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Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letter, 1824, of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring.
With four letters, 1824 and 1828, concerning Byron, and a manuscript of his last poem, undated.
Letter and five postcards, 1904-1905, of William Sharp.
With a manuscript poem, undated, "The Dirge of Clan Siubhail", and a letter, 1906, of Mrs Sharp.
Letter, dated Swanston, 7 June, 1871, of Robert Louis Stevenson to Mrs Brebner, asking her to accept "the little brooch that my father will give you along with this, as a remembrance of my stay at Earraid".
Letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland and related material.
Letter of Mary of Guise to François de Noailles, Bishop of Dax, Ambassador of Henri II in England, thanking him for sending her news, with an autograph postscript.
Letter, signed A B, concerning the early history of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, and disputing Presbyterian and Catholic arguments against it.
The letter is not dated, but was written after 1729, since it refers to ‘Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain’. The author was also familiar with the work of Jeremy Collier, Camden, Ussher and other historians.
Letters addressed mostly to Dr Robert Anderson, editor of ‘The Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britian’, ‘The Edinburgh Magazine’, etc.
The writers include Thomas Percy, Thomas Park, and William Preston.
Letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.
Letters and literary manuscripts of Andrew Lang.
Letters to publishers, collaborators and others on various topics including Homer, Chansons de Gate, research for his, and Alice Shield`s, "The King over the water", spiritualism and projected articles. Manuscript of "Ballade of neglected merit" (annotated by Edmund Gosse), and a summary of the Greek legend of Helle.
Letters and manuscripts collected by Mark Napier, author of ‘Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston’, etc.
Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.
Letters and papers, 1777-1778, 1795-1804, and undated, sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas`s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’.
Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Much of the correspondence is personal or concerns Anderson`s historical work, but some is of a legal or financial nature. Folios 154-158 consist of invitations to funerals.
Letters and papers mostly addressed to Sir John Bellenden of Auchinoul.
Bellenden succeeded his father as Lord Justice Clerk in 1547 and held the post until his death in 1577, when he was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Lewis Bellenden. Most of the letters were written to him in his official capacity, and are legal and financial in nature. They include a number of accounts and letters concerning the affairs of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, and of Robert Stewart, later Earl of Orkney.
Letters and papers, mostly contemporary copies, concerning a dispute within the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
The controversy was caused by some of the clergy of Edinburgh who objected to the canons of the Synod of 1743, particularly to those regulating the election of bishops.
Letters and papers of and concerning Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat.
Most of the letters were written by Lovat to Donald Fraser, later Minister of Urquhart and Logie, who was tutor to Lovat`s two elder sons, and concern the care and upbringing of the boys. Other letters concern the Rising of 1745, and include correspondence with Normand Macleod of Macleod and the Earl of Loudoun.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Letters and papers of Captain the Honourable (afterwards Admiral Sir) Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Letters and papers of David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.
The letters, which are mostly from George Henry Hutton and other antiquaries, concern the publication of chartularies and the compilation of a history of Scottish religious houses. There are also manuscript and printed copies of Buchan`s speeches to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1784-1785, 1787 (folio 76).