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The papers contain some interesting examples of juvenile handwriting and sketching.

Scope and Contents Letters, 1845-1870, of George Grote and Harriet Grote to John Murray III, with related letters and papers dating to 1877. The letters are arranged in chronological order. The letters of George Grote concern his 12 volume “A history of Greece”; the letters of Harriet Grote concern partly her husband’s work but also her own writings, including her “Memoir of the life of Ary Scheffer”. The letters are arranged in alphabetical order by name, then by date under each correspondent....

Scope and Contents From the Series: Peter Oliver served with Coke's Rifles during the Second World War until his death on active service in Burma in 1945. Included here are papers relating to his army career. However, he is better known as a mountaineer, and particularly as a member of two unsuccessful Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. Climbing regularly in the Himalayas and to a lesser extent in the Alps during the 1930s, Oliver's papers are noteworthy for his detailed climbing journals, his articles on mountaineering,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...

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This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.

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The inverted folios contain miscellaneous notes, mostly concerning the James Leslie Mitchell's house and furniture, and a timetable of Mitchell's day (folio ll inverted).

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A complete map of his route with lists of principal places visited is pasted into the volume (folios 2-5). Also bound into the book are a timetable of mail coaches in Leinster, Munster and Connaught (folio 14), some press cuttings and printed ephemera.

Scope and Contents The papers include accounts and abstracts of traffic on the railway, together with minutes of some Annual General Meetings, annual reports, etc., 1840-1833 (folio 1); fortnightly and then four-weekly statements of revenue and expenditure, 1842-1848 (folio 39); a report of an accident, 1841 (folio 103); a book of 'Rules and regulations to be observed by contractors' working on the line, 1846 (folio 110); Acts of Parliament relating to the capital of the company (folio 122); a proposed...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...

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Magnusson served as Rector at the University of Edinburgh from 1975 until 1978. He also served as Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University from 2002 until 2007. The papers relate to Magnusson's election campaign and his various engagements at the two Universities.

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Magnusson was on the judging panel.

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,...