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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 533 Collections and/or Records:

Diaries of Nancy Angus, with some related personal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12365/1-41
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the diaries of Nancy W Angus, the daughter of David Angus, civil engineer. They give a view first of an adolescent’s life in Chile, then of a typist’s in London, then of a Voluntary Aid Detachment, and on through her work for the War Graves Commission, and then at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Dates: 1907-1960.

Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6260-6289
Scope and Contents The diary entries consist of records of personal experiences, and rambling didactic essays. The topics include observations on religion, philosophy, current events, sex, education, music, art and literature; there are copies of songs and music, a complete essay on marriage, and accounts of travels, notably a journey to Glasgow, 1822 (MS.6260), and a sea-trip to the Irish coast (MS.6272).Some miscellaneous newspaper cuttings and catalogues are inserted in the diary; and there are...
Dates: 1822-1836.

Douglas of Cavers papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7488
Scope and Contents 1. Scrapbook inscribed `James Malcolm Palmer Douglas. This book started by his father and continued by his mother, 1948`, with pasted in letters, household accounts and bills for garden seeds, genealogical charts, invitations, menu cards, press cuttings and photographs, 1712-1948, undated.2. Plan of the Cavers Estate the property of James Douglas Esq., 19th century.3. Plan of the Cavers Estate, 19th century.4. Cavers Estate Woods, record of plantations,...
Dates: 18th century to 20th century.

Draft of a letter of Janet Milne Rae to George Douglas Brown and the original of his reply, 1902.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3618
Scope and Contents

With letter, 1949, of James Veitch to Miss Lettice Milne Rae, and three newspaper cuttings concerning to George Douglas Brown.

Dates: 1902, 1949.

Draft poetry and prose of Bill Sutherland.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14020
Scope and Contents

With press cuttings, two audio cassettes and copies of 4 publications by Bill Sutherland: 'A Clydeside Lad' (Clydeside Press, 1990); 'Highflats sonnets and other jokes' (n.p., n.d.); 'The Anatony of Wavie McSurd' (Dumbarton: The Author, n.d.); 'Sonnets of a year' (?Dumbarton: ?The Author, n.d.).

Dates: Circa 1980-2010.

Financial and legal papers and correspondence relating to the works and literary estate of James Leslie Mitchell, sometimes writing as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, including some personal papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10966/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes personal documents, publishing agreements, royalty statements and related correspondence. These papers are mostly concerned with the administration of James Leslie Mitchell's (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) literary estate following his death in 1935, firstly by his wife, Ray Mitchell, and subsequently by his daughter, Rhea Martin.

Dates: 1901-1986.

Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-6
Scope and Contents James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates: 1896-1910, 1916-1917.

Four albums of press cuttings, 1878-1964, collected by members of the Craig-Brown family.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.4447/1-4
Scope and Contents

Concerning military matters and Selkirkshire antiquities.

Dates: 1878-1964.

Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).

Dates: 2001-2012.

Further papers and photographs of William Winter Hamilton.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14270/1-4
Scope and Contents

Personal memorabilia and photographs of William W Hamilton, relating to his education at Sheffield University, 1936-1941, and political career.

Dates: 1936-1989.

Further papers of Captain Archibald D Cochrane

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14119
Scope and Contents

The papers relate to Captain Cochrane's career in politics and as Governor of Burma. They include letters from Cochrane to his wife, Julia Cochrane, 1936-1937; and correspondence between Cochrane and the British naval officers with whom he escaped in 1917 from a Turkish prisoner of war camp, 1921-1958.

Dates: 1921-1958.

Further papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14268/1-42
Scope and Contents

Comprising Lord Macmillan's commonplace books with notes on his scholarly and personal reading; papers on his professional service and appointments, including a collection of press cuttings documenting his career; and fragments of correspondence and literary drafts, with photographs and family ephemera.

Dates: 1887-1952.

Further papers of Jim Mearns.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14357/1-10
Scope and Contents Papers documenting Jim Mearns's involvement in the 1994 Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, which he attended as the delegate from the Glasgow Maryhill Constituency Labour Party [CLP]. The collection is mostly comprised of material relating to Mearns's role in the debate over Composite Motion 57, proposed by the Glasgow Maryhill CLP in defence of Clause IV of the Labour Party's constitution, and against proposals to rewrite the party's aims and values put forward by Tony Blair. This...
Dates: 1994-1995.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13405
Scope and Contents Papers, 1947-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas. The collection comprises papers, 1947-1977, concerning the death of Douglas, 14th Duke of Hamilton; correspondence, 1954-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton with George, 10th Earl of Selkirk; papers, ca. 1980-1994, relating to his death and the future of the earldom; and personal papers and correspondence, ca. 1950-1985, of Lord Selkirk of Douglas.The correspondence includes letters of several statesmen and other...
Dates: 1947-1994.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).

Dates: 1968-1983.

Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: Circa 1925-2014.

Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents

Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.

Dates: Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]

Jacobite songs written chiefly by Charles Stuart Davidson; with related notes and press cuttings.

 File
Identifier: MS.21834
Scope and Contents The volume contains songs written ‘in Ceylon in 1866’ (folio ii) by Charles Stuart Davidson and further songs added until 1899 (folio 262). These are followed by notes (folio 268) on several of the songs. A number of related press cuttings found loosely enclosed have been tipped in after the notes (folio 316) and other press cuttings are pasted in among the notes.It is not clear whether the compiler is the C S Davidson who is described as clerk in the Edinburgh Directory from...
Dates: 1866-1899.

Journal of a tour of Scotland of Elizabeth Cowburn.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14154
Scope and Contents

Elizabeth Cowburn departs from London, travelling through Scotland by train, steamer and carriage. Places visited include Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl, Inverness, Stirling and Iona. The journal includes pencil sketchess and pasted in printed illustrations.

Dates: 1854