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Found in 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Sheila McGregor, largely relating to knitting.
Correspondence and papers of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet.
Includes papers on inventions and a series of caricatures Dalrymple planned with James Gillray.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.
Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.
Includes photographs, articles and printed books.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Baron Lynedoch, and of the Honourable Mary Cathcart, afterwards Mrs Graham, his wife.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library relating to Wodrow manuscripts and pamphlets
Correspondence and papers of the Founders` Guild for an Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend John MacKechnie.
Correspondence and papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Correspondence, lectures, notes and other material of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes and his son, Dr Arthur Geddes.
Correspondence, lectures, notes and other papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932).
Correspondence, notes and press cuttings of the Reverend John C Carrick.
Moslty concerning the Newbattle Chartulary.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Correspondence of Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Baron Murray of Elibank and correspondence and papers of his brother, Arthur Cecil Murray, Viscount Elibank.
Correspondence of and papers concerning John Q Pringle.
Correspondence of John and Margaret Anderson, emigrants in Ontario, Canada, with notes on the histories of the Lindsay and Cameron families, and related papers.
Correspondence of John Philp Wood regarding his edition of 'The peerage of Scotland’ by Robert Douglas, with manuscript notes on proof-sheets.
Most of the writers of the letters and notes are members of the families concerned, supplying information. Some of the Rosebery letters in MS.2252 are on personal matters.
Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott with James Wylie, Writer to the Signet, on the illumination of their house-fronts for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh, and a note of Scott to Wylie regarding the installation of oil gas in their houses.
James Wylie occupied the flat, 41 Castle Street, immediately above Sir Walter Scott.