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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 2179 Collections and/or Records:

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).

Dates: 1968-1983.

Further papers relating to the preparation and publication of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1951-1954.

 File
Identifier: MS.50199
Scope and Contents Typescript, [?1951 or ?1952]: ‘List of journals containing articles to be incorporated in projected book, and of articles in question’. Folios 1-2.Typescript list, [?1951], of suggested titles for the work by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn subsequently published as ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’. The list has been annotated to suggest the most suitable title. Folio 3.Carbon copy of folio 3. The carbon copy has not been annotated. Folio 4....
Dates: 1951-1954.

Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: Circa 1925-2014.

Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents

Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.

Dates: Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]

General correspondence of John Duncan Hamilton, arranged chronologically., 1894-1930, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.24
Scope and Contents

Hamilton frequently wrote to authors to point out errors and misprints in their works, and much of this correspondence consists of the authors` replies. A few of Hamilton`s own notes and press-cuttings are included.

Dates: 1894-1930, and undated.

Geological sketchbook of John Francis Campbell for the most part containing annotated rock rubbings made on his travels in Great Britain, along with various other geological notes and sketches., 1862-1864.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.3.23
Scope and Contents The volume begins by describing several visits Campbell made to mines in Wales and the South of England while he was involved in collecting information and witnesses for the Mines` Commission, of which he was Secretary, in 1863 (folios 3-17). There are also a few watercolours made on a visit to Ireland in 1863 (folios 19 verso-30).One or two letters have been inserted in the volume, mainly from Sir Kenneth S Mackenzie of Gairloch and his gamekeeper, 1863-1864, and a few press...
Dates: 1862-1864.

Grangerised and heavily corrected copy of ‘A handful of heather’ (Aberdeen, 1893) by Charles Murray., 1893.

 File
Identifier: MS.27258
Scope and Contents

Only twelve copies were printed, some of which Charles Murray later destroyed. Some of the poems are annotated with references to magazines in which they were published. The insertions are cuttings of published poems and (page 73) extra copies of pages 37-44 of ‘A handful of heather’.

Dates: 1893.

Highland economy and education, ca. 1965-1966

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14003/31
Scope and Contents

Notebook containing notes and drafts of letters sent to newspapers on Highland economy and landlords, and education in Highland schools. With newspaper cuttings and a letter of Capt. J. Harvey Macpherson loosely inserted. Begun from both ends, with the text begun from the back entered in reverse page order.

Dates: ca. 1965-1966

Incomplete manuscript of a review for the "Quarterly Review" : "A Year in Spain. By a young American", by Washington Irving., 1831.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42313
Scope and Contents The manuscript is a review of a publication by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie. It includes several pages from Mackenzie`s work, each bearing annotations in Irving`s hand.Correspondence between the folios of the manuscript and the pages of the printed article :folios 1-12 = pages [319]-323;folios 13-27 = pages 329-333;folio 28 - not included in the published article;folio 29 = page 334;folios 30-31 = page 339;...
Dates: 1831.