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Letter of Sir Walter Scott to George Canning, on placing Scott’s nephew in India, with copy reply, and typescript transcripts of the letters.
Letter of Willie Gallacher to Robert T White, Paisley, with a copy letter of White to Gallacher.
Letter to, and testimonial in favour of, 1913, Archibald Turnbull, by George Saintsbury.
With copy of letter, 1977, of Archibald Turnbull to Alastair Fowler, containing recollections of Saintsbury.
Letter, undated, of Jane Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, to her son, Captain Alexander Cochrane.
with two holograph copy letters, 1826, of Colonel Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone to George Canning.
Letters, 1833-1866, of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Mrs Stirling (Susan Hunter); together with copies of two letters, 1873, of Thomas Carlyle to his brother John Aitken Carlyle (the original of the second of which is MS.527, number 81), a letter, 1873, of Margaret Welsh to Mrs Stirling, and letters of and to the donor.
Letters, 1841-1851, and photographic copies thereof, of the Earl of Crawford, styled Lord Lindsay, to James Dennistoun, and letters of Sir Coutts Lindsay and John Murray; with letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.
With photographs of Dennistoun`s letters, and 12 letters, 1951-1954, of Lord Crawford to Lindsay Fleming.
Letters, 1849-1859, of John Gibson Lockhart, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Brougham, and others, addressed chiefly to the Reverend Whitwell Elwin, on matters relating to the 'Quarterly Review'.
The letters are preceded by a copy of a letter, 1807, of Byron to Edward Noel Long, and include letters, 1854, undated, of Mrs Gaskell relating to the breach between the Ruskins, Charlotte Brontë's marriage, etc.
Letters and copies of letters concerning the War of the Second Coalition against France, chiefly to General John Ramsay, son of the painter Allan Ramsay, some being addressed to Earl Whitworth and William Wickham.
The letters relate to the war against France, and particularly to dealings with Portugal and Russia, operations in Switzerland and the employment of Swiss troops, and the corps of the Prince of Condé. The writers include Baron Grenville, George Hammond, General Sir Robert Brownrigg, and the 1st Earl of Muzgrave.
‘Letters and instructions of state between England and Scotland’, a volume of copies in a modern hand from original papers in the Cotton Library being chiefly letters of English Ambassadors in Scotland.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.2.
Letters and memoranda, 1785-1794, written by the descendants of peers attainted in the 1715 Jacobite rising in an attempt to recover their titles and estates.
Most of the letters and memorandums, 1785-1794 are from the Earl of Mar, addressed apparently to the Earl of Seaforth (folios 13-67).
Also included are notes and copies of opinions, 1761-1820, on the succession to five peerages attainted in the 1715 and 1745 risings (folios 68-137), and miscellaneous notes, undated, on peerages (folios 1-12).
Letters and papers of Alexander Robertson of Strowan, the Jacobite.
Strowan`s own letters mostly concern his financial and legal affairs, but among those addressed to him are some from the Earl of Mar, written during and after the Rising of 1715, and from John Hay, Duke of Inverness. The papers also concern Strowan`s part in the Rising, and the pardon granted to him in 1731.
Letters chiefly of Scottish interest.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Letters chiefly of, to, and about James Grahame, the author of ‘The Sabbath’.
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).
Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.
Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.
Letters of Robert Graham of Redgorton and his sister Elizabeth Graeme to Mr and Mrs John Dundas, Edinburgh.
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.
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.
Letters to and of Naomi Mitchison; with press cuttings.
'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.
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).
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.
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).
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
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.
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.
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.`
The name W Hepburne appears on folio ii in a 17th-century hand.