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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.

 File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates: 1696-1891, undated.

Final, or fair copies of musical compositions, 1958-1967, by Martin Dalby, many in his autograph, arranged in chronological order.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22142-22143
Scope and Contents

The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.

Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.

Dates: 1958-1969.

Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates: 1177, 15th century-1924.

Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates: Late 17th century-?1829.

Twenty songs and choruses of George Frideric Handel, composer.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6301 [BH.Add.48]
Scope and Contents

The works are from the oratorios "Alexander's Feast", 'Samson', 'Deborah', 'Occasional Oratorio', 'Saul', 'Susanna', 'Judas Maccabaeus', and the "Ode for St Cecilia's Day", in vocal score; with two marches, from the 'Occasional Oratorio', and 'Judas Maccabaeus', arranged for keyboard. They are written in a professional hand, and most of them include a note of performance time.

The music begins on folio 7, the preceding folios containing a contents list.

Dates: 1733-1749.