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These are primarily documents concerning the controversy over the Service Book, the National Covenant, and ensuing events.

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The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

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Scope and Contents The manuscript contains copies of the following: (i) ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation of the tendes for union in one commonwealth, discussed’; (ii) Part of a paper respecting the controversy between Resolutioners & Protesters; (iii) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 11); (iv) Continuation of section (i): ‘The contraversie concerning the validitie of the obligation…’ (folio 20); (v) Reasons...

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Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.

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Scope and Contents From the Series: Most, but not all, of Magnusson's published works are represented. Also included here are the translations that Magnusson undertook on the work of the Icelandic author and Nobel prize winning novelist Halldór Laxness (1902-1998). Material relating to Magnusson's book on Mastermind "I've started so I'll finish" can be found in the Mastermind section.The material includes correspondence relating to book proposals, research notes compiled by Magnusson while working on his books, and...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...

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Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

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Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

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This was an address delivered to the Theological Society at New College, Edinburgh, on 18 October 1910.

Some sections (folios 11-12 and 19-21) are entirely in manuscript.

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Richard Burdon Haldane, at that time Lord Chancellor in the first Labour Government, is the subject of the address.

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Files of papers relating to the literary output of Don and Bridge MacCaskill.

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Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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This series contains typescripts of, and associated working papers for, lectures and speeches given by Ian Rankin. The working papers include research and editorial notes.

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Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.

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Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.

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The contents are as follows:

(i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'A journey through Bihar', a broadcast talk to schools by Sir Hugh McPherson, with related correspondence, 1930-1931 (folio 1);

(ii) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'The Aboriginal races of the Chota Nagpur plateau', an address to the Royal Anthropological Institute, Edinburgh, 1931 (folio 13).