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Tribute to Sir Walter Scott: papers read at the Scott Bicentenary Celebration, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.
‘True present state of the principality of Scotland with the means how the same may be … augmented’, in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.31.
‘True presentacon of forepast Parliament to the views of the Present timis and Posteritie’ by the learned antiquary and Judge John Dodderidge.
‘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’.
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’.
‘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.
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’.
‘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.
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).
‘True Rentall of each heritors estate in the shire of Fyffe as the samen was taken up be the commissioners of valuation.’
Tunes collected by Donald Stuart Macdonald, Pipe Major, 1st Battalion Royal Scots, and written down in 1882.
Twenty-eight letters of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Surtees.
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.
Twenty letters of Henry Cockburn, afterwards Lord Cockburn, to John Archibald Murray, Lord Advocate, afterwards Lord Murray, dealing with Scottish political and judicial affairs..
Twenty letters of John Gibson Lockhart, editor of the ‘Quarterly Review’, to the Reverend Whitwell Elwin, a contributor and his successor as editor.
The subjects dealt with include R P Gillies, Lord Glenlee, Lord Jeffrey, Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Twenty-six letters of William Blackwood, publisher (died 1834).
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’.
Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.
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.
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.
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.
Two cases under the Copyright Act submitted to Mr Tidd for opinion.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
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.
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.
Two holograph letters of Queen Victoria to Miss Hope Robson as governess to the children of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught.
Two legal manuscripts formerly in the collection of Robert Riddle of Glenriddle.
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).
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.
Two letters of Sam Wanamaker to Edward Gaitens concerning 'The Magic Barrel', by Bernard Malamud.
Two letters of Valentina Aksarova to Edward Gaitens.
Two melodramas by George Wilson, the author of ‘The Scottish laverock’.
George Wilson, George. 'The Scottish laverock' (Edinburgh, 1829).