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Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Four letters, 1977-1986, from Lords Thomson, Wheatley and Lane to Robert S Shiels.
Letters concern legal matters.
Includes a note, 1887, of W E Gladstone to J Davidson, Leith.
Four letters and a note concerning James Dalrymple, a farmer near Linlithgow who was convicted for shooting a highlander.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly relating to his historical research.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas, mainly concerning his research into Rudolph Hess.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, mainly relating to the Royal Air Force and No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron.
Genealogical notes by Donald Whyte on the families of McLamroch, Nicholson or Nicolson, Whyte and Wodrow or Woodrow.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).
The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.
Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.
"Heads and Notes of Certain Sermons and Discourses from Diverse Texts of Scripture; by Mr. Thomas Hog, Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at Killtearn in the Shire of Ross. Transcribed from the Original Coppy of the Author, which was lent me for that purpose by Mrs. Maire Relict of the deceas'd Mr. George Maire Minister of Cullross" (died 1716).
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Incomplete copy of an apparently rejected version, entitled `The King, and Parliament`, of Chapter II of Volume II of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, 1st Baronet, of Allanton.
Journal of Lieutenant David Aytoun, Royal Navy, on H.M.S. Dragon in the Mediterranean, with various notes, observations and copies of correspondence.
Journal of Warren Hastings, 1793, with a transcript and related material, 1929-1938, by Dr Sophia Weitzman, author of ‘Warren Hastings and Philip Francis’.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.
Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Legal and political correspondence and papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
Included in the papers are letters, 1831-1849, of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice, to Cockburn, and some notes, undated, for Jeffrey`s biography.
The legal papers are concerned mainly with trials in which Cockburn appeared as counsel, and consist largely of briefs drawn up for his instruction, copies of the precognitions of witnesses, and some printed material relating to the cases.
Lesmahagow missal, probably written for use in the Tironensian priory of Lesmahagow, first half of the 13th century; and additional related material acquired at the same time.
Letter, 1820, and note, undated, of Walter Scott to John Ballantyne.
Concerns their financial arrangements.