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National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections: 2017 Accessions

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  • Robert Bonnar (fl 1917-1978), railway worker and writer: literary, political and personal papers, and minutes and papers of the National Union of Railwaymen 1917-1978 (Acc.13810)
  • Esther Breitenbach (b1950), political scientist and feminist historian: research papers 1990-2010 (Acc.13806)
  • George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), author: letters 1970-1995 (Acc.13792)
  • Robert Burns (1759-1796), poet: letter to William Niven, merchant of Maybole 1786 (Acc.13839)
  • Henry Cockburn (1779-1854), Lord Cockburn Scottish judge: notebook and journal 1821-1837 (Acc.13863)
  • Thomas Elder Dickson (1899-1978), artist: corresp, lecture notes and papers rel to professional activities 1899-1978 (Acc.13859)
  • George Francis Stewart Elliot (1822-1901), barrister and historian: corresp rel to David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition c1858-1864 (Acc.13885)
  • Christopher Harvie (b1944), professor of British and Irish studies and politician: political and research papers c1980-2015 (Acc.13797)
  • James Frederick Junor Johnston (1939-2006), major-general: military and personal papers, incl photographs c1900-2006 (Acc.13818)
  • Archibald Lundie (1674-1759), minister of Saltoun: sermons 1707-1733 (Acc.13799)
  • John MacKechnie (1897-1977), minister of St Kiaran's, Glasgow: corresp, research notes and other works incl drafts of translations and songs c1950-1960 (Acc.13865)
  • Kenneth Macleod (b1954), science fiction writer: literary papers c1970-2014 (Acc.13804)
  • Robert Lorne McGlachlan (1935-1999), journalist, academic and historian: personal papers c1950-1990 (Acc.13828)
  • Norah Mears (1887-1967), landscape gardener: letters 1908-1931 (Acc.13852)
  • William Douglas Nicoll (1922-2015), pathologist: mountaineering diaries and notebooks 1955-1987 (Acc.13874)
  • Mary Christopher Nisbet-Hamilton (1802-1883), daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin: journal 1857 (Acc.13811)
  • Trevor John Ransley (b1923), civil engineer: letters, journals, notes, sketches and maps, rel to the Scottish West Greenland Expedition, 1950 1935-1960 (Acc.13782)
  • Michael Roberts (1902-1948), author and critic: corresp, personal and literary papers, and papers rel to mountaineering 1919-1949 (Acc.13860)
  • Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman (1903-2000), historian: papers, incl corresp, diaries, photographs and lectures c1910-2000 (Acc.13883)
  • Janet Buchanan Adam Smith (1905-1999), author and journalist: corresp, personal and literary papers, and papers rel to mountaineering 1919-1999 (Acc.13861)
  • W. Gordon Smith (1928-1996), playwright: literary archive, incl playscripts and photographs c1960-1996 (Acc.13872)
  • James Stewart (1831-1905), missionary and college principal in Africa: corresp, notes, photographs and commission c1860-1900 (Acc.13862)
  • Janet Teissier du Cros (1905-1990), writer: papers c1952-1980 (Acc.13802)
  • Robert Thomas (fl 1794-1805), minister of Abdie: letter rel to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man 1794 (Acc.13780)
  • Sir John Adam Thomson (1927-2018), diplomat: personal and diplomatic papers c1895-2013 (Acc.13791)
  • Sir George Paget Thomson (1892-1975), physicist: personal and diplomatic papers c1895-2013 (Acc.13791)
  • George Wade (1673-1748), Field Marshal: report rel to Highlands of Scotland 1725 (Acc.13855)
  • Alan Warner (b1964), novelist: literary papers 1983-2015 (Acc.13778)
  • Laurence Dalrymple Maclagan Wedderburn (1885-1965), Church of Scotland missionary in China: memoir, primarily focused on his missionary work in Manchuria and war work 1957-1958 (Acc.13831)
  • Lesmoir Wimberley (b1926): letters, incl corresp as an evacuee to Tasmania during the Second World War 1940-1954 (Acc.13776)
  • William Cuthbertson Wolfe (1924-2010), chartered accountant, manufacturer and politician: personal and political papers c1950-1980 (Acc.13808)
  • James Wollen (1820-1899), servant to Admiral Sir George Elliot: diary incl details of travels to Malta, Italy, Switzerland, France and the UK 1848-1858 (Acc.13789)
  • Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925), mountaineer and travel writer: papers incl lectures, articles and photographs c1894-1913 (Acc.13773)
  • East India Co: log of the company ship 'Charles Grant' 1810 (Acc.13876)
  • Smith, Elder & Co, publishers, London: letters to members of the Smith family from authors connected with the firm c1840-1910 (Acc.13783)
  • Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics (ASTRA): records 1953-2011 (Acc.13777)
  • North East Fife Conservative Association: records incl minutes, corresp and photographs c1902-2010 (Acc.13853)
  • Description of ruins and inscriptions on Iona by John Campbell, schoolmaster at Airds 1749 (Acc.13833)
  • Compendium of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh's 'Lawes and Customes of Scotland in Matters Criminall...', written and abridged by M. Wardrobe, Bathgate 1706 (Acc.13875)
  • Albums containing Mrs Robert Nasmyth's artwork, poems and letters 1820-1850 (Acc.13878)
  • Thomas Cowan, bookseller, Haddington, manuscript drafts c1887-1889 (Acc.13882)
  • William Beattie Hadden, 42nd Highland Regiment, The Black Watch: volume of poetry c1858-1862 (Acc.13781)
  • Robert Cook: legal thesis and genealogical records 1676 (Acc.13798)
  • William Hunter of Oban, prisoner of war during the Second World War: short stories c1939-1945 (Acc.13825)