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Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates: Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.

Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.308
Scope and Contents

Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;

Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;

Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;

Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;

Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.

Dates: 1786-1897.

Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907-1913.

Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.

Dates: 4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.

Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents

The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).

Dates: 1700-1707, or after.

‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.

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Identifier: MS.1803
Scope and Contents There are additional sheets, inserted after page 62, containing seven poems of Henry Mackenzie written in 1825 and 1828-1829, all apparently unpublished (folios 1-5). Inserted after page 289 is a further additional sheet (folio 6) containing notes on his tragedy, 'The Spanish Father', with duplicates of pages 283-286 containing autograph notes and alterations to the text.Printed pages missing from the volume (pages 1-17, 33-48) have been supplied in manuscript in a hand not Henry...
Dates: 1825, 1828-1829.