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Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.

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Identifier: MS.8907
Scope and Contents

The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.

Dates: 1868-1885.

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.

Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).

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Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents

The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Exercise-book, containing 'Lord John, a Fife Tale', a poem, ?1895, by Thomas Swan, handloom weaver, Leslie, Fife.

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Identifier: MS.3015
Scope and Contents

Other poems (one of circa 1893) and letters with which Thomas Swan sent them to Professors David Masson and John Chiene, 1895, have been inserted at the beginning.

Dates: [Circa 1893], 1895.

Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14023/1-4

Leaf of a letter of James Elroy Flecker to Trelawney Dayrell Reed.

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Identifier: Acc.8264
Scope and Contents

Containing manuscripts of two Bathrolaire sonnets.

With a copy of "Bridge of Fire" (1907), in which the above sonnets were published.

Dates: circa 1908.

Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.

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Identifier: Acc.12476
Scope and Contents

Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".

Dates: 1993-2004.

Printed copy of "The Estate of Poetry" by Edwin Muir.

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Identifier: Acc.12172
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Willa Muir of (1) T S Elliot, 1962 (2) Helen Sutherland, 1963; with two other Edwin Muir volumes.

Dates: 1962-1963.`

Two letters of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, to John Young.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7964
Scope and Contents

Acknowledging and commenting on Young`s, "Lochlomond Side and Other Poems" (Glasgow, 1872), and "Pictures in Prose and Verse" (Glasgow, 1877).

Bound with copies of the books.

Dates: 1876-1877.

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