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Copies of letters, 1845-1860, of John Connel and John Taylor to relatives in Scotland.
With letter, undated, of William Edmond, to his sister Mrs James McQuat, Balfron, and a family tree of the McQuats.
Copies of letters, 1856, 1884, of John and Margaret McDonald to relatives in Rosshire.
With a postcard, 1901, from Philadelphia.
Copies of letters and associated papers of, or concerning, the Grant family to their Morison relations in Mull.
Copies of letters and instructions of Thomas, Baron Wharton, deputy warden of the marches.
Most of the material concerns the order of the watches in the three marches, giving the areas covered and, in some cases, the names of those concerned.
The volume may have been intended for John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; his arms are painted on page 2, and the bear and ragged staff of Warwick drawn on page 3. There are large decorated initials in pen and ink on pages 3, 7, 13, 37, 121 and 153, some of which bear the letters IN, TP, CC or TW.
Copies of letters and reports from Captain John Barlow and other officers commanding detachments of the Buffs in the Western Isles and the Laggan and Loch Rannoch areas.
Captain Barlow reports on his searches for arms and Catholic priests in the islands, and on shipping in the area. He also comments on the topography and social conditions, and puts forward suggestions for a permanent garrison, the building of schools and customs houses, etc. Reports from the mainland are chiefly concerned with cattle thieving and the power of the chiefs. The inverted folios contain tables of military posts in the Highlands and Scotland generally.
Copies of letters of Alexander MacRae to his family in Rosshire.
Copies of letters of and to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
Copies of letters of Cuthbert Collingwood, afterwards 1st Baron Collingwood, to the Reverend Dr Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Copies of letters of George and Robert Arbuthnot, at this time secretaries to the Governor of Ceylon.
The letters of George and Robert Arbuthnot were written to their family in Edinburgh, and describe the voyage to Ceylon, visits en route to Madeira and Madagascar, and life in Ceylon.
Copies of letters of James Bannerman Lorimer.
Mostly written from the Western Front.
Copies of letters of John C Hooper to his parents, during his time in the Boer War.
Copies of letters of the brothers McArthur, in Manitoba, to their sister in Nairn.
Copies of letters of the Reverend Thomas Guthrie to the Duchess of Argyll, with a few of other writers.
Copies of letters of William Davidson, the phrenologist and father of Thomas (1817-1885), the palaeontologist, to his grandson, William, 'Written at Heidelberg, and other places on the Rhine'.
In the first volume the letters discuss mainly religious and philosophical topics while the second volume is more autobiographical.
Copies of letters, tracts and other papers concerning the troubles in Scotland during the reign of Charles I.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.6.9.
Copies of miscellaneous documents.
Copies of papers and correspondence concerning John Buchan`s admission to the Alpine Club.
Copies of papers concerning the appointment of Edwin Morgan as the "Scots Makar".
Copies of single letters of Marjorie McNicol and John Mackintosh to James McNicol.
Copies of sixteen letters concerning public affairs in Scotland.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.2.27.
Copies of three letters concerning the Scottish Cooperative Employees Association.
Copies of three letters of Anne of Denmark to Colin Campbell, Laird of Glenorchy.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
Copy, 17th century, of a journal kept by a member of Sir Robert Cecil`s suite during the period of his embassy to France, February-April 1598, before the signing of the Treaty of Vervins.
The entries for each day are brief, and much of the manuscript consists of copies of official correspondence sent and received by Cecil, some of which was published in ‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the courts of England, France and Brussels’, pages 100-157.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘Humii vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ or ‘Camdenea; id est examen nonnullorum a G. Camdeno in Britannia sua positorum, præcipuē quæ ad irrisionem Scoticæ Gentis et eorum et Pictorum falsam originem’.
At the end is a copy of a Latin letter, 7 Cal. May 1604, of Andrew Melville to David Hume.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.5.16.