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Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10065
Scope and Contents
Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.
Dates:
1812-1816.
Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11175
Scope and Contents
Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.
Dates:
1948-1974 and undated.
Papers of Thomas Aitken.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8839
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.
Dates:
circa 1867-1880.
Personal and political correspondence of Walter E Elliot and of Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12267
Dates:
1912-1957, undated.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008
"Practiques of the Law of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.11941
Scope and Contents
Contains:
1 "Actes of Parliament Ordine Alphabetico Anent Crymes"
2 "Practickes re Land", 1666
3 "The Ordinarie Forme of Proces Befor the Lordes of Sessione", 1669.
Dates:
circa 1666-1669.
Prayers, sermons, addresses and lectures of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8095/1-40
Dates:
1924-1976, undated.
Small collections of correspondence and manuscripts of the author and essayist Thomas De Quincey, acquired at different times.
File
Identifier: MS.21239
Scope and Contents
Thomas De Quincey's own letters are written to his family and friends about his work and other activities, finance, and family matters. Letters addressed to him include one from an unnamed American admirer, 1853, (folio 18) which was published in ‘Thomas De Quincey’, pages 103-105, the catalogue of an exhibition held at Dove Cottage and the National Library of Scotland.Most of the manuscripts are fragmentary drafts of unidentified essays, but they include parts of "The English...
Dates:
1800-1855, undated.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732, and an essay entitled `The Superstitions of Perth`, 1788, by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.13.1.1-13.1.7
Scope and Contents
This is part i of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Scott`s transcribing work is interspersed with historical notices by him.
Dates:
1241-1732, 1788.
Two essays (one in draft) on the relationship between the family and the school, written in Tournai.
File
Identifier: Acc.8761
Dates:
circa 1913.
Unpublished memoir of George Douglas Brown, probably by David S Meldrum.
File
Identifier: Acc.10420
Scope and Contents
With draft essay, undated, of Brown on Hamlet.
Dates:
early 20th century.