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Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.
Transcripts, late 19th century, of correspondence, 1825-1828, concerning Thomas Drummond`s claim to the Earldom of Perth.
Transcripts made by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, possibly intended for publication.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Transcripts (mostly abstracts or calendar entries) of the chartularies of "registra" of the monasteries of Scone, Inchcolm, Lindores, Coupar Angus and Balmerino.
Tip-ins include letter of C T McInnes, SRO, 1956, to Robert Maxtone Graham concerning this manuscript.
Transcripts of correspondence and papers relating to the presentation of a Jacobite medal to the Faculty of Advocates by the Duchess of Gordon and the subsequent proceedings.
Transcripts of correspondence between John Hill Burton and his first wife, Isabella Lauder.
Transcripts of five letters of Janes Welsh Carlyle to John Stodart, transcribed by Forbes Macgregor.
Transcripts of letters in the possession of Mrs Clephan, the Cottage, Monkseaton, Northumberland.
Transcripts of letters of and to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.
Volume made at Buchan`s behest as one of his "Gleanings of Literature", and sent to the Bishop of Llandaff.
Letters concern Celtic languages and correspondents include Sir James Foulis of Colinton, Charles Vallancey, the Reverend Donald MacQueen and Jacob Bryant Phillipps.
Transcripts of letters of Charles Taylor.
Describe life as a student at the Collège des Ecossais, Montpellier.
Transcripts of letters of Joanna Baillie to Sir Walter Scott in the collection of the National Library of Scotland.
Includes introduction and notes by Judith B Slagle.
Transcripts of letters of or concerning John Leyden.
The letters are chiefly addressed to Richard Heber, and include some written by William Erskine regarding the collection and preservation of John Leyden's writings, 1812-[1817].
Transcripts of the majority of the letters of Sir Walter Scott to William Laidlaw contained in MS.969.
Two letters each of Robert Garioch and George Campbell Hay to Hamish Henderson.
With autograph transcripts, undated, of Garioch for the School of Scottish Studies.
Two letters of J G Lockhart to James Ballantyne.
Letters concern Ballantyne`s relationship with Sir Walter Scott and memoranda of Scott to be supplied by Ballantyne for the use of Lockhart in his projected biography.
Includes notes on the letters by Alexander Ballantyne and transcripts of three letters of Scott to James Ballantyne.
Two letters of John Salmond from New Zealand on matters relating to emigration and settlement of the Dunedin and Otago areas.
Includes transcriptions, supporting documentation and copies of family photographs.
Typed letter from Thomas Innes of Learney, advocate, to W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates’ library, 30 May 1921, referring to the provenance of a portrait of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, at Kingcausie; and a typed transcript (folio 4) of an account of the duel between Sir Alexander Boswell, Baronet, and James Stuart of Dunearn, 1822, written by Mary Ann, daughter of Claud Boswell, Lord Balmuto, with a transcript of a related letter.
The originals were owned by Miss E B Irvine-Fortescue of Kingcausie in 1921.
Typed transcript of a letter of David Roberts to Wentworth Dilke.
Typed transcripts of correspondence concerning the mission to Brazil of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay.
Typed transcripts of letters to John Mackenzie of Delvine, Advocate, from the wife and son of the Reverend Dr Alexander Monro, and from Alexander Monro, Provost of St Salvator’s College, St. Andrews.
Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.
The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.
The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.
Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.
Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.
Typescript transcripts of correspondence of the descendants of James Lundie, Minister of North Leith, who died in 1696, principally that of his great-grandson, Robert, Minister of Kelso.
The letters fall into three divisions. The first (MS.1675, folio 1) contains letters to James Lundie at Leyden and Amsterdam, chiefly from his brother Archibald, Minister of Saltoun, 1708-1710; the second (MS.1675, folio 47), general family correspondence, 1745-1770; the third (MS.1675, folio 80, and MS. 1676), the correspondence of Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, and others. The writers include many eminent authors and theologians of the time.