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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 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.
Microfilm copy of a letter of Marcel Proust to C. K. Scott Moncrieff, and of two letters of Robert Proust to J. M. Scott Moncrieff.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.447-[Acc.2616]
Dates:
1922-1931.
Microfilm of a notebook of Alexander Main, containing copies of letters to him from George Eliot and G H Lewes.
Item
Identifier: MS.15551 [Mf.MSS.30]
Dates:
1871-1877.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of chiefly letters of and to James Robert Hope-Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.924-927
Dates:
[?1836-?1873.]
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1110
Dates:
1675-early 18th century.
Microfilm of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.101
Dates:
1793-1794.
Microfilm of copies of letters to the Admiralty, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in Chief of the North American Station.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.936
Dates:
1814-1815.
Microfilm of copies of letters written by John Rennie to Joshua Walker and Company of Rotherham, who supplied the iron for Southwark Bridge
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1073
Dates:
1815-1819.
Microfilm of copies of private letters, 4 August 1824-24 December 1827, of Alexander Walker.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1574
Dates:
1824-1827.
Microfilm of copies of secret orders and letters issued and received by Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.934
Dates:
1814-1815.
Microfilm of copies, possibly 1831-1841, of letters, 1831-1841, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn, largely written during Jeffrey’s period of office as Lord Advocate, 1831-1834.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.141
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies, possibly 1831-1832, of letters, February 1831-April 1832 (Adv.MS.9.1.8);
Copies, possibly 1832-1833, of letters, April 1832-May 1833 (Adv.MS.9.1.9);
Copies, possibly 1833-1841, of letters, May 1833-November 1841 (Adv.MS.9.1.10).
Dates:
1831-1841.
Microfilm of correspondence and copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto to Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1146
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1810-1812, of the 1st Earl of Minto with Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty (MS.11692);
Copies of letters, 1810-1813, of the 1st Earl of Minto to Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty (MS.11693).
Dates:
1810-1813.
Microfilm of correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1076-1077
Dates:
1808-1813.
Microfilm of correspondence of the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1442
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters and enclosures of Anne Hayman, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Caroline, Princess of Wales and to the 1st Earl of Minto, with copies of some of the Earl's letters, 1798-1813 (MS.11131, folios 186-187, 198-234);Letters and enclosures of Anne Hayman, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Caroline, Princess of Wales and to the 1st Earl of Minto, with copies of some of the Earl's letters, 1799-1809 (MS.11132);Correspondence, 1798-1818, of the...
Dates:
1798-1818.
Microfilm of correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from Francis Drake, Envoy at Munich, concerning the affairs of Bavaria and Württemburg, with copies of Drake's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1178
Dates:
1800-1801.
Microfilm of Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.900
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Poems, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns, including "Tam o’ Shanter" and "Holy Willie’s Prayer", with a copy of a letter, 1787, to Dr Moore, and a dedicatory letter, 1791 (MS.86);
Letters, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns (MS.87).
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.461
Dates:
?1606-?1618.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.968
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Drafts of letters, 1820-1834 (MS.7377);Letter copy book, 1824-1837, used while in England and Germany (MS.7394);Letter copy book, 1841-1844, used while in Germany and Edinburgh (MS.7398);Phrenological notebook, [circa 1810] (MS.7401);Diary, 1811-1815 (MS.7402);Papers, 1805-1845 (MS.7436, folios 70-76).The dates are taken from the records for the original documents and might not be the...
Dates:
1805-1845.