Correspondence.
Found in 7214 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan.
Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of the poet, Helen Cruickshank (1886-1975).
Born in Angus, Helen Cruickshank worked in the Civil Service until her retirement in 1944. She became the secretary of the Scottish centre of the International PEN Club, and included many literary figures among her friends. Her autobiography, ‘Octobiography’ (Montrose, 1976), was published posthumously.
Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Papers of the Pride of Midlothian Lodge of the National Independent Order of Oddfellows.
Papers of the Rev Dr Neil Ross, Gaelic scholar and poet.
Papers of the Reverend Alexander G Macalpine.
Concerning Livingstonia.
Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.
Includes sermons, lectures, notes for published works, correspondence, pastoral notebooks and diaries.
Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.
Includes theological and personal correspondence.
Papers of the Reverend Professor Franz Hildebrandt.
Includes personal documents and correspondence.
Papers of the Reverend Ronald Middleton Farquhar, Minister of Monigaff in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, relating to parish, presbytery and other local affairs.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to essay competitions., 1957-1963.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to loyal address and dinners., 1897-1973.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to student prize scheme., 1931-1976.
Papers of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, relating to student prize schemes, and essay competitions., 1890, 1931-1976, undated.
Papers of the Rutherfurd family of Edgerston.
Including deeds and legal and financial papers, with some correspondence.