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Correspondence, sketches, press cuttings and articles, leaflets of tourist and general interest.

Contents include: The nature of the Lordship [of the Isles], source and date unknown, 2pp (photocopy), with Sketch of ‘The Stones of Scotland’, May 2000; The strange case of Richard Demarco, by Giles Sutherland, 'Etudes Ecossaises', no 6, [19 ], pp 47-56 (photocopy); Extract on Joseph Beuys, source and date unknown; The biology of art, 'Economist', 3 April 1999, pp 93-95; A tragic treasure: sinking of the [ship] Akka in 1956, 'Scotsman', 3 March 2001; Leaflet on Cairngorm reindeer herd, August 1979, 4 pp; Glasgow Eastern Necropolis Heritage Trail, [19 ], 9 pp (Photocopy); Orwell’s England, National Theatre, [19 ], 11 pp; Addiction, by John Collee, 'Observer', [19 ], p 54; Trees for towns: extract, source and date unknown, 4 pp; 'Sacred trees in Scottish folklore', part 1, by Tess Darwin, 'Reforesting Scotland', no 10, Spring 1994, pp 8-10, with, 'Hisøy: a forest on the edge', by Brendan Hill, pp 23-26, and, 'The radical rowan': newsletter for members of Reforesting Scotland, no 6, March 1994, 4 pp; Leaflet on British hallmarks, Birmingham, Assay Office, [19 ], 12 pp; 'Vikings to blame for Scottish national dish', [19 ]; Letter from Ian Yeomans, London, 11 February 1982, endorsed ‘ Refers to HMS Edinburgh’; Eric Hoffer: the true believer [on Bartlesville Community Center, Oklahoma, USA], [19 ], 6 pp; Will of John Anderson, founding Anderson’s University, 7 May 1795, University of Strathclyde, [1996], 2 pp; MS notes of funnel colours of shipping companies trading to the Port of Glasgow up to around 1960; Extract from ‘The islands of Scotland’ by MacDiarmid, c 1939, 3 pp (Poor quality photocopy); Letter from Springburn Academy, Glasgow seeking support for Technology Exchange Visit to Washington DC in June 1997, 4 pp; UFA Fabrik Berlin, 2 pp, with leaflet on Circus Festival [in German], c 1994, 8 pp; Letter from Mary Aitkenhead, Oldham to 'Scots Magazine', October 1993, p 434, suggesting similarities between Scots and Greek words; Poster on history of the Stock Exchange, London, [19 ]; Keepers of the flame, by Mark Singer, 'New Yorker', 3 June 1991, pp 89-103 [on Tom Mix]; Fax from Neil Baxter Associates, Edinburgh on Latin phrases, 13 August 1996; Poster on the George Bennie railplane, [19 ]; Printed list of second hand booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh, [19 ], 2 pp; Six days in Ancient China through the eyes of a 19 year old girl travelling alone, by Emma ...., August-September 1998, with sketches of terracotta warriors, 15 pp; 'A tax on economic pollution', by Liam McDougall, 'Big Issue in Scotland', 20-26 April 2000, pp 22-23; Guru without credit, by Erlend Clouston, 'Sunday Times', 28 November 1999 [on Clifford Douglas and theory of social credit] (photocopy); Roman numerals [19 ]; Notes on calligraphy, by Barbara Bundy, 1984, 8 pp; 'Wilderness and the Wes't, by T H Watkins, unknown source and date, pp 324-329 [on conservation in USA], endorsed ‘Beuys was in tune with this stuff’; 'Ten thousand artists, not one master', by Satish Kumar, in 'Conversations before the end of time', by Suzi Gablik, Thames & Hudson, 1997, pp 133-154 (photocopy), endorsed ‘George, a synergic discussion!? Kenny’; Collection of articles from 'Scots Magazine'; Photograph of Demarco and colleagues in Edinburgh, [19 ]; A parbuckle: definition and sketches, [19 ]; Strategy Get Arts, Edinburgh International Festival 1970, by Cordelia Oliver, 3 pp; Cartouche from Laurie’s New chart of the Windward Passages and Bahama Islands ... by John Purdy, London, Holmes, Laurie, 1864; Cartoons re Inuit, [19 ], 2 pp; Leaflet on Eden Project, [19 ]; 'A garden to dye for', by Nick Ibbotson, unknown source and date, pp 89-92 [on natural dyes]; Press cutting re SS Persia, unknown source and date; Press cutting on Chernobyl fallout, Herald, 4 March 2003; Machrihanish: end of a dream, by Tim Wander, 'Ham Radio Today', August 1987, pp 19-22, with, Notes on Fessenden of Machrihanish, 3 pp, and, Mackinnon of Balinakill, 4 pp, and, Post card from Donald Kelly, Muasdale, Argyll, 17 June 2001; Cart Blanche: minutes of meeting held on 22 January 2003 [refers to River Cart, Glasgow]; Letter from Northlands Festival, 11 October 2001, 6 pp; Joseph Kosuth recent works: exhibition flyer, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, September-October 1987; Press cutting on redevelopment of Greenock Rope Works, 'Greenock Telegraph', 8 February 2003; 'Footprints in the shifting sand', by Oona Strathern, 'Observer', 10 March 1991, p 69 [on Arthur Rimbaud in Ethiopia]; 'Foul deeds of desecration', by Bernard Levin, 'Times', 6 June 1988 [on a Maori head]; 'Why it is futile to try to cure the malaise in Ulster’s heart', by Patrick Reilly, 'Herald', 26 July 1999; 'Cybernetic paradise that has become hell of the rat race', by Pat Reilly, Herald, 31 January 2000; 'Malevolent vision of a hated war criminal', by Ian Bell, 'Scotsman', 27 December 1996 [on Radovan Karadzic]; Press cuttings on modern art, 2001-2002; Article on vegetarianism, by Anvar Khan, unknown source and date; Press cuttings on Jools Holland, 'Observer', 7 April 2002 and Tam Cowan, unknown source and date.

Box titled W & JH Johnson 47 Lincolns Inn Fields & Glasgow.

Photocopy of manuscript volume by Robert Wright of the 1869-1870 diary with transcript by Mrs Hamilton.

'J. Henderson Perth'

Encloses notes and diagrams on diffusion of gases and copy of Roberts' Graham Lecture to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow delivered 22 January 1879.

Includes: weather reports; a pamphlet by H.R. Mill on 'Observations of the Rainband from June 1882 to January 1883'. From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1882-83, pp. 41-56; articles: ‘Long Waves of Winter Weather' by A.B. MacDowall; 'Microscopy' by J.H. Cooke; and 'Notes on Comets and Meteors' by W.F. Denning. All from Knowledge. 1 February 1900.