Inventory

Acc.12453

George Adam Smith

National Library of Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected] © Trustees of the National Library of Scotland Additional correspondence and papers, 1897-1998, of, or concerning, Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), Principal of University and theologian. The papers mostly relate to Adam Smith’s best-known and most successful publication, The Historical Geography of the Holy Land (first edition, London, 1894). For the main series of Adam Smith Papers, see Acc.9446. Prints of photographs taken in Palestine, ca. 1904, are Acc.9314, and Acc.9447 is a collection of fifteen letters of the Indian missionary and educationist Alexander Duff (1806-1878), presented to Adam Smith.

1. A copy of the 1897 edition of The Historical Geography of the Holy Land, heavily revised throughout by the author for a subsequent edition and with additional notes, cuttings, etc., tipped into the volume.

2. A volume of pasted-up and corrected page-proofs of part of The Historical Geography, n.d. but probably of an early edition.

3. Letters (4) to GAS from Rudolph Ernest Brunnow (1859-1917), 1904, on The latter’s publication, Provincia Arabica, and on an article by GAS on Palestinian historical geography.

4. Miscellaneous letters, articles and cuttings on Palestine, 1894-1908, n,d; the file includes a letter, 1902, of Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), and copies of three articles on Biblical historical geography by GAS for The Sunday School Times.

5. Letter, 1998, to Robin Buchanan Smith, with enclosures, mostly photographs, relating to a street in Israel named after his grandfather (GAS).

6. Correspondence, 1967 with extracts from the Gallipoli diary, 1915, of the Rev. Hunter Smith (1865-1942), then a Chaplain to the Forces.