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"100 Hundred Years in Wool"

Typescript by Alexander Steven Wilson. Account of early years of Wilson Brothers, and also of his own experiences. [7pp]

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Miscellaneous receipts

Includes receipts for: The Pelman School of Memory Training, 1904; The Scottish Temperance Life Assurance Co., 1909; New Departure Coaster Hub: The World's Standard Combination Free Wheel and Brake, 1918.

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Miscellaneous letters from family and friends

Including some engagement congratulations. The correspondents include James Wilson, Margaret Wilson, Helen Primrose Wilson, James Blackburn Wilson, A. Steven, Kate Mann.

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

"The Mud Larks of the Meuse at Dinner".

Menu card with drawings and, on reverse, numerous signatures including those of some members of Section Sanitaire Anglaise No. 2 (SSA2),

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"Blackburn's Journey to the Rhine".

Single hand-written sheet listing towns passed through or stayed at during James Blackburn Wilson's advance with the 8th Black Watch, to the German border. [See also MS 82P/7-9].

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Copy transcript of diary of James Blackburn Wilson.

Details daily life and duties, with descriptions of areas in which Wilson is based. Some pages have photographs pasted on reverse [with copy print and negative of photograph of James Blackburn Wilson]. [58pp] [This diary is based on a transcript of letters contained in MS 82/6/3-5].

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Correspondence between Wilson and Lunzer Families.

Dorothea Lunzer of Graz, Austria, met Mrs [Isobel] Wilson and her son Peter at Dollar in 1932. Following up Peter's interest in stamp collecting, it was agreed that he should exchange letters with Frau Lunzer's cousin Hans Gerd. The first letters from Hans Gerd were in German, but by December 1934 he was writing in English. [Some letters also contained notes by Frau Lunzer to Mrs Wilson]. Hans Gerd's letters expressed a strong interest in outdoor pursuits such as cycling and skiing. In 1936 he was finishing Intermediate School and planning to go to Medical School. By early 1938, Hans Gerd, now a medical student, was demonstrating in sympathy with Hitler; and he welcomed the Anschlu223 when it came. By the end of the year he was doing welfare work for the party, but in 30 January 1939 he wrote that "often I wish to be an English or American. I think it's more freedom in these countries". He was worried by the threat of war, and was losing valuable medical study time to politics, but he still continued to have faith in Hitler. In 1947, Frau [Von] Lunzer wrote from Vienna mentioning that Hans Gerd was a prisoner-of-war in Yugoslavia.

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