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Microfilm of personal and family correspondence of Sir Thomas Cochrane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.282
Dates:
1837-1838.
Microfilm of photograph of a letter of Giuseppe Indelicato to Sir Walter Scott concerning his Italian translation of ‘The lady of the lake’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.10
Dates:
1825.
Microfilm of photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1577
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Album, 1917, undated, of photographs of Blackpool, the voyage to South Africa with the RAMC, and wartime scenes in Cape Town and Durban (Acc.12016/1); Album, 1919-1922, of mission and family photographs taken in Tumutumu, Kenya, and in Britain (Acc.12016/5);Album entitled ‘Chogoria – the early days. The start to 12 October 1922’ (Acc.12016/6);Album entitled ‘Chogoria early days, 1922-1930’ (Acc.12016/7); Album...
Dates:
[1917-1996.]
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Dates:
[1548-1550, 1827, or before].
Microfilm of pseudo-Aristotle, ‘Secretum secretorum, ‘De excidio Troiae’ by Dares Phrygius, and Historia regum Britannie’ by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.481
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.846
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Microfilm of small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2103
Dates:
[?1912-?1936.]
Microfilm of so-called 'Clandestine Correspondence'; five tiny letters designed to be possibly 'hidden in the curl of a wig or in the hollow of a riding whip'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.281
Dates:
[Circa 1745-circa 1746.]
Microfilm of state papers, being copies, 17th century, of correspondence.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2087
Dates:
[?1586-?1623].
Microfilm of state papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 22: letters and papers, mostly addressed to James VI.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2094
Dates:
[?1604-?1624.]
Microfilm of state papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-9, letters and papers.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2-4
Dates:
[1560-1624.]
Microfilm of state papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 21 and 28.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1286-1287
Dates:
[1560-1618.]
Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1209-1234
Scope and Contents
The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.
The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Dates:
?19th century-[?1921].
Microfilm of the Correspondence of Arthur C Murray (1909-1962) (Microform Academic Publishers).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1734-1741
Dates:
1909-1962.
Microfilm of the Glenriddell Manuscripts, copies of poems and letters of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.203
Scope and Contents
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 the India Papers of the 4th Earl of Minto (Microform Academic Publishing).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1761-1822
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century-[?1910].
Microfilm of the letters, 1792-1796, of Robert Burns to George Thomson together with a letter of Burns to John Ballantine, 1787, and one of George Syme to Thomson, 1797.
Item
Identifier: MS.15533 [Mf.MSS.89]
Scope and Contents
A list of the poems included in the letters precedes them.
Dates:
1787, 1792-1796, 1797.
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1743-1760
Dates:
1694-1709.
Microfilm of theological works of Saints Jerome, Augustine, and others, written in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.851
Dates:
12th century.
Microfilm of thirty two letters of Thomas Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, 1814-1822, and one each to his mother and father, 1821-1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.15544 [Mf.MSS.36]
Dates:
1814-1822.
Microfilm of ‘Transactions of Scotts army in Ireland from 1643 to Junii 1648’, a collection in a contemporary hand of copies of letters, instructions and commencing with the treaty ‘concerning the Reducing of the Kingdom of Ireland’ and ending with a minute dated Carrickfergus 27 June 1648.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.325
Dates:
1643-1648.
Microfilm of transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.289
Dates:
1678-1708.
Microfilm of transcripts, 19th century, of official letters and papers of the 3rd Earl of Lothian.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.801
Dates:
1643, 1648-1649.
Microfilm of ‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’; and, church papers chiefly concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.805
Dates:
1640-1641.
Microfilm of two books, 1692, 1697, of household recipes of Katherin Smith and correspondence and papers, 1818-1831, undated, of Sir John Sinclair on agriculture.
Item
Identifier: MS.15553 [Mf.MSS.41]
Scope and Contents
The correspondence and papers of Sir John Sinclair includes translations and copies of letters on his ‘Code of agriculture’ and letters of him to Sir Patrick Murray Threipland.
Dates:
1692, 1697, 1818-1831, undated.