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Professional papers.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents amassed in the course of the execution of a vocation, career, or occupation, including correspondence, memos, official forms, etc.

Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:

Literary works and other papers of Elspeth Davie.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10631/1-40
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.

Dates: 1871-1992.

Microfilm of papers of John Rennie and his family.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.341
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Papers, [?Circa 1783-?1821] (Acc.5111, numbers 33, 34);

Letter book, 1793-1794, of John Rennie (MS.19936);

Letter book, 1800, of John Rennie (MS.19937).

The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: [?Circa 1783-?1821.]

Microfilm of the Indian Papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, 1806-1814 (Microform Academic Publishers). 

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1910
Scope and Contents

The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.

The dates are taken from the records for the original manuscripts and might not be the specific dates of the documents on each microfilm.

Dates: 1806-1814.

Microfilm of the Indian Papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, 1806-1814. Reels 37-136.(Microform Academic Publishers).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2116-2219
Scope and Contents

The microfilms in this series have been described to a basic standard.

The dates are taken from the original accession record and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: 1806-1814.

Papers and correspondence of Professor John Dover Wilson (1881-1969), the Shakespearean scholar.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.14306-14400
Dates: Majority of material found within 1892-1968, undated.

Papers, including correspondence, radio plays and dramatisations, of Ian Sherwood Munro; with material relating to his publication 'Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (Edinburgh, 1966).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4883/1-21
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

original manuscript and corrected typescript of "Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (Edinburgh, 1966); manuscript and broadcast scripts of eight radio plays and dramatisations, 1962-1968; 16 letters, 1959-1968, to Ian S Munro, correspondents including C M Grieve and Willa Muir.

Dates: 1959-1968, undated.

Papers, including correspondence, research notes, press cuttings and printed materials, of Dr Sue Innes, mostly concerning her research into the subjects of citizenship, women and gender studies.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12633/1-45
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, manuscript and typescript research notes, annotated typescripts of research papers, newscuttings and printed materials. Most of the material is undated.

Dates: Circa 1990-2005, undated.

Papers, including journals, scrapbooks, press cutting books, photographs and other items of Sir Robert Heatlie Scott and Lady Rosamond Aeliz Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8181 Box 1(1)-Box 2(20)
Scope and Contents

The collection relates particularly to Sir Robert Scott's wartime imprisonment in Singapore (1942-1945), and to his period as Commissioner-General in South East Asia.

Dates: 1923-1982, undated.

Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.

Dates: 1933-1961, undated.

Papers, mostly professional, of David Hope, Lord Hope of Craighead, with related ephemera.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13568/1-90
Scope and Contents James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, KT PC FRSE, senior judge, first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, was born on 27 June 1938. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Rugby School. After national service as an officer with the Seaforth Highlanders (1957-1959), becoming a Lieutenant, he was an open scholar at St John's College, Cambridge University, where he read Classics (1959-1962). On his return to...
Dates: 1953-2014.

Papers of Alan Bissett relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13720/1-2
Scope and Contents

Includes typed and handwritten drafts of articles and spoken word pieces relating to the Scottish Indepdence Referendum 2014; polling card for 18 September 2014; and letter relating to National Collective's 'Cultural Ambassador' scheme.

Dates: [?2012-?2014]

Papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25161-25174
Scope and Contents Charles Grant was born in Mauritius in 1749, was brought up in Normandy and went into the army. He was created Vicomte de Vaux in 1777, and Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Louis in 1790. As a result of the French Revolution he went into exile in 1790, first in Jersey and later in London in 1793. Here he put himself forward for an administrative post in Canada and tried to raise an emigre regiment to be commanded by himself. His papers reflect his career and interests, and he made use of some...
Dates: 1676-1824, undated.

Papers of Dr Thomas Ian Rae, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10876/1-42
Scope and Contents

Papers of Thomas I Rae, Keeper of Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland, mostly relating to his work as a Scottish historian.

Dates: 1957-1989, undated.