Edwin Scrymgeour Collection Box 18

This material is held atDundee Local History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 615 ES/18
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1908 - 1938
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Papers of Edwin Scrymgeour (E.S.), including:

The Tinker's Bairn - A Romance of Pitlochry by E.S. "who hopes for its acceptance" - "an original story founded on facts" [ms., 31 pages, with letter of refusal from Tit-Bits, London], n.d.

Diary and address book, c. 1938 [1 vol.]

Should Scotland Go Dry?, ms. draft by E.S. of his opening speech in British Broadcasting Corporation debate, 1934

Real Strength of Britain Movement - circular from S.P.P. seeking new subscribers to Scottish Prohibitionist and more subscriptions; denounces those who are seeking "for materialist reasons only" the temporary cessation of the drink traffic, July 1916

Various ms. articles, notes, songs, poems and drafts of lectures written by E.S. or copied by him, n.d.

Subscription book, 1913-16

Notebook including account of Carrie A. Nation's speech at Convention; refers to proposal to have her come to Britain under auspices of Scottish Prohibition Party, c. 1908

The Prohibition Party's Manifesto replying to Grand Lodge Executive of the International Order of Good Templars, ms. copy, n.d.

Reminiscences concerning James Scrymgeour written by E.S. including references to J.S.'s relationship with Lord Kinnaird, the "Inner History of the Kinloch Monument" and Capt. Laws of the 1st F.V.R.

Access Information

Publicly accessible