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Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.
File
Identifier: MS.2524
Scope and Contents
Except one of Archbishop Leighton, the letters are of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Several are addressed to the Mures of Caldwell; others to Archibald Constable. Among the writers are Dr John Moore, Hugh Blair, David Hume, Bishop Percy, John Pinkerton, Dugald Stewart, Lord Jeffrey, Joanna Baillie, James Hogg (writing to 'M.L.', the anonymous author of two songs in ‘Jacobite relics’, second series (Edinburgh, 1821)), Mrs Grant of Laggan, Lord Cockburn, and John Gibson...
Dates:
[?1673], 18th century-early 19th century.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Series
Identifier: MS.23141(i)-(ii)
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century, undated.
Letters chiefly of, to, and about James Grahame, the author of ‘The Sabbath’.
File
Identifier: MS.3519
Scope and Contents
Among the correspondents are Joanna Baillie, Thomas Campbell, Cockburn, Jeffrey, Dugald Stewart, and William Wilberforce. An autograph manuscript of 'The Siege of Copenhagen' (folio 75) differs in several places from the printed text; there is also an autograph manuscript of Thomas Campbell's "The Soldier's Dream" (folio 10), and a copy of Charles Wolfe's 'The Burial of Sir John Moore' (folio 82).
Dates:
1792-1862, undated.
Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.
File
Identifier: Acc.12119
Scope and Contents
Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.
Dates:
1918-1936, undated.
Letters of Robert Graham of Redgorton and his sister Elizabeth Graeme to Mr and Mrs John Dundas, Edinburgh.
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Identifier: Acc.12111
Scope and Contents
Letters concern Robert Graham`s private publication, "Family Letters, 1745-1793" (Edinburgh, 1857). Includes copy of a letter, 1752, of Thomas Graeme, Philadelphia, to his brother Patrick Graeme of Murrayshall.
Dates:
1857-1859.
Letters, photographs and papers, 1815-1936, 1972, and undated, of or concerning the Dallas and Macarthur families of Nairn, and relating chiefly to the activities of the brothers Macarthur in Quebec, Ontario, Iowa and Manitoba from 1861.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.277- is now Acc.10623.
Dates:
1815-1936, 1972.
Letters to and of Naomi Mitchison; with press cuttings.
File
Identifier: Acc.5836
Scope and Contents
14 letters to Naomi Mitchison, 1931-1965, undated, with 2 copy letters of Naomi Mitchison, 1948-1949.The contents are as follows:Letter to Naomi Mitchison from Robert Graves, undated (1).Copy letters of Naomi Mitchison to Robert Graves, 1948-1949 (2).
(16 November 1948; 15 February 1949).Letters to Naomi Mitchison from C M Grieve, 1931-1955 (8).
(31 May 1931; 19 June 1931; 16 July 1931; 22 July 1931; 27 January 1932; 17 January 1934; 3 June...
Dates:
1931-1965, undated.
Letters written by Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General of India to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1786-1794, and copies of letters of Dundas to Cornwallis and his successors as Governor-General, 1786-1799.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3385-3388
Dates:
1786-1799.
Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.
Dates:
1948-1991 and undated.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Series
Identifier: Dep.363
Dates:
Circa 1950-1983.
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
Series
Identifier: MSS.826-832
Scope and Contents
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Dates:
1710-1837.
Manuscript containing copies of supplications of various dignitaries of the Scots Church to the Court of Rome concerning contested matters of an ecclesiastical nature; with copies of the responses which were made to the supplications.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.26
Dates:
Mid 16th century.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.17
Scope and Contents
(i) The negotiations between the non-juring Bishops and the Orthodox Church were initiated during the stay in London of Archbishop Arsenius of Thebais, and conducted largely through the Russian Court; they end on the death of Peter the Great. See ‘A History of the Non-Jurors’, pages 309-361, and ‘The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century’.The original letters and papers from the Orthodox side in these negotiations (with English or Latin translations when these are...
Dates:
1716-1725.
Manuscript containing minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804) and letter book, 1816-January 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet, and father-in-law of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy).
File
Identifier: MS.20758
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors (guardians, curators) of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804). As well as the record of their discussions on estate business, the minutes include copies of letters, a report, 1806, by Robert Reid, surveyor, Perth (folio 13 verso), and statement of accounts, 1806 (folio 21 verso).
(ii) Letter-book, May, 1816-January, 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet...
Dates:
1804-1817.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript material of David Livingstone, additional to MSS.10707-10756: Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20314-20316
Dates:
1849-1873.
Manuscript of ‘Ane Essay Relating to the Natural History of Scotland by way of Supplement to the Prodromus Naturalis Historae Scotae published anno 1684’ in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains, for the most part, discourses on natural history and scientific and medical phenomena found in Scotland, taken from manuscript and printed sources.Accounts taken from printed sources include ‘Philosophical Transactions’, ‘Description of the Islands of Orkney’ and ‘Large Description of Galloway’. Manuscript sources include letters and extracts of letters to Sibbald from Dr George Garden of Aberdeen and Matthew MacKaile, an Aberdeen apothecary....
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Copie of a Letter written by a M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London concerninge some talke past of late ... about the present state and some proceedinges of the Earle of Leicester and his Frends in England.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.3
Scope and Contents
The name W Hepburne appears on folio ii in a 17th-century hand.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript of ‘Leycester`s Commonwealth’, `The Coppie of a Lettre written by A M[?] of Arte of Cambridge to his friend in London Concerning some talke ... aboute the present state and some proceedings of the Earle of Leister and his Frinds in England.`
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.13
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5170-5177
Dates:
1537-1934.
Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of and concerning James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26105-26115
Dates:
1913-1971.
Manuscripts from the Bishop Dowden Memorial Library, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20483-20486
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1743.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.350A-B
Dates:
1814, 1883, 1927-1929.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Materials towards ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.3-20.2.9
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of notes and extracts, mostly from published sources, together with some correspondence, and a number of fair copies of early versions of parts of the text. Many of the items, particularly the fair copies of the text, are in the hand of Chalmers’s nephew James Chalmers. The letters are dated between 1794 and 1805: the other writings are undated but watermarks visible in the leaves are dated within this period.
Dates:
?1794-?1805.