Gledfield and Craigdarroch estates and There are also watercolour drawings of The Hibernian on which the author and his father crossed the Atlantic on their visit to North America

Scope and Contents A series of 30 sketchbooks comprising primarily of ink, pencil, and crayon drawings with a small number containing watercolour paintings. The majority of individual images are undated and untitled. Where contextual detail exists this has been recorded in item descriptions. Sketchbooks contain representations of everyday life in Edinburgh and London, with 7 sketchbooks representing the artist's international trips to Lausanne, Switzerland; and Taipei, Taiwan in 1982; Istanbul, Turkey in...

Scope and Contents Emily Jackson departed from Edinburgh on 18 August 1887 with her sisters Ina, Jane, Joanna and Alice Maule, and travelled to Kilmorack Manse, Inverness, where they stayed until 21 September 1887. Narrative of Italian tour starts on 4 December 1891 after the family arrived in Rome until their departure on 9 February 1892. The narrative restarts on 7 April when the family travelled to Venice finishing on 22 April. There are a number of lists at the back of the journal...

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John Jackson and his family left Edinburgh on 31 October for Glasgow to sail on the S.S. Columbia bound for Gibraltar. They travelled to Genoa, Leghorn (Livorno), Castellammare, Naples, Pompeii and Rome where they stayed for two months visiting Roman antiquities. They journeyed to Siena, and Florence, where the narrative stops on 16 March 1892.