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Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11878
Scope and Contents
Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.
Dates:
1812-1831.
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
File
Identifier: MS.107
Scope and Contents
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Dates:
1720-1733.
Letters and papers of the Fothringhams of Powrie, the 4th Earl of Perth, and the Blairs of Balthayock.
File
Identifier: MS.3288
Scope and Contents
The Blairs and Fothringhams were connected by marriage, and the Earl of Perth had dealings with the Blairs. Many of the letters are addressed to David Drummond, Advocate and Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, who looked after the Earl of Perth's affairs and may be the David Drummond as whose servant the Earl disguised himself when trying to escape in 1688.The contents are as follows.(i) Letters written by Sir Alexander Fothringham of Powrie to his mother, Lady Blair...
Dates:
1632-1786, undated.
Letters and papers relating to the estate of Durris, Kincardineshire.
File
Identifier: MS.137
Scope and Contents
The chief correspondents are Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough [‘Peterborrow’], the owner of the estate through the marriage of the 3rd Earl to a daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser; Samuel Mitchelson, Writer to the Signet, his agent in Edinburgh; and Charles Forbes of Shiels and Charles Irvine of Cults, successively factors on the estate. The letters of the Earl contain nothing but claims for remittances; the papers are the accounts of the estate. The letters throw light on the...
Dates:
1741-1755.
Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).
File
Identifier: MS.50256
Scope and Contents
Estimate, 1852, supplied by R and R Clark, printers, for production costs for a half-crown illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 1).Copy of a memorandum, 1852, between A and C Black and Co and Matthew Urlwin Sears concerning the production of woodcuts for the illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 2).Letters, 1852-1853, of Matthew Urlwin Sears to A and C Black and Co concerning the production and supply of woodcuts for the illustrated editon of...
Dates:
1852-1853
Letters to, and draft letters of, David Ogilvy, merchant at the Edinburgh Ropeworks, Leith.
File
Identifier: Acc.12526
Scope and Contents
Includes four financial accounts and a letter to Ogilvy`s uncle, Alexander, relating to shipping and merchandise.
Dates:
1786-1788.
Letters to, and drafts of replies of, John Cay, the Convenor of the Finance Committee of the Faculty of Advocates, and other papers.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/12
Dates:
1833-1838.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript notes and writings of George Mackay Brown, including journal entries, lists, drafts of a short story, review, and poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.13910
Scope and Contents
Assorted fragments of manuscript writing, including:A list of essays by George Mackay Brown for a proposed collection, 'drawn up with Brian Murray 23 November 1992'.A letter, 1993, from Celtic Cross Press concerning a review for 'A girdle round the moon', by Christopher J Moore, with notes of George Mackay Brown concerning the book written on the envelope.A manuscript draft, Christmas Eve 1981, of a story beginning 'The yellow dynasty it was called'....
Dates:
1979-1992, undated.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
File
Identifier: MS.50263
Scope and Contents
A recipe for gunpowder (folio i).Case notes, 1729-1730, possibly written at Glasgow Infirmary (folios 1-19).Sketch financial accounts and copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to Normand MacLeod, Daniel MacLeod and John Nicolson concerning the export of linen and import of tobacco, sugar and rum between New England, Glasgow and the Western Isles (folios 20-28).Copy letters, 1740s, of Normand Morison to unnamed relatives concerning emigration from the...
Dates:
1729-1759.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of Church of Scotland Missionary Archive. Part 1. Missions to India and China 1829-1933. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1717-1723
Dates:
1829-1933.
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of, or associated with, Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1171
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence and poems, [?1787-?1795], of Robert Burns (MS.15951); Fragments of the autobiographical letter, 1787, of Robert Burn to Dr John Moore (MS.15952);Letters, poems, accounts, etc., 1783-1796, undated, of Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson, mounted in an album titled 'Burns MSS' (MS.586);
Letters, etc., late 18th century-early 19th century, associated with Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson....
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Microfilm of family papers of the Grahams of Airth, notably of and concerning Charles Stirling, the estate of Ardoch Penn and Jamaica.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2079-2081
Dates:
1775-1835.
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.907
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).
Dates:
[?1747-?1812].
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
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 documents concerning Montrose and Angus, the Covenanters and other matters.
File
Identifier: MS.5407
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous documents, 1539-1838, relating to the burgh of Montrose and the surrounding country. They include papers relating to the Priory (folios 5-6, 11) and the town council (passim), the death-roll of the Plague, 1648 (folio 18), and fragments of the treasurers' accounts, 1676-1704 (folios 37-53); from folio 54 onwards are a number of legal papers, some fragmentary, mainly concerning lands in Angus.(ii) Miscellaneous documents,...
Dates:
1539-1838.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
17th century-circa 1754.
Miscellaneous items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Abstract in English of Gerard Goris`s treatise on mercury, ‘Mercurius Triumphator’, probably made from the Leyden edition of 1717. Written in three hands of the early 18th century (folio 1).(ii) `The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr. Lib. J.H. Aug. 27. 1705.` A copy in two hands, of Daniel Defoe`s verse satire, published anonymously in London (with the false imprint `Dantzick`) in 1705 (folio 20). It is followed (folio 41) by a...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates:
1644-1760, undated.