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Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.16
Scope and Contents
The text is closely related to the life by William Roper, but there are interpolations and the dialogues are in the third person. Roper`s preface is replaced by a dedicatory letter to Captain Marmaduke Rawdon from John Hawkins, stating that Hawkins had originally intended to publish the text (Roper`s biography was first published in 1626). The life is followed by a poem `Sir Thomas More his Vision` (folio 80) which has been published by Constance Smith in ‘Moreana’, number 37 (1973), pages...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Copy, 1812, of "Tales of the Peries the History of Azar Shah from the Persie", from a manuscript in the possession of John Leyden.
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Identifier: Acc.6138
Scope and Contents
With correspondence, 20th century, concerning John Leyden and to the Leyden papers now in the National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
1812, 20th century.
Copy letter, 1986, of Margaret Tait, together with copies of letters, 1863 and 1897, of her grand-uncle, William Archer Porter, and her father, John Guthrie Tait.
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Identifier: Acc.10621
Scope and Contents
Letters concern Indian matters.
Dates:
1863-1897.
Copy letter of Robert F Fairlie to Mountstuart E Grant Duff, Under Secretary of State for India.
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Identifier: Acc.10255
Dates:
1870.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6
Dates:
1528, 17th century.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.1
Dates:
1689, and after.
Copy of a letter of Mrs Anne Grant of Laggan, inserted in volume i of the first edition of her ‘Letters from the mountains’.
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Identifier: MS.5842
Scope and Contents
The letter, a reply to some well-wishers seeking to help Mrs Anne Grant, describes the financial difficulties which led her to print the 'Letters from the mountains'.
According to a note on the flyleaf of the volume, the copy was made by Harriet, 2nd wife of the 6th Marquess of Lothian.
Dates:
1806.
Copy of a letter of Robert B Armstrong to Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8993
Scope and Contents
Concerning Sir William Fraser.
Dates:
1880.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Identifier: MS.8185
Scope and Contents
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
Dates:
1787.
Copy of David Hume's original manuscript account of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with additions and corrections in Hume's own hand.
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Identifier: MS.5722
Scope and Contents
Included are copies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s letters and three of David Hume's, 1763-1766. The statement itself is undated, but was the original version of the ‘Exposé succinct de la contestation qui s'est élevée entre Mr. Hume et M. Rousseau, avec les piéces justificatives’, translated by J B A Suard; and of the ‘Concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr Hume and Mr Rousseau (London, 1766), which was mainly re-translated from the French. The text of the...
Dates:
1763-1766.
Copy of letter of Donald Munro to George W Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll, seeking an appointment.
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Identifier: Acc.10945
Dates:
1824.
Copy of letter of Euphemia Boswell, née Erskine, to her second son John, younger brother of James Boswell.
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Identifier: Acc.10925
Dates:
1765.
Copy of letter of James Morgan to unidentified former employer in Scotland.
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Identifier: Acc.7022
Dates:
1851.
Copy of letter of John Murray II to John Leycester Adolphus.
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Identifier: Acc.13011
Dates:
1825.
Copy of letter of Margaret I Bain to Henry W Meikle.
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Identifier: Acc.9639
Scope and Contents
Concerns Franco-Scottish relations.
Dates:
1932.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
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Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Dates:
1559-1618.
Copy of part of a letter of Robert Burns to Agnes McLehose, pseudonym Clarinda.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11776
Dates:
1793.
Copy of the contract by Sir William Alexander for the first settlement of Nova Scotia.
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Identifier: Acc.11716
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of a letter signed by James VI and I granting Alexander funds for the colony.
Dates:
1622.
Copy of the letters of George Beattie to Williamina Gibson.
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Identifier: Acc.9662
Dates:
1821-1823.
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents
The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates:
1726.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is a copy of the complete text preceded by the dedicatory epistle but without the marginal summaries and the Synopsis.Together with Adv.MS.33.7.20 it was made at the Benedictine Abbey of St. James, Ratisbon, in or about 1684, for the Abbot, Thomas (Dom Placid) Fleming by Andrew Cook, one of the monks (who subsequently became Prior), as a present to Christopher Irvine, physician and philologist.The text is followed by copies of documents relating to the...
Dates:
1582.
Copy, with translation, of a letter of Dmitri Shostakovich to John McLeod.
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Identifier: Acc.10799
Scope and Contents
Concerns variations by McLeod on a theme from Shostakovich`s Fifth Symphony.
Dates:
1973.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.332
Dates:
1980.
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.171
Dates:
1858-1940, and undated.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.