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‘True present state of the principality of Scotland with the means how the same may be … augmented’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.13
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.31.

Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

‘True relation of our Scots proceidings betwixt the Committee at Newcastle and the Scots Comissionars at Rippone and London since the third of August 1640’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.7
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.41.

This is a manuscript in a contemporary hand, and containing nearly the same documents as the first part of Adv.MS.33.4.6: ‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1610’.

Dates: 1640.

‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.12
Scope and Contents

This manuscript is probably the original or the earliest extant copy of the work.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the references: Jac.v.7.23 and ‘A’.

Dates: 17th century.

‘True relatione of the proceidings of those matters which concernes the Kirk of Scotland fra the first of August 1637’ by John Leslie, Earl of Rothes; with two related papers by Sir George McKenzie, first Earl of Cromarty.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.6
Scope and Contents

The volume, written under the direction of James Erskine, Lord Justice Clerk, contains the follows:

(i) ‘True relation of the proceedings which concern the Kirk from 1 August 1637’ by the Earl of Rothes, copied from a copy of the original (page 1);

(ii) 'A vindication of our reformation from the charge of tumult & rebellion' (page 349);

(iii) A notice, 1708, regarding the preservation of the volumes of the Records of the General Assemble (page 382).

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Twenty-eight letters of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Surtees.

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Identifier: MS.9308
Scope and Contents

A letter from Robert Surtees to John Trotter Brockett, 1833, is placed at the end of the volume, which also contains three engravings of Scott (folios vii, ix, and 5 verso) and a few newspaper-cuttings.

Dates: 1806-1823.

Twenty letters of John Gibson Lockhart, editor of the ‘Quarterly Review’, to the Reverend Whitwell Elwin, a contributor and his successor as editor.

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Identifier: MS.341
Scope and Contents

The subjects dealt with include R P Gillies, Lord Glenlee, Lord Jeffrey, Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Dates: [1832], 1843, 1850-1854.

Twenty-six letters of William Blackwood, publisher (died 1834).

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Identifier: MS.3551
Scope and Contents

Twenty-two of the letters are addressed to William Maginn and relate mainly to the affairs of ‘Blackwood's Magazine’, including the dispute between Blackwood and Richard Martin as a result of references to the latter in the 'Noctes Ambrosianae'. Throughout there are references to Sir Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, John Galt, and other literary figures. At the end (folio 50) is an apparently unpublished review by William Maginn of William Thomas Brande's ‘Manual of Pharmacy’.

Dates: 1824-1825, 1828, 1833.

Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents

The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.

The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.

Dates: 1733-1749.

Two albums, titled 'Autographs and Portraits', and labelled 1 and 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool, to whom several of the letters are addressed, from about 1820 to about 1840.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.967-968
Scope and Contents

The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.

Dates: 1820-1840.

Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.

 File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates: Early 18th century.

Two copies, slightly differing in wording, of reminiscences, written by the engineer Robert Stevenson in 1850, of Sir Walter Scott's northern cruise in the lighthouse yacht in 1814.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3831-3832
Scope and Contents

The reminiscences include incidents of the cruise not recorded by Sir Walter Scott in his journal of it, later episodes relating to Scott, and some general facts about Orkney and Shetland. Most of these last are used by Robert Louis Stevenson in his ‘Records of a Family of Engineers’, 1912.

Dates: 1850.

Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).

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Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.

Dates: 1941-1942.

Two letters of Valentina Aksarova to Edward Gaitens.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14251
Dates: Majority of material found within 1948, 1953.

Two melodramas by George Wilson, the author of ‘The Scottish laverock’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14237-14238
Scope and Contents

George Wilson, George. 'The Scottish laverock' (Edinburgh, 1829).

Dates: 1852-1853.

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