Includes papers concerning international congresses held in Edinburgh in 1950 and 1997. Also containing some earlier material relating to congresses and membership.

Includes correspondence, concert programmes, notes and speeches.

Comprising manuscript scores of musical compositions, including the opera "Nubia", concert programmes, press notices, and letters and copies of letters to Henschel from correspondents including: Princess Louise, A J Balfour, Gordon Bottomley, and Sir D Y Cameron.

Includes correspondence, lectures, reports and photographs.

Including family correspondence.

From 1891 to 1925, Sir Hugh was in the Indian Civil Service, first in Bengal and from 1912 in Bihar and Orissa. The papers concern his career but also reflect his interest in walking and climbing in the Himalayas, an interest shared by his son.

Mostly concerning his work as a member of the Supreme Council of Justice of the Ionian Islands.

Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats, was the son of Sir William Murray, Baronet, of Dunerne (created 1630), and Lady Margaret Alexander, daughter of William, 1st Earl of Stirling. Janet, Sir Patrick Murray’s daughter and heiress, married Sir Charles Halkett, Baronet, of Pitfirrane (created 1671). Sir Patrick was a successful financier who obtained a number of estates and consequently had various landed designations.

Correspondence and papers, 1943-1964 mostly relating to his work as a town and regional planner, of Professor Sir Robert Grieve (1910-1995), Chief Planner, Scottish Office, 1960-4, Professor of Town and Regional Planning at Glasgow University, 1964-74, and the first Chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board, 1965-70. Many of the files relate to his work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan (1944-6).

The papers concern: Robert Liston's career as tutor to the sons of Sir Gilbert Elliot; the period from 1771 to 1773 which he spent in applying, unsuccessfully, for various posts; his assisting Gilbert Stuart in editing 'The London Magazine'; and the beginning of his diplomatic career, as secretary to Hugh Elliot in Munich and as Chargé d'Affaires to the Imperial Diet in Ratisbon, 1774-1776.

Robert Liston was sent on an extraordinary mission to Denmark empowered to sign a convention with Denmark and Russia guaranteeing that peace would not be concluded with France until any territories Denmark lost had been restored to her. After the closing by the British of the Elbe and the Weser, any prospect of a rapprochement with Denmark faded and Liston was recalled.

Robert Liston's general instructions were to report on the progress of the Russo-Swedish war, and the official papers contain copies of reports from Swedish generals. His reports also deal with the internal structure of the Swedish government, and with economic affairs. There is a long memorandum on economics drawn up by a Swedish statesman for Sir John Sinclair, who had asked Liston to secure such a report for him.

In 1802 Robert Liston was instructed to put the relations between the new Republic and Britain on a good footing. After the outbreak of hostilities between France and Britain in 1803, he received orders to return immediately if France would not give guarantees to respect Batavian neutrality by withdrawing her troops.

Robert Liston's main work during his stay in America was to implement the various clauses of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, negotiated by John Jay in 1796. Difficulties arose over the settling of the claims of the British merchants for debts left unpaid at the Revolution, and over the Maine boundary. Liston's dispatches describe the negotiations between the Americans and British about the island of Santo Domingo and also comment on internal American politics and society.

In 1777 Robert Liston accompanied Hugh Elliot, again as secretary, to Berlin, where he remained until October 1781, when he was offered the post of secretary to Lord Mountstuart in Turin.