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Copy by Sir James Balfour of the diary of Robert Birrell, burgess of Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.28
Scope and Contents

Apart from a few entries at the beginning, recording major events since 1370, it covers the period between 1566 and 1603, breaking off in July of that year. All the entries concern public events.

Dates: 1566-1603.

Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.1-46.10.2
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 1793-1846.

Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.

Diary of John Nicoll, Writer to the Signet.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.1
Scope and Contents

The diary records political and other events of the time, and includes copies of proclamations and other current publications.

Dates: 1650-1667.

Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates: 1532-18th century, and undated.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

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Names
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1