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Society of Writers to Her Majesty`s Signet manuscripts.
File
Identifier: Acc.4245
Scope and Contents
Including mediaeval vellum fragments, facsimiles of letters and documents (with some original manuscripts), and annotated printed items.
Dates:
circa 1200-circa 1900.
Ten poems of Ronald Campbell Macfie.
File
Identifier: Acc.9790
Scope and Contents
With two letters, 1918 and undated, of Macfie to Mary Veronica Morgan.
Dates:
1913-1918 and undated.
The First World War: Political, Social and Military Manuscript Sources. Series 1: The Haig Papers. Diaries and letters of Sir Douglas Haig. (Harvester Microform: Brighton, [n.d.].)
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.764-773
Dates:
1914-1919.
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates:
1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.
Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.
Item
Identifier: MS.5165
Scope and Contents
Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.
There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).
Dates:
1688-1703.
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others; with a transcript thereof.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.7-54.1.8
Dates:
1548-1593.
Thirty-seven letters, 1811-1830, and fragments of manuscript, ?1831-1832, by Sir Walter Scott, with seventy-three letters, 1830-1832, written to or about Scott.
Series
Identifier: MS.5317
Dates:
1811-1832.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Transcript of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’: a copy of Adv.MS.33.3.25 (page 1);‘Addenda ex exemplari Anglico impresso’ (page 41);The ‘Relationes Arnaldi Blair’ copied from Adv.MS.35.6.10 (page 44);‘Addenda alia e chronico Melrosensi impresso’ (page 51);Copies of letters, 1563, of Queen Mary to the Council of Trent in Latin, and to the Cardinal of Lorrain and the Pope in Italian (page 65);...
Dates:
12th century-1683.
Transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.12
Scope and Contents
Transcript of the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37) made in 1897 by the Reverend Walter MacLeod (1864-1935) of Strathkinnes, Fife. Corresponds page for page and line for line to the original. The circumstances of the transcript are described by Donald Mackinnon in a letter to J T Clark, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 13 November 1895 (now pages ii-iii) and in a note at folio i verso. The Reverend Walter MacLeod was chosen to make the transcript due to his skill in...
Dates:
1897.
Transcripts, first half of twentieth century, of letters and papers, 1599-1611, concerning the Graham family and the Royal Commission appointed in 1605 for the settlement of the Borders.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5273-5276
Dates:
1599-1611.
Translation by Spring Macky of ‘Versuche und Muster...Papier zu machen’ by Jacob Christian Schaeffer, volumes 1-5.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.5A-B
Scope and Contents
Parts of the translation are in another hand of the 18th century.
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Twenty-five letters, 1926-1977, of C M Grieve to James K Annand, mostly on literary matters; manuscripts of seven poems, undated, of C M Grieve; and a manuscript of an appreciation, 1967, by C M Grieve of George Ogilvie.
File
Identifier: Dep.283- is now part of Acc.9624.
Dates:
1926-1977.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
File
Identifier: MS.2233
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts of poems, of a prose treatise in defence of the theatre (fragmentary, but not ‘Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments’), and of a letter to a lady, containing a poem. Some of the poems appear to be unpublished; others differ greatly from the printed version. On folio 10 there are marginal references, apparently contemporary, to the pages of ‘Poems by Allan Ramsay’ (Edinburgh, 1728), volume ii. Some of the leaves are paginated,...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
File
Identifier: MS.5318
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.
Dates:
1941-1942.
Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.
File
Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents
With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.
Dates:
1961-1965 and undated.
Typescripts and manuscript of plays by Margaret Clarke ('Lesley Storm'), and other papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6711
Scope and Contents
Including typescripts of four other plays, with three letters, 1957 and undated, two of Laurence Olivier and one of Vivien Leith to Storm, concerning her plays.
Dates:
1950-1957 and undated.
Various letters, 1873, 1881, 1890, 1893, and undated, transferred from the Department of Printed Books where they were found loosely enclosed in books.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.12
Scope and Contents
A contents list has been provided, recording also the former locations of the letters.
Dates:
1873-1893, and undated.
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MS.22078
Dates:
1870-1924, undated.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.17
Scope and Contents
The items of manuscript interest consist of presentation and other notes (numbers 26, 112), a poem (91) and a letter, 1711 (108), of Archibald Pitcairne; poems by Thomas Kincaid and Allan Ramsay (89, 92) and a poem (90) and notes in other contemporary hands (4, 5, 32, 45, 95, 102, 109); and notes and extracts (2, 3, 6, 39, 46a, 70, 88, 92a, 95a, 102a, 104) in Robert Pitcairn`s hand, and a copy by him, dated 1825, of a decreet of the Privy Council in favour of Archibald Pitcairne, 1700 (111)....
Dates:
1700, 1711.
Volume containing a letter of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring, 1824; four letters concerning Byron, 1824 and 1828; and a manuscript of his last poem.
File
Identifier: Dep.238- is now Acc.8766.
Dates:
1824, 1828.
Volume containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.21
Scope and Contents
The volume would appear to have been the first of two, for the leaves are watermarked 1860 and folio 175 is inscribed in pencil `See Book No II`. The work is anonymous: it appears to have been made the basis of the text of ‘Records of the King`s Own Borderers’ by R T Higgins, but neither the text nor the many pencil additions and alterations appear to be in his hand. The account begins at folio 13, being preceded by a summary account to 1793 (folio 1) and `A List of His Majesty`s...
Dates:
1860, or after-1908.
Volume containing copies of legal opinions (mostly of Robert Blair of Avontoun as Solicitor General), and of other legal letters and papers (some printed) on various topics.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.8
Scope and Contents
A letter is tipped in at folio 20, copies of legal papers are tipped in at folios 76 and 114, and printed legal papers are tipped in and pasted in at folios 29 and 32 verso respectively; folios 85-113, 116-120 are blank.
Dates:
1746, 1798-1824.
Volume containing extracts (folio 1) made about 1794 (the date of the watermark of the leaves) from the topographical collections of Walter Macfarlane of that ilk, 1748-1749 (Adv.MS.35.3.12), followed by fragments (folio 63), being folios 109-112 and 127-144, of ‘The Geography of Moray`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.13
Scope and Contents
The items appear to have been collected for George Chalmers (a letter to whom, 1798, is at folio 17) as materials for his ‘Caledonia’, the first volume of which was published in 1807. The descriptions of parishes at folios 1-10, 11-16, 19-50 verso, are taken from Adv.MS.35.3.12(i), pages 81-90, 291-299 and 310-340 respectively, and at folios 50 verso-61 from Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii), pages 259-270. `The Geography of Moray` is unidentified; it appears to have been written in the latter half of the...
Dates:
1748-2nd half of 18th century.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
Item
Identifier: MS.3658
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Dates:
1666-1699.