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Letters and papers of Robert Bruce Armstrong, chiefly concerning the collection of material for the unpublished continuation of his ‘The history of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land’.
Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Letters and papers of Sydney Durward Tremayne (1912-1986), the poet and journalist.
Letters and papers of the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Argyll.
Most of the papers concern the settling of the 1st Duke`s affairs after his death in 1703, with particular reference to his estate at Chirton in Northumberland. Many of the letters are addressed to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, who was acting on behalf of Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Argyll.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Letters and papers pasted or inserted loose in printed books, inscriptions written in books, etc., in the Hugh Sharp Collection.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters and poems of George Macdonald.
The letters, which include some from his wife Louisa, are written to Baron and Lady Mount-Temple. They mention George Macdonald's work, give news of himself and of his family, describe his surroundings in Italy, and contain many reflections on God and the next world. The poems (folio 95) are both manuscript and printed. There are also a few poems included in the letters.
Letters, and typed transcripts of letters, of Mountstuart Elphinstone, mostly to William Erskine, the historian of India.
The letters concern Indian, Turki and Persian literature, philology and geography, with special reference to Erskine`s translation of Bābar`s Memoirs, and Elphinstone`s ‘Account of the Kingdom of Cabul’. There are very few references to current events, but a small number of letters to Elphinstone are included (Adv.MS.28.5.15, folio 183) which concern the administration of justice in India.
Letters chiefly from members of the English army in the North of England and Scotland, and addressed to Sir William Clarke, secretary to General Monck, and to Monck himself.
The letters of 1648 mostly concern the campaign against the Scots and the capture of Pontefract. Those of 1659 are on military and political matters and include the draft of Monck`s manifesto at Coldstream.
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 chiefly of, to, or concerning David Livingstone and his wife; and other papers.
Letters, etc., chiefly addressed to Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Sheils, writer in Edinburgh, née Wightman.
The writers include Thomas Boston the Elder, 1719, 1728 (folios 9, 46; transcripts appended), and other divines, and the content of the letters is mainly religious. It includes an account of the death and prophecies of Robert Stark, Minister of Stenton (folio 66). For the Wightman family, see notes on folios i-iv. At folio 84 is a copy of a letter, 1797, of the Marquess Cornwallis to Dundas regarding promotion in the East India Company's Army.
Letters, manuscripts and proofs of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.
David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.
Letters, mostly to John, Duke of Lauderdale.
Letters, mostly to William Erskine, the historian.
The correspondents were members of the army and civil service in India, most of whom were interested in Indian history, philology, literature and art, and discussed these in their letters. Some of them refer to their own books and articles, or to the Literary Society of Bombay, of which Erskine was the secretary. A few of the letters concern legal matters or current military and political topics.
The letters have been grouped under the various correspondents.
Letters, notebooks and manuscripts of and concerning Hugh Miller, geologist.
Letters of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, to his brother-in-law, Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston, and his sister Jane, Sir Archibald`s wife.
Among the subjects of the letters are his troubled relations with Sir John Bellenden, the Lord Justice Clerk, the education of his nephew, John (the inventor of logarithms), and the plague at Edinburgh.
Letters of Agnes Mure Mackenzie to Duncan M Morison, with manuscripts and typescripts of poems.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Letters of King Charles II relating to a dispute between Thomas Fleming, merchant, and Captain Cornelius Vanderzype,1650-1651, and papers concerning coal-mining at Tranent, 1745-1746.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.