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Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
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).
‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.
Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
Poems and correspondence of Robert Crombie Saunders (born 1914).
Poems in Scots of the Reverend James Melville, minister of Kilrenny, mostly on religious themes
Poems, letters and other papers of the poet William Julius Mickle (1734 or 1735-1788).
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
Presentation note, undated, of Thomas Carlyle to Mrs Welsh (apparently torn out of a printed work).
With copy of verses, 1924, of John Masefield.
Printer’s copy of the text of Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, the Gaelic and Latin each divided into three volumes as printed.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
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.
Single letters and papers.
Single letters and papers chiefly of the nineteenth century, with a few of the eighteenth century.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
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).
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
Topographical and other works.
Two copies, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565.
Two copies of part II of ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ by Samuel Colvil.
Typescript copy of Thomas Mathison's ‘The Goff. An Herio-comical Poem in three Cantos’, with a commentary, 1946, by C B Clapcott, showing that the poem describes an actual golf match played on Leith Links in 1743.
Verses and copies of verses by John MacCulloch, geologist and his daughter, Frances.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.