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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 2202 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace books, note books and song collections, partly in Gaelic, of Frances Tolmie, Rev. Alexander McDonald Cornfute Tolmie and John Tolmie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14025
Content Description A collection of nine notebooks containing songs in English and Gaelic, newspaper cuttings especially on Highland and Gaelic subjects, poetry and notes on a variety of subjects. The collection was preserved by John Tolmie, oldest son of the Rev. John William Tolmie (1831-1886, minister of Bracadale and Contin). John Tolmie, who compiled four volumes in the collection, was a nephew of Frances Tolmie, collector of Gaelic songs. Two further volumes belonged to Frances Tolmie herself, and...
Dates: 1885-1915 and undated

Composite volume made up of at least two music books containing five series of piobaireachd tunes., 1850-1890.

 Item
Identifier: MS.22124
Scope and Contents

At the front (folio v verso) are basic music instructions. A poem is written on folio 53 verso. Many of the pieces have dates, ranging from 1850 (folio 10) to 1890 (folio 52). A leaf from the ‘Army list’, 1880, containing the names of the officers of the 26th Foot, is pasted inside the front cover. Three press cuttings are pasted inside the back cover.

Dates: 1850-1890.

Copies of 12 songs of Meta Maclean.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6730
Scope and Contents

With associated photographs and press cuttings.

Dates: 1925-1939.

Copies of articles by and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto from various magazines and newspapers., 1880-1914.

 File
Identifier: MS.12802
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates: 1880-1914.

Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1877.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.4
Scope and Contents

The last volume records Campbell’s visits to Calcutta and Madras and his voyage home from Bombay via the Red Sea, Genoa, Turin, the Italian lakes and Mont Cenis.

Several press cuttings and printed items have been placed at the end of the journal, including a copy of Campbell`s ‘On Himalayan Glaciation’, extracted from ‘The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal’.

Dates: 1877.

Copy of a letter, 1875, of Bismarck to Thomas Ogilvie Smith and David Hyne Fair; with a letter, 1876, of Bismarck to the same acknowledging the gift of a copy of `The Scots Worthies`., 1875-1876, 1920.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(ii), folios 5-10
Scope and Contents

The letter, 1875, of Bismarck to Thomas Ogilvie Smith and David Hyne Fair acknowledges the gift of a copy of the Scottish National Covenant (the original in British Museum Addit. MS.38891). The letter, 1876, of Bismarck to the same acknowledges the gift of a copy of `The Scots Worthies`, edited by James A Wylie (1876).

Dates: 1875-1876, 1920.

Copy of G A B Dowar and J H Boraston, "Sir Douglas Haig`s Command".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7131
Scope and Contents

Containing letter of Dewar, and letter and presentation note of Boraston, and press cuttings.

Dates: 1922.

Correspondence, 1851-1892, undated, and papers and press cuttings, 1849-1892, undated, of James Taylor., 1849-1892, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15908
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, 1851-1892, undated, consisting chiefly of James Taylor's letters to his family in Scotland, with a few addressed to him. The series begins with Taylor's departure from London and describes life on the estates of Naranghera and Loolecondera from the early stages of clearing land in order to plant coffee, to the running of an established estate. There are descriptions of scenery, reactions to news of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, views on how to...
Dates: 1849-1892, undated.

Correspondence, 1871-1891, undated, and papers, 1872-1889, undated, concerning James Augustus Grant's genealogical researches., 1871-1891, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.17942
Scope and Contents

The correspondence begins on folio 1, and the papers on folio 74. Included are notes and histories by James Augustus Grant amd others, and the results of searches in various records, and copies of documents.

Dates: 1871-1891, undated.

Correspondence about the family of Christie, chiefly between the Reverend Dr Charles Rogers and Captain J E Christie, Governor of the Calton Jail,, 1876-1878, 1900.

 File
Identifier: MS.167
Scope and Contents

Also included are pedigrees of the Christie family and newspaper-cuttings relating to Captain Christie, to whom the correspondence belonged.

Dates: 1876-1878, 1900.

Correspondence and general papers of the Workers' Educational Association., 1925-1987.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11551/21-30
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Minutes, annual reports, correspondence and papers and some financial records mostly of the South East Scotland District of the Workers’ Educational Association, 1925-1993. The District organisation was established in November 1946, when the WEA in Scotland set up three Scottish districts (South East, West, and North) linked together in a WEA Scottish Council. In 1993 the three Scottish districts of the Association merged to form a WEA Scottish Association whose headquarters are in Riddle’s...
Dates: 1925-1987.

Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1930-2005.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Elizabeth Oliver., 1905-1946, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.24681
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Elizabeth Oliver, 1920-1945, undated, with a telegram to her husband Major Edward Oliver, 1905 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers including verses, accounts, inventories, invitations, menu cards, and newspaper cuttings, chiefly concerning India, 1918-1946, undated (folio 21); (iii) Newspaper cuttings, 1912-1946, undated (folio 137).

Dates: 1905-1946, undated.

Correspondence and newspaper clippings related to interviews and a review of novel 'The Girls of Slender Means'., 1995-1997.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/208
Scope and Contents From the Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1995-1997.

Correspondence and newspaper cuttings concerning events in Lanarkshire., 1924, 1930.

 File
Identifier: MS.6358
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, etc., concerning the survey of Glassford Bridge, Lanarkshire, made by James H Anderson, civil engineer, in May, 1924 (folio 1);(ii) Newspaper-cuttings (reports, photographs and letters) concerning the collapse of Glassford Bridge, in September, 1924 (folio 45);(iii) Correspondence and papers concerning the case raised by George Neilson, farmer in Bridgeholm and Laigh Netherfield, against the Lanarkshire...
Dates: 1924, 1930.