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Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents
The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates:
1617-1668, undated.
Miscellaneous volume containing notes and studies on the Bible, together with a variety of astrological, historical and cosmographical writings.
File
Identifier: MS.8187
Scope and Contents
Also included are a quantity of amorous and other verse, some anecdotes, and an article on the 1st Marquess of Montrose. It may have been compiled by one Samuel Brett, otherwise unknown, whose name appears on folio 318 verso, but more probably by several people, there being several contemporary hands (in different inks) exhibited by the leaves, which vary in size, and which contain a number of unrelated watermarks.The volume was compiled in the latter half of the seventeenth...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
Papers of Archie Lamont.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9290
Scope and Contents
Includes:
notes, articles and correspondence on geology and zoology
notes, correspondence and press cuttings on the Scottish Nationalist movement
manuscripts of poems.
Dates:
1925-1984.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.