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Speeches. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing the text of any public address or talk.

Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark, mostly relating to his work as a civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12598/1-56
Scope and Contents

The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.

Dates: [1923]-2005, undated.

Correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, and photocopied essays produced by the SNH Designations Taskforce set up to investigate policy relating to historic landscapes in Scotland., 1993-1998.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/1018
Scope and Contents From the Series: These papers relate to Magnusson's time working for Scottish Natural Heritage. The organisation was formed in 1992 following the amalgamation of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland. Magnusson served as the Chairman of the organisation from 1992 until 1999. The papers contain minutes from SNH meetings, papers from working groups, such as those relating to the designation of the Cairngorms as a European Heritage Area and a series of papers...
Dates: 1993-1998.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.

With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

Diaries, speeches, correspondence and other papers relating to visits to Australia by John Blythe Kinross in 1971 and 1976, and a visit to Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong in 1977., 1971, 1976-1977.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8699/16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1971, 1976-1977.

Diary of Valda Grieve., 1963.

 Item
Identifier: MS.27237
Scope and Contents

Most of the entries are brief notes of Valda Grieve's engagements and of meetings attended by Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’. There are some later notes for speeches.

Dates: 1963.

Draft of an undated speech concerning the Douglas Cause., 18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5131
Scope and Contents

There is no indication of authorship, and apparently it is not among the published speeches of the trial.

Dates: 18th century.

Drafts and notes of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1776-[1806], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.11206
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Memorandum in defence of the 1st Earl of Minto's administration of Corsica, 1797, (folio 1); (ii) Draft of a speech on the suspension of Habeas Corpus, January 1797 (folio 2); (iii) Draft of a speech in the House of Lords, 21 November 1798, on Nelson's victory in the Battle of the Nile (folio 25); (iv) Drafts of and notes for speeches in the House of Lords, June 1802-circa April 1803, against the provisions of the Peace of Amiens and the Government's handling...
Dates: 1776-[1806], undated.

Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of talks, stories, reviews and plays of Hector MacIver., 1936-1966, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26286-26287
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1936-1966, undated.

Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of talks, stories, reviews and plays of Hector MacIver., 1936-1966.

 File
Identifier: MS.26286
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1936-1966.

Drafts, manuscripts and typescripts of talks, stories, reviews and plays, undated, of Hector MacIver., [1928-1966.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26287
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: [1928-1966.]

Drafts of and notes for speeches made by the 4th Earl of Minto, with miscellaneous tickets, menus, seating plans, etc., 1911-1912.

 File
Identifier: MS.12801
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: 1911-1912.

Drafts of letters of Valda Grieve and miscellaneous papers., 1929-1986, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27239
Scope and Contents

(i) The drafts of letters of Valda, ?1934-1985, undated begin on folio 1. Some of them are in Christopher Murray Grieve’s, “Hugh MacDiarmid's” hand. There are also some notes for speeches and a few poems. (ii) The miscellaneous papers, including newspaper cuttings and photographs, 1929-1986, undated, begin on folio 32.

Dates: 1929-1986, undated.

Drafts of speeches and election addresses., Circa 1915-1961.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4826/10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

P.C, K.T, trade unionist, Labour M.P for Edinburgh West 1929-1931, West Lothian 1935-1951, Scottish Labour Whip 1935-1945, and Deputy Chief Whip 1945-1946, and Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1946-48, 1951.

Dates: Circa 1915-1961.