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Postcards.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes.

Found in 394 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of Elizabeth S Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20240-20244
Scope and Contents

The diary was written at intervals of varying length, ranging from a few days to some months, but most entries cover the period following the previous one.

The whereabouts of the first volume of the original diary are not known.

Dates: 1887-1937.

Diary of Elizabeth S Haldane., 1931-1937.

 Item
Identifier: MS.20242
Scope and Contents

A postcard, 1935, of Sir George Adam Smith, formerly loosely enclosed is tipped in (folio 40).

Dates: 1931-1937.

Drafts and typescripts of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Psychoanalysis in relation to attitudes of Doctors’; ‘Religion and fantasy’; ‘A case of religious fantasy’; and, ‘Head – aphasia’., Circa 1925-1927.

 File
Identifier: MS.50171
Scope and Contents The articles and papers are arranged chronologically.Circa 1925.‘Psychoanalysis in Relation to Attitudes of Doctors’.Manuscript notes, circa 1925, of an article, ‘Psychoanalysis in Relation to Attitudes of Doctors’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The article was submitted to the ‘Edinburgh Medical Journal’, but would appear not to have been published. Folios 1-6.Folios 1-2 loosely enclosed folios 3-6.1927.‘Religion...
Dates: Circa 1925-1927.

Eight letters and one postcard of John Buchan and his brother J Walter Buchan, Peebles, to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10538
Scope and Contents

Largely concern the award of the freedom of Peebles burgh to Rosebery, and on J Walter Buchan`s reaction to John Buchan`s biography of the Marquess of Montrose.

Dates: 1912-1919.

Eight letters and postcards of Agnes Miller Parker to Ernest Rasdall.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7288
Scope and Contents

With a manuscript list of books illustrated by Miller Parker.

Dates: 1961-1962.

'Elegies for the dead in Cyrenaica' (London, 1948) by Hamish Henderson, with an inscription and postcard of the author to Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1948.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26633
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1948.

Ephemera, postcards and objects retained by James Johnston., ?1960s-1990s?

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/568-569
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...
Dates: ?1960s-1990s?

Family correspondence of Peter Hodgkiss to Janet Adam Smith, containing letters, postcards and five card-books from various mountain ranges, including the Alps. Also containing five colour photographs, in two separate sleeves, of mountain scenes., 1978-1998.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/127
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.

Dates: 1978-1998.

File box, unlabelled, containing letters, postcards and faxes of Rob Fairley to Marshall Anderson., 1994-2011.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 38(1)-(3)
Scope and Contents

Also included is a sketch book of Rob Fairley, 'Kathmandu: being a brief history of a walk from Nag Pokhari to Pushputinath on the first night of Diwali 1997'; and a printed catalogue, 'Rob Fairley: the early works'. The box lid is covered on the outside in the remnants of a purple, synthetic waterproof jacket. The rest of the outside of the box is covered in green fabric. The box is lined with a map showing the isles of Rhum (in part) and Eigg, and part of Arisaig.

Dates: 1994-2011.

File box, with label '1 Arts 1990', containing material relating to the visual arts, named artists, cultural institutions and cultural events., 1988-1990.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 11
Scope and Contents

The box is covered in tartan, and the inner lid is lined with a map of Fort William and its surrounds, certain points of which have been annotated with dates.

Dates: 1988-1990.

File containing assorted leaflets, fliers, prospectuses and postcards relating to exhibitions and other cultural events and activities concerning the arts., 1992-1993.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 13(1)
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates: 1992-1993.

File, 'The Attic Archive. Karen Strang. Letters and limited editions'., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 18(10)
Scope and Contents

The file contains greeting cards and postcards, and includesile also includes a red felt matchbox wrapped in silver thread, labelled 'Sweet Success'.

Dates: Undated.

Forty-five letters and three postcards of Richard Eberhart to Michael Roberts., 1930-1934.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13145/32
Scope and Contents 23 January, 4 April, 18 June, 28 July, 4 October, 4, 14 November 1930 and ?1930.; 8 January, 19 February, 16 (envelope only), 27 March, 3 June, 20 July, 27 October, 11, ?17 November, 10 December 1931, 2 postcards, 1931, and 2 undated letters, ?1931; 7, 18, 22 January, 13 (postcard), 20, 25 February 1932, and 2 letters, February 1932, ?1, 31 March, 13, 26 April, 14 May, 18 July, 11 October, 19 December (postcard) 1932, and 2 undated letters, ?1932.; 23 February, 18 March, 20 May, 24 July...
Dates: 1930-1934.