Inventory Dep.316 Papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie
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Inventory Dep.316 Papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie, OBE National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected] © Trustees of the National Library of Scotland BOX 1 I Art a. Correspondence, 1940-1977. Writers include; Ethel Raeburn, Stanley Cursiter, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarees, the Earl of Wemyss and March, Sir John Rothenstein, Sir Norman Reid, Gabriel White, George and Barbara Mackie, John Dick, Penelope Beaton, George Bruce, Douglas Hall, David Baxandall, Anne Redpath, Elizabeth Blackadder, Margaret Thomas, Adam Bruce Thomson, Sir William MacTaggart PRSA, Sir Robin Philipson PRSA, Emilio Coia, Rt Hon Jo Grimond, Rt Hon Edward Heath, the Earl Haig, D A Allan, Ian Finlay, Marjorie Lillie, Robert Lillie. BOX 2 b. Correspondence, n.d. c. Greetings cards (some hand made) from artists, and from Lillie’s art circle. BOX 3 d. Catalogues of exhibitions which include loans from the Lillie collection. e. Material on the Lillie collection including photographs, bills for pictures, press cuttings, and lists of pictures and of exhibitions. BOX 4 f. Material on Sir William Gillies, CBE, RA, RSA, PPRSW, including photographs, correspondence, press cuttings, and notes on his career and work. g. Other papers on artistic subjects, including notes by R A Lillie. BOX 5 h. Press cuttings on artistic subjects. BOX 6 II Music a. Correspondence, 1923-76 and n.d. Writers include: M Beatrice Spencer, Robert Taylor, C Neicks, Mercedes Olivera, Sidney Newman, Kenneth Leighton, Percy Scholes, William Wordsworth, Peter Pears. b. Material on Sir Alexander Gibson and the Scottish National Orchestra. c. Notes by R A Lillie on musical matters. BOXES 7 & 8 d. Press cuttings on musical subjects. BOX 9 III Literature and philosophy a. Correspondence with the Editors of The Scotsman. b. Press cuttings of book reviews by R A Lillie, mainly in The Scotsman; and some reviews in manuscripts. c. Obituaries by R A Lillie. Subjects include: Bertrand Russell, G E Moore, Sigmund Freud, Bernard Berenson, Henri Bergson, Lord Balfour, A N Whitehead, Benedetto Croce, John Dewey, George Santayana, John Laird, Albert Schweitzer, Norman Kemp Smith; with an unpublished essay on Jan Smuts as philosopher. BOX 10 d. Letters of Norman Kemp Smith and his family; Sir Herbert Grierson; and others. e. Typescript copies of thesis by R A Lillie, ‘Coleridge’s Philosophical Influence on Wordsworth’. f. Folder of miscellaneous notes and jottings on intellectual topics. BOX 11 g. Press cuttings of literary, philosophical and cultural interest. BOX 12 IV Notebooks Twenty-two notebooks containing material on miscellaneous subjects. BOXES 13 & 14 V General correspondence, 1907-67; 1968-77, n.d. Writers include: Douglas Young, Tertia Liebenthal, Henry Harvey Wood, Sir Landsborough Thomson, Philippe Monod, W Mackintosh Mackay, Wilfred Taylor. BOX 15 VI Miscellaneous material a. Inventories of household plenishings. b. Papers by J A Lillie, QC, on the office of Sheriff. c. Typescript of BBC broadcast on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair. d. Typescript entitled ‘Changes in my time’ by Alexander Cuthbert, together with two other essays. e. Corrected copy of Poems (1967) by W M Parker. f. Signed offprints given to R A Lillie by H W Meikle, Arthur Melville Clark, D A Allan etc. g. Folder of miscellaneous material including membership cards; papers concerning Aberdeen Grammar School; and general notes. BOXES 16 & 17 VII Press cuttings on general subjects BOX 18 VIII Photographs Revised to include further material, April 1978. .