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Contemporary copy of Sir Ralph Sadler`s correspondence during his embassies to Scotland in 1539-1540 and 1543.
Copies, 17th and 18th century, of English and Scottish state papers, 1558-1641.
The papers include correspondence relating to the Earl of Essex, 1599, and material on the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, 1638-1640.
Copies, 17th century, of correspondence, 1586-1623, and undated.
The topics are very miscellaneous and include the Spanish match (1620), appeals for royal clemency, voyages of exploration and political events.
Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.
The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.
The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copies, 1727 or before, in various hands, of papers concerning Mary Queen of Scots and her reign, apparently collected by James Anderson.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of royal letters and other documents in the Denmilne Papers.
A list giving the references of the original manuscripts has been inserted.
Copies by Sir James Balfour of some of his own letters and two addressed to him.
The letters are not in chronological sequence. Most of them express his friendship for his correspondent, but in one he comments on the reception of the new Service Book at St Giles in 1637 (folio 9 verso), and in another to Lord Elcho he advises on reading matter (folio 12 verso).
Copies, chiefly typewritten, of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson when he was preparing the centenary edition of Scott’s letters but rejected from printing.
The copies of those letters in the National Library which are to be found in MS.863 have not been preserved. A list of the numbers of the letters in MS.863 is bound in at the beginning of MS.1750.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
Copies, late 17th century, of letters, 1637-1638, of Robert Baillie, principal of Glasgow University, and of papers, 1638, concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Copies, made by Adam S Douglas in 1838, of a collection of letters, 1744-1746, addressed to Robert Craigie of Glendoick, Lord Advocate for Scotland.
The letters, which are chiefly of the later part of 1745, deal almost entirely with the Jacobite rising.
Copies of 20 letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Derek Stanford, and six letters of Stanford to Findlay.
On literary matters.
Copies of 54 letters of William Carey, William Ward, and other Baptist missionaries in Bengal, to William Cunninghame.
Copies of correspondence and papers concerning a dispute between Colonel (later Major-General) Charles Ross and Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd.
Both officers belonged to the 39th Foot which was then stationed in Gibraltar. The papers, which are not in chronological order, include letters to and from George Elliot, the Governor, extracts from regimental orders, and Ross`s own comments on the affair.
Copies of correspondence of Elizabeth Steuart-Barclay of Coltness, concerning "The Laird of Cool's ghost" by William Ogilvie, minister of Innerwick.
Copies of correspondence of the French jurist, Athanase J L Jourdan (1791-1826), apparently intended for publication.
Copies of dispatches and correspondence of Charles Pasley.
Concerning his part in Sir John Malcolm`s mission to Persia.
Copies of documents of and concerning David Livingstone made for William Garden Blaikie, author of ‘The personal life of David Livingston’.
Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.
Copies of letters, 1769-1808, of Ann Murray Keith addressed to Jeremiah Hill, a Bristol merchant.
The letters deal largely with personal and family affairs, including those of Ann Murray Keith's friends, Mrs Baird of Newbyth and the Countess of Balcarres, but there are also references to public affairs and to the social life of the time.
According to a note in the volume the copies were made in 1829 at the instance of Charles Hill, a son of Jeremiah and the owner of the originals.