Speeches. Documents.
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
Two speeches of the Reverend Dr Robert J Drummond.
Made on the occassion of the Union of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland.
Typed transcripts of radio broadcasts by Denys Hay on "Aspects of the Renaissance".
Typescript, 1991, of a talk on maps delivered by Dorothy, Lady Dunnett at the launch of "The Scot and his Maps" and written by Margaret Wilkes.
Includes a copy of Miss Wilkes`s reply and a note by her, 1998, setting out the background to the Dunnett speech and the occasion of its delivery.
Typescript of a BBC broadcast talk of Ian McIntyre, "Speaking for Myself".
Typescript of an address on Robert Louis Stevenson delivered by R A Knox to the Stevenson Club in 1949.
The typescript was marked by R A Knox to indicate pauses and points of emphasis.
A letter of Knox to Sir Randall Philip, Sheriff of Ayr and Renfrew, concerning the deposit of the address in the National Library of Scotland, is also included.
Typescript of an address to the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, probably by William F Arbuckle.
Typescript of speech of James Irvine, given at the opening of the National Library of Scotland Susan Ferrier exhibition.
Typescript of "Toast to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns" by Ronald Selby Wright
Typescripts of a poem, "Moon Men", and a speech, "The Spirit of Scotland" by George Bruce.
Typescripts of talks of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia.
With two letters of the Reverend Thomas M Donn to Thomson, and cuttings.
Volume containing notes and speeches on some questions debated in the Theological and Belles Lettres Society, in the hand of William Lothian, Minister of Canongate Church, Edinburgh.
At the end of the volume are additional notes on the `Value and Proportion of Ancient and Modern Coins` and `Signification and Use of some Words` extracted from Johnson`s English Dictionary.
A scrap of paper (pages 201-202) containing draft notes of the debate on polygamy (pages 102-106) which was found loosely enclosed between pages 106 and 107 has been tipped in after page 200.
Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.
Written copy of the last speech from the scaffold of Rev. William Paul.
Concerns Paul`s Jacobite sympathies and support prior to his execution at Tyburn in 1716.