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Inventory Acc.12251 John Telfer Dunbar Collection Acc.12251 February 2009 Inventory Acc.12251 John Telfer Dunbar Collection 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 Correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, working papers, and collected documents, 1822-1981, undated, of John Telfer Dunbar Archaeologist and Costume Historian (1912-2003). The original subject-based order, where apparent, has been retained. John Telfer Dunbar was born in Edinburgh in 1912 and educated at Sedbergh School. By profession he was an archaeologist specializing in maritime archaeology and underwater exploration. In the mid-1950s, he was Archaeological Director of the British Underwater Research Group based in Salcombe, Devon. His book, The Lost Land. Underwater Exploration in Isles of Scilly was published in 1958. Telfer Dunbar is best known for his work on Scottish Highland and military dress. He began to collect weapons, samples of tartan, and images of Highland military and civil dress, and related manuscripts in 1928. In 1947, he succeeded Major Ian Mackay Scobie as Honorary Curator of the Scottish United Services Museum in Edinburgh. The collection includes some of Major Scobie’s working papers. In 1949, Telfer Dunbar’s collection of material on Highland dress and tartans was exhibited during the Edinburgh Festival and seen by Queen Elizabeth and other members of the royal family. His publications include History of Highland Dress, Edinburgh, 1962 and The Costume of Scotland, London, 1981. Telfer Dunbar was President of the St. Andrew Society, 1973-1979, President of the Scottish Tartans Society and Chairman of the Costume Society of Scotland. Other interests included pre-historic art, recording folk songs and tales, and experimental photography. Telfer Dunbar’s biography of the photographer M.E.M. Donaldson, ‘Herself’ The Life and Photographs of MEM Donaldson was published in 1979. During the Second World War, John Telfer Dunbar spent over three years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaysia and Thailand between 1942 and 1945. He worked on the notorious ‘Death Railway’ from Siam to Burma during the entire period of its construction. During the 1950s, Telfer Dunbar worked on a history of the Far East Prisoners of War. He was first Chairman of the Scottish Returned Far East P.O.W. Association and editor of the Association’s magazine, Scottish Pow-Wow. The collection includes numerous incoming letters to William Wilson, Tartan Manufacturers, Bannockburn. John Telfer Dunbar presented material from the firm’s archive to the National Library of Scotland in 1952 (MSS.6660-7000). The documents included here would seem to be strays. For two volumes of papers relating to the World Federation of Scottish Societies and Individuals, 1959-1970, presented to the NLS by John Telfer Dunbar in 1976, see Acc.6639. For related material bought in 2004 see Acc.12390. Deposited, 2003and 2009 1 Correspondence 2-3 Journal 4-8 Scrapbooks 9-58 Working papers 59-61 Papers of Major I H Mackay Scobie 62 Original documents 63-69 Printed material 70-87 Additional items deposited January 2009 1. Correspondence Most of John Telfer’s Dunbar’s correspondence is enclosed in his scrapbooks and folders of working papers. The letters described here were found loose. 1. Letters, 1944–1981, n.d., including Christmas cards from Jacques Laudy. 2-3. Journals 2. ‘The Years of Captivity’, 1945, being John Telfer Dunbar’s fair copy of his journal written when a Prisoner of War in Malaya and Thailand, 1942-1945. 3. Journal, scrapbook and notes of a visit to Venice and Corvara, Italy, 1965. With printed promotional brochures and timetables. 4-8. Scrapbooks Scrapbooks, 1936-1975, consisting of miscellaneous material. Other scrapbooks relating to specific interests for which there are files of working papers, have been placed in the relevant sections. 4. Invitations, menu cards, photographs and press cuttings, 1936-64, n.d., gathered for inclusion in a scrapbook. 5. Scrapbook with newspaper cuttings, photographs, programmes and menu cards, 1941-1952, n.d., many relating to Telfer Dunbar’s history of the Far East Prisoners of War, 1952, and H M Queen’s visit to Scotland of 1953. Material found loosely enclosed has been placed at Acc.12551/6. 6. Newspaper cuttings, invitations, menu cards, photographs, posters and notes, 1951-1975, found loosely enclosed in Acc.12551/5. 7. Scrapbook with photographs, press-cuttings and printed items relating to H M Queen’s visit to the Saltire Society’s ‘Old Highland Tartans’ exhibition from the John Telfer Dunbar Collection at Gladstone’s Land, Edinburgh, 1949, the publication of The History of Highland Dress, 1962, and controversy surrounding pre-1745 tartans. 8. Scrapbook, 1959, of letters and notices, relating to Am Fasgadh, the Highland Folk Museum, Kingussie and the Friends of Am Fasgadh Association. 9-58. Working papers Folders of working papers arranged by subject. The folders consist largely of John Telfer Dunbar’s notes and collected original documents, press cuttings, photographs, printed ephemera including exhibition catalogues, leaflets and booklets. The original order has been retained where apparent. 9. Prehistoric Art 10-12. Underwater Exploration 13-32. Highland Dress 33-47. Military Dress and Armour 48-49. MEM Donaldson 50-56. Costume 57. Scottish Navy 58. Official Tartan Map 9. Prehistoric Art 9, Card index, sketches, photographs, printed articles and press cuttings, 1950s, n.d., on prehistoric art. 10-12. Underwater Exploration 10. Letters, typescripts, printed programmes, newsletters, notices and press cuttings, 1955-1958, relating to Telfer Dunbar’s underwater explorations off the coast of Devon and related activities. 11. Drafts, 1958, for The Lost Land. Underwater: Exploration in the Isles of Scilly. 12. Photographs, 1955, n.d., of John Telfer Dunbar and others on shore and underwater. 13-32. Military Dress Working papers and material collected by John Telfer Dunbar in connection with his research on military dress. The files include some correspondence, notes and articles of Major Ian Mackay Scobie. For other Mackay Scobie papers see Acc.12551/59-61. 13 Letters, notes, photographs and other images, 1922, n.d., relating to the dress of the 72nd Regiment. 14. Folder entitled ‘Dress of the 72nd Regiment’, 1930-49, n.d., including ‘notes on Early 72nd History’ by Major Mackay Scobie, notes, sketches, photographs and samples of tartan. Numerous original documents, have been pasted in. These include ‘Return of Sick of His Majesty’s 72nd Regiment, 1790, and 17 letters to William Wilson and Company, Tartan Manufacturers, Bannockburn, 1808-27, and related receipts 15. Correspondence (largely letters to Ian Mackay Scobie and John Telfer Dunbar), notes, sketches and cuttings, 1927-1969, n.d., relating to Scottish military dress. With cuttings of ‘The Prospect of Prince’s Island’ and ‘The sight of Cape lopo Gonsaluez’, 18th cent. See Acc.12251/16 for related photographs. 16. Photographs found with Acc.12251/15. 17. ‘Culloden’, 1928-1983, n.d.: correspondence, notes, press cuttings, photographs and sketches of Highland dress, exhibition catalogues, printed booklets, and maps concerning Culloden and the Jacobites. With press cuttings from the Aberdeen Journal, 1831-1930 concerning the ’45, and typescript of ‘Alasdair’s Revenge. A Story of the ‘45’ by Major Mackay Scobie, 1830-1983. 18. ‘The Gorget’, 1932-1965, n.d. 19. Folder, 1939-1949, n.d., containing notes, sketches, photographs, letter to Mackay Scobie, 1939, and cuttings, concerning Scottish military dress. 20. ‘Bayonets, swords and pole weapons’, 1939-1951, n.d. With notes on the R.L. Scott Catalogue of his collection of Arms and Armour and annotated sales catalogues, 1894-1951. 21. Copies of letters of Sir David Baird in the National War Museum of Scotland, 1947-1948, n.d., with related notes and printed articles. 22. File relating to the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, 1948, n.d., including letters, notes, photographs and typescript for ‘Dress of the 93rd’ by E A Campbell for Brigadier A.E.J. Cavendish, The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, 1928, and drafts on ‘The Regimental Tartan’ by Major I. H. Mackay Scobie, n.d. 23. Folder entitled, ‘42nd 1818-1887, 2nd Batt. 42nd 1780-1882, Black Watch to date’, consisting of printed articles, photographs, sketches, and bill of William Wilson, Tartan Manufacturer, Bannockburn, 1844-1936, n.d. 24. Volume entitled ‘A History of the Dress of the Black Watch, 1742-1816 by Capt. J. Telfer Dunbar, F.S.A. (Scot), Hon. Curator. Scottish National Naval & Military Museum’ consisting largely of plates and photographs. 25. Draft for H. D. MacWilliam, Origin of the Black Watch, 1725-1739’, 1935, with an introduction by I. H. Mackay Scobie. This work appeared serially in the Celtic Monthly, Vols. XXI-XXII, 1913-1914. With 4 letters of H.D. MacWilliam to Skeoch Cumming, 1910. 26. Annotated copy, n.d., of Charles B. Balfour, The Scots Guards, Glasgow, 1919, with numerous loose and pasted in images and notes and loose letters of the author to Skeoch Cumming, 1921 and John Graham to Mackay Scobie, 1933-34. 27. Folder entitled ‘ 78th, 1793-1886’, consisting largely of printed and typescript extracts from Major H. Davidson’s History and Services of the 78th Highlanders, and manuscript notes on the same. With seven letters of and to William Wilson, Tartan-Manufacturer, Bannockburn, 1813-1868, typescript ‘Notes re Captain Colin Mackay in command of the Grenadier’s Company of the 78th Regiment at the Battle of Elhamed, 1807’ extracted from ‘A Soldier’s Diary’, and tartan samples, n.d. 28. Folder of press cuttings, notes, photographs, sketches, printed articles and a letter on military dress, 1941-1970, n.d. 29. ‘Les Gardes Ecossais’: notes, sketches and cuttings from printed books and articles, 1947, n.d. With letters to Major Mackay Scobie. 30. ‘Edinburgh Town Guard’, 1948-1950 (includes pages from John Kay’s Original Portraits, 1842).
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