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Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
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Identifier: MS.14274
Scope and Contents
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Dates:
1868-1872.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
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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 George Douglas Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.6804
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
school essay, "Science and Intellectual Philosophy; their Aims and Relations"
letter of Brown, on the death of his mother
notes and transcriptions, undated, of Brown.
Dates:
circa 1890-circa 1902.
Papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6120
Scope and Contents
Including:
1. typescript of note, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, on lady doctors
2. typescripts, 20th century, of works of fiction and essays on feminisim of Naomi Mitchison, with books
3. 2 letters, 1915, of Mary E Haldane to Naomi Mitchison.
Dates:
circa 1880 to 20th century.