Scope and Contents

Containing:

(i) ‘Memories of the Canadian West’: script of broadcast on BBC Home Service, 5 August 1951.

(ii) Address to Robert Louis Stevenson Club of Edinburgh, 13 November 1971.

(iii) Address to Sir Walter Scott Club, Edinburgh, 7 March 1975.

(iv) ‘The Rifle’ account of an African safari in the Soroti Region Region of Uganda.

(v) ‘The Jameson Reid’.

Scope and Contents

With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.

Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Four theological works in hands apparently of early seventeenth-century provenance (folios 1, 40, 59, 100); (ii) Two holograph sermons of John Gray (folio 107); (iii) Amended copies by Andrew Blackball of sermons of Robert Rollock 1598 (folio 115); (iv) "A serious address to the minrs of ye Presbyterian Party" in Gray's hand (folio 141); (v) "A short catechisme" followed by a sermon, both in another seventeenth-century hand (folio 152); (vi) Sermons, 1694,...

Scope and Contents

The correspondence concerns addresses commissioned from Edward Johnston, and include drafts by him, and one of his lettering sheets, 1902.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...

Scope and Contents

Joyce Cary discusses his literary work and two lectures he was to deliver in Edinburgh, and gives his impressions of East Africa and India. A printed copy of the laureation address delivered when he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Edinburgh University in 1953 is included (folio 23).

Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: (i) Copy, late seventeenth century, of a funeral oration in honour of George Earl Marischal (succeeded 1581) delivered in 1623 by William Ogston, professor of moral philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen (folio 1); (ii) A genealogical history, 1700, of the Earls Marischal (folio 16); (iii) Extracts and notes, circa 1700, from ‘Sutherlandia comitum annales’, a manuscript history dated 1631 and attributed to Alexander Ross of Aberdeen (folio 31).

Scope and Contents From the Series:

With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.

Content Description Correspondence and other papers of and about Dr Farquhar Macintosh, teacher and educationalist and supporter of Gaelic. He was born in Elgol, Isle of Skye, on 27 October 1923, a native speaker of Gaelic, and died in Edinburgh, 18 November 2007. He went to Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, and became headmaster of Portree High School (1962-1966) and Oban High School (1967-1972), and finally Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1972 to 1989). He served...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...

Scope and Contents

Contains two printed items: A copy of The Camanachd Association: Constitution and Rules of Play, 1952-1953; Camanachd Cup Final souvenir programme of Kyles Athletic v. Newtonmore, Saturday 11th April, 1959, Glasgow.

Also contains notes by Farquhar Macintosh on the history of shinty, and an address given to the Camanachd Association, written on headed notepaper dated 1959. Macintosh was honorary secretary of Glasgow University Shinty Club.

Scope and Contents The volume contains: (i) Election papers and addresses, 1832 (folio 1); (ii) Printed parliamentary papers with manuscript notes, including lists of members; copies of Acts etc. (folio 21); (iii) Papers concerning reform (folio 75); (iv) Papers, 1836, concerning the Scotch Municipal Bill (folio 84); (v) Papers, 1831-1836, concerning the Hypothec Bill (folio 88); (vi) Papers, 1836-1837, concerning the Salmon Fisheries Bill (folios 162); (vii) Papers concerning prisons (folio 178); (viii)...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).

Scope and Contents

The address by Professor Davidson concerns biochemistry, with particular reference to DNA and nucleic acid.

Scope and Contents

The recordings are of various presentation ceremonies, lectures and addresses.

Content Description From the Collection: Correspondence and other papers of and about Dr Farquhar Macintosh, teacher and educationalist and supporter of Gaelic. He was born in Elgol, Isle of Skye, on 27 October 1923, a native speaker of Gaelic, and died in Edinburgh, 18 November 2007. He went to Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, and became headmaster of Portree High School (1962-1966) and Oban High School (1967-1972), and finally Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1972 to 1989). He served...

Scope and Contents

Speeches given by Macintosh at annual dinners or similar festive events held by various bodies associated with the Royal High School. Most of these are preserved together with the dinner programmes.

Scope and Contents

Speeches given partly or wholly in Gaelic, with a small number in English but strongly linked to Gaelic-related subjects. Some are in the form of notes written into the programmes of ceilidhs at which he was asked to introduce the songs and performers. Most of the undated notes and speeches probably date from the 1960s.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.