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Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6648-6651
Dates:
1878-1881.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.323- is now Acc.13476.
Dates:
1944-1978.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
George Home of Wedderburn`s copy of "The Mirror", with manuscript notes and essay drafts inserted.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7665
Dates:
1779-1780.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates:
1836-1863 and undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10065
Scope and Contents
Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.
Dates:
1812-1816.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732, and an essay entitled `The Superstitions of Perth`, 1788, by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.13.1.1-13.1.7
Scope and Contents
This is part i of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Scott`s transcribing work is interspersed with historical notices by him.
Dates:
1241-1732, 1788.