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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 2200 Collections and/or Records:

Various letters and papers, including several press cuttings and copies of photographs, of and concerning members of the Haldane and Burdon-Sanderson families, with most of the items concerning Elizabeth S Haldane., 1849-1936, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.20034
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.

Dates: 1849-1936, undated.

Various miscellaneous papers of Ruthven Todd., 1944-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26886
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Autobiographical notes and papers, circa 1955-1975 (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of a radio interview given by Ruthven Todd, 1974 (folio 8); (iii) Miscellaneous notes and papers, 1944-1977, undated (folio 36).

Dates: 1944-1977, undated.

Vocabularies, glossaries, and other material compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., 1898-[before 1928].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.438-456
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: 1898-[before 1928].

Vocal score of the setting by Hamish MacCunn of “The Cameronian's dream”, opus 10, a ballad for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, by James Hyslop., [?1890.]

 File
Identifier: MS.21979
Scope and Contents

Tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) are press cuttings from the 'Scotsman' and the 'Edinburgh Evening News' of 28 January 1890 describing the work and reporting the concert in which it received its premiere.

Dates: [?1890.]

Volume of newspaper cuttings concerning the controversy over the surname of the poet Rob Donn., 1899

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/20
Scope and Contents

Small notebook containing newspaper cuttings of letters from a number of correspondents, discussing the question - which Morrison also raised in his edition - of whether Rob Donn was a Mackay or a Calder.

Dates: 1899

Volume of press cuttings compiled by William Soutar., 1923-1936.

 File
Identifier: MS.8767
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

Dates: 1923-1936.

Volume of press-cuttings, possibly assembled by the secretary of the Edinburgh and District Trade Council., 1914-1925.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11177/58
Scope and Contents

Illustrating the public activities of the Edinburgh and District Trade Council, and current local and national politics and industrial relations.

Dates: 1914-1925.

Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.

 File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents

The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.

Dates: [1787, or after.]

Women's Foreign Missions links to national church, containing minute books, press cuttings and correspondence., 1941-1972.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10903/8-12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.

Dates: 1941-1972.

Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4546
Scope and Contents

Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.

Dates: circa 1900-circa 1914.

Working autograph of ‘Rob Roy’ by Sir Walter Scott, with some associated papers., 1817.

 Item
Identifier: MS.50702
Scope and Contents Complete working manuscript of 'Rob Roy'.Associated content.Letter, circa 1817, of Sir Walter Scott to James Ballantyne on the completion of 'Rob Roy'. Folio i.Fragment of a sales catalogue, 4th quarter of 19th century. Folio ii.Card from Honresfield, Littleborough, marked 'Scott original manuscript of 'Rob Roy''. Folio iii.Newspaper clipping from 'The Times', 19 March 1901, on the effect of 'Rob Roy' on James Russell Lowell. Folio...
Dates: 1817.

Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents

The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.

Dates: 19th century.

Working papers of Ian Rankin for his novel ‘The Falls’, 2000-2002.

 File
Identifier: MS.50334
Scope and Contents Page 1, circa 1999, of first and second drafts of Ian Rankin’s novel 'The Falls'. Folios 1-3.Developmental, 2000, notes of Ian Rankin for his novel ‘The Falls’. Folios 4-49.The notes include research and working notes as well as editorial notes of Rankin. Also included are editorial notes of Caroline Oakley (Folio 49). Some of the notes include references to specific drafts, including first, second, and third drafts. Otherwise, the distinction between the...
Dates: 2000-2002.