Notebooks.

'Liddesdale Notebook, 1886-89', containing rough notes of Robert Bruce Armstrong on buildings, sculptured stones, and other subjects., 1886-1889.

Item

Identifier: MS.6120

Dates: 1886-1889.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and papers of Robert Bruce Armstrong, chiefly concerning the collection of material for the unpublished continuation of his ‘The history of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land’.

Lists of Knights present at meetings of the Knights Companions of the Most Sovereign and Social Order of the Cape and of C.F.D., 1782-1818.

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS.2007-2040

Scope and Contents

The meetings are numbered from 6896 to 19930, but the numbering is very erratic. Only rarely is a minute of the meeting included. Up to MS.2028 the lists are in fascicles, which have been arranged in bundles; from MS.2029 they are in small volumes.

Dates: 1782-1818.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. / Books and papers of the 'Knights Companions of the Most Sovereign and Social Order of the Cape and of C.F.D.' (Concordia Fratrum Decus).

Literary and classical papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1742-1787, undated.

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS.25413-25417

Dates: 1742-1787, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes. / Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.

Literary and cultural papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell., 1740-1864.

Series

Identifier: MSS.4990-5005

Dates: 1740-1864.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell.

Literary and personal papers of Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts of published and unpublished books, articles, stories and poems, with associated correspondence and some genealogical material.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.6215 Box 1(a)-Box 9(d)

Dates: circa 1931-1970, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.13233

Scope and Contents Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...

Dates: 1937-1995.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Literary and personal papers of, and relating to, David Thomson.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.13259/1-78

Scope and Contents

As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 19th century, circa 1916-1996.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.13458

Scope and Contents

Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.

Dates: Circa 1966-2013.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Literary and personal papers of Marion Lochhead.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.11588

Dates: circa 1950-1985.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Literary and personal papers of Ruthven Todd.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.14015

Dates: Circa 1926-1972.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Literary and theological notes of Canon Andrew John Young., [Circa 1955]-[before 1972.]

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS.19757-19765

Dates: [Circa 1955]-[before 1972.]

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Notebooks and papers of Canon Andrew John Young, the poet and naturalist (1885-1971).

Literary manuscripts and papers of Iain Crichton Smith., 1962, 1981, undated.

Series

Identifier: Acc.12600/1-2

Dates: Majority of material found within 1962, 1981, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.

Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).

Series

Identifier: MSS.26116-26162

Scope and Contents

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: 1922-1980, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division