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Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Memorandum of goods belonging to Catherine McLean in Bunessan.
Memorandum on Jacobite intrigues in Sweden.
The manuscript signed by Johan Friedrich Osthoff, describes intrigues conducted in the interest of Prince James Stuart in 1719, with especial reference to a bogus expedition to Madagascar. The persons chiefly active were one Morgan, Captain Galloway of the frigate ‘Revolution’, Colonel Sebach, Clincowstrom (Klinckowstrom), and Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish Minister in London.
Microfilm of dispatches, memoranda and enclosures of or to the 1st Earl of Minto.
The contents are as follows:
Various dispatches and memoranda, August 1809, sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam (MS.11657);
Copies of dispatches and enclosures, 12 October-27 December 1809, of the 1st Earl to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11662);
Copies of enclosures, 15 April 1810, in dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11663).
Microfilm of fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, an account of the castes in Malabar by Alexander Walker; and, Memorandums, [circa 1800], of Alexander Walker concerning Malabar.
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume I by Alexander Walker (MS.13810);
Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume II by Alexander Walker (MS.13811);
Memorandum, [circa 1800[, of Alexander Walker on the 'origin of money in Malabar' (MS.13825);
Memoranda, 1801, of Alexander Walker on land tenures and on the state of slavery in Malabar (MS.13826).
Microfilm of letter books, registers and orders and memoranda, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station.
Microfilm of letters and papers of Charles Robert Cockerell, relating to the National Monument of Scotland on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
The contents are as follows:
Memoranda and drafts or copies of some letters of Charles Robert Cockerell, together with letters or copies of letters of various correspondents, 1822-1829 (MS.638);
Memorandum, 1823, by Charles Robert Cockerell on the principles of Greek architecture, with reference to the adoption of the Parthenon as the model of the National Monument (MS.639).
Microfilm of manuscripts of Alexander Walker intended for publication.
Microfilm of papers chiefly of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
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.
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).
Military papers of Douglas Neil Wimberley, containing correspondence, speeches, printed books and pamphlets.
Minutes and other administrative papers of the curators of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Miscellaneous correspondence of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library, including inventories, petitions and accounts.
Miscellaneous personal and political correspondence of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers concerning the families of Gardiner, Milne, and Gregor, Banffshire.
Papers of and concerning Lord Boyd Orr.
Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.