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Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case of Messrs Tait against James A Maconochie.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/19
Dates:
1823, undated.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
File
Identifier: MS.20988
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Dates:
1488-1821, undated.
Papers, printed and manuscript, relating to the claim of Colonel William Fullarton of Glenquich to the title and dignity of Lord Spynie.
File
Identifier: MS.116
Scope and Contents
Includes the remarks of Lord Hailes on the Spynie peerage case (folio 92), and copies of deeds relating to the lands of the Abbey of Lindores, 1592, 1736, 1738 and 1743 (folio 130).
Dates:
1592, 1736-1743, 1784-1785.
Papers relating to the early history of the Cameronian (Lord Angus’) Regiment.
File
Identifier: MS.542
Scope and Contents
According to a letter, 1896, of Charles Dalton, editor of ‘English Army lists’ (folio i), the papers throw additional light on the history of the regiment. Included are:(i) Assignation by Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, of the arrears due to him as Colonel of the Scots Regiment in France, 1653 (folio i);(ii) The complaints of some officers and soldiers in the Regiment against the Lieutenant-Colonel William Cleland (draft and copy), 1689 (folios 8-12);...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1653, 1689-1696, 1896.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.3
Dates:
1798-1806.
Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).
File
Identifier: MS.26799
Scope and Contents
Robert Crombie Saunders, was the editor of ‘Scottish Arts and Letters' and the 'Scots Independent’. Many of his poems appeared in literary magazines.The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscripts and typescript drafts of poems, (circa 1940-1969, undated (folio 1). There are several versions of each poem.
(ii) Letters to Saunders from Christopher Murray Grieve, Sydney Goodsir Smith, and others, 1943-1961, undated (folio 70);
(iii) Fair copies of poems, 1969, undated...
Dates:
[Circa1940]-1970, undated.
Poems, letters and other papers of the poet William Julius Mickle (1734 or 1735-1788).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15934-15936
Dates:
1722-1788, undated.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
File
Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates:
1777-1829, undated.
Political correspondence of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, mainly as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West, 1974-1997, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians, 1999-2007.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.252
Dates:
1972-2010.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Dates:
1648-20th century.
"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan.
File
Identifier: MS.3114
Scope and Contents
Album containing.(i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.)(ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a...
Dates:
1764-1779.
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
“Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus considerable dans les mouvemens de citoyens et bourgeois de Geneve l’anneé 1707 par Michel Covelle Regent de la neuviéme classe.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.5
Dates:
1707-1730.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(i)-(vi)
Dates:
13th century-17th century.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Single letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.2521
Scope and Contents
The papers include: letters, 1795, 1810, of Sir Alexander Boswell, containing original humorous verse; copy of a list, 1849, made by Cockburn, giving the authorship of articles in the 'Edinburgh Review'; contemporary copy of a speech, ?1617, delivered by James I and VI in Edinburgh (parts being given in summary); letter, 1807, of Sir James Bland Burges (afterwards Lamb) on Sir Walter Scott's literary profits; letter, 1808, of Sir James Mackintosh dealing with Indian affairs; letter, 1830,...
Dates:
?1617-1849.
Single manuscripts and small collections, presented at various times.
File
Identifier: MS.2224
Dates:
1652-1928, undated.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
Small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MS.20655
Dates:
1912-1936, undated.
Small miscellany of letters (probably a remnant from a large collection), mostly by John Farquharson, formerly President of the Scots College, Douai, to the Scottish antiquary and historian, George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.16
Scope and Contents
There are also three copies, all in Farquharson`s hand, of a memorial concerning the college. The items do not appear to have been arranged in any obvious order.
Dates:
1793-1809.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
File
Identifier: MS.990
Scope and Contents
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.
Dates:
[?1768.]
Standing order for the British and Hanoverian troops in Germany, September to October 1743.
File
Identifier: Acc.9628
Scope and Contents
With copy of the speech to the King by John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl Stair, made at the Council of War at Worms, 23 August 1744.
Dates:
1743-1744.
‘State papers collected by Walsingham, Burleigh &ce’, copies of English state papers, from the reign of Elizabeth I, concerning relations with France, Spain, the Netherlands and Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.11
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers concerning the matters passed between England, France & Spain, and the Netherlands, of which a table is given at folio 91 verso.
(ii) Papers concerning matters that have passed between England and Scotland during the reign of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, of which a table is placed at the end of the volume.The tops of the leaves are considerably damaged by damp and two leaves are wanting before folio 5.The description of...
Dates:
2nd half of 16th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.