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Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Manuscript notes and writings of George Mackay Brown, including journal entries, lists, drafts of a short story, review, and poems.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes' collection of Jacobite papers, volume 4.
Microfilm of ‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes's collection of Jacobite papers, volume 2.
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
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.
Miscellaneous items.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Miscellaneous papers.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.
As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.
Papers of "Cencrastus".
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories and poems, and business records including minute books, corrspondence and accounts.
Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.
With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Records of the Edinburgh dining club, The Friday Club, formed in June 1803 and continued until 1850, prefaced by a long autograph memorandum by Lord Cockburn.
The volume contains accounts kept by John Richardson, original bills from taverns and hotels, and an incomplete series of the club's printed fixture-cards.