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Correspondence and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Stuart, then a member of the Bengal Council, and later a professor of Oriental Languages at the East India College, Haileybury.
The papers consist of private letters from Charles Stuart to Henry Dundas, lst Viscount Melville, and to his friend William Dundas, the latter's nephew, with extensive enclosures, largely minutes and reports by Stuart, and copies of official correspondence and dispatches. The private correspondence contains particular detail on fiscal policies and the internal politics of the Bengal administration.
Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
'Correspondence Book of the Academy of Physics, Edinburgh': two volumes, numbered 14 and 15, containing copies of letters from February 1798 to December 1799, in the autograph of Henry Brougham, Francis Horner, and William Erskine, the Orientalist, as Secretaries.
Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, his firm and his family; with one volume of the manuscript of a work published in "Constable's miscellany".
The correspondents include many of the most celebrated men (chiefly literary) of the time.
Correspondence of Duncan Glen.
Includes circa 900 letters and copies of letters, on literary matters.
Correspondence of (or collected by) the Ossian Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence of Sir Charles Stuart (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay), when British Ambassador to France; and facsimile of a copy of the “Memoire et vote définitif et final de la Cour de Vienne dans l’affaire Aldobrandini".
The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Charles Stuart from French officials and politicians, with drafts or copies of some of his replies and some petitions for help from British residents in or travellers through France, and from French citizens. There are also a few letters to him concerning his book-collecting activities.
Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill.
The letters are in continuation of MSS.610-617. Seven of the letters are copies.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Description by Sir William Burrell of a tour made by him, chiefly in Scotland.
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Digital prints, circa 2007, of a request of the Provost and Baillies of the City of Edinburgh to Sir Colin Campbell, 2nd Bart., of Glenorchy, to provide game for a banquet in honour of Charles I, 1633.
Includes copy of the same document on a CD-Rom.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Fair copy in an unidentified hand of apparently early 18th-century provenance of `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` by Sir James Turner, along with the rest of the contents of Adv.MS.31.1.14.
The transcript of Turner`s `observations` on O`Flaherty`s ‘Ogygia’ is written in the same hand but on slightly smaller leaves.
The copy may have been made for Sir Robert Sibbald who appears to have made a few brief additions at various places.
The volume appears to have been re-bound early in the 19th century.
Five letters of Ernest A Taylor to Walter R Cuthbert.
Mostly concerning plays by Cuthbert.
Includes copies of ten letters of Cuthbert to Taylor.
Four letters, 1935-1936, of or concerning C M Grieve to R D McIntyre, with other papers.
Includes:
Edinburgh University student rectorial broadsheet "Students` Front" (1936)
14 letters and other papers, 1942-1945, of or concerning Douglas Young
copy, undated, of "A Ballad for Douglas Young", attributed to Sydney Goodsir Smith.