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A collection of lecture notes for literature courses at the University of Nairobi, 1969-1971, and manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and correspondence relating to the published works 'Revolutionary Empire' (London: Cape, 1981) and 'Waking in Waikato' (Edinburgh: Diehard, 1997).

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Concerning his doctoral thesis, books and broadcasts, his involvement in East African literature, his editorship of 'Journal of Commonwealth literature' and convenorship of the Scottish Poetry Library.

Includes lectures notes, drafts, histories, correspondence and interviews.

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This file contains a series of typescript and printed copies of Lucinda Mackay's professional curriculum vitae, in various versions, spanning the period 1983-2014. It also includes a sample of the artist's own personalised stationery paper, and three autobiographical descriptions (one e-mail and two typescript forms)

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The papers were bound up circa 1818 and include: (i) Comparison, 11 September 1805, of the versions of the accounts for 1803-1804 kept at Baroda and Bombay (folio 1); (ii) Memorandum on the Gaikwar of Baroda's account with the East India Company, 1803-1808 (folio 102).

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...

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This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.

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This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.

Scope and Contents Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity which has been operating in Edinburgh since 1835. The Deaf and Dumb Congregation in Edinburgh began meeting together in 1830 following the establishment in the city of schools for deaf children. Braidwood’s Academy for the Deaf was established in 1760 and the Edinburgh Institution [later the Edinburgh Royal Institution] for the Deaf and Dumb in 1810.The Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society was established in 1835 to assist deaf people in...

Scope and Contents James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...

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Arthur Woodburn's strong interest in economics, education, European unity, international relations, modern languages and Scottish history and literature are reflected in the papers.

Scope and Contents From the Series: James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...

Scope and Contents Hugh Macmillan was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1897 and took silk in 1912. In 1924 he became non-political Lord Advocate in the first Labour government of Ramsay Macdonald, and was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1930-1939, 1941-1947, and Minister of Information, 1939-1940. His talents for chairmanship resulted in appointments to the chair of several important committees and organisations of which the best known was the 'Macmillan Committee', the Treasury Committee on Finance and...

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The contents of the collection range from 1800 to 1847 with a few later, and many undated items. Most (about two-thirds) of the collection concern Sir Charles Stuarts years as ambassador.

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The Liberal League was formed in the spring of 1902 with the Earl of Rosebery as its President.

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The Liberal League was formed in the spring of 1902 with the Earl of Rosebery as its President.

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The Liberal League was formed in the spring of 1902 with the Earl of Rosebery as its President.

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The Liberal League was formed in the spring of 1902 with the Earl of Rosebery as its President.

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The Liberal League was formed in the spring of 1902 with the Earl of Rosebery as its President.

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The Liberal League was formed in the spring of 1902 with the Earl of Rosebery as its President.

Scope and Contents The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...

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174 letters, 1965-1974, mostly of Scottish authors to Robert Nye on literary matters.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, 1970, of a play, 'Sawney Bean', by Nye and William Watson.

Typescript drafts, 1971, of a play, 'Visakha', by Nye.