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Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Material on the early history of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.
Microfilm of 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, numbers 148-290.
Microfilm of manuscripts, chiefly notes and poems, of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, or in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Microfilm of notes, [1839, or after-circa 1855], compiled by William B D D Turnbull; and, papers, 1558-1620, concerning Mary Queen of Scots, collected by James Anderson.
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay in 1725-1726 and probably over a somewhat longer period, consisting for the most part of transcripts of royal, episcopal, baronial and other charters and other formal documents from the 12th to the 17th centuries, together with some extracts from medieval cartularies, and a few notes on contemporary published works.
The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.
The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.
Notebook of George Crawfurd containing chiefly excerpts and notes on genealogies, charters of Mortification, and the later Abbots of Holyrood.
Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
‘Notes of genealogies, etc’ in Walter Macfarlane’s handwriting, chiefly regarding his own family, and the Earl of Lennox.
"Observationes collectæ ex Libro cui titulus est ‘extract ex Chronicis Scotiæ'. Hic notantur ea quæ Historiano Ecclesiasticam pertinent”, being notes of Sir Robert Sibbald chiefly on ecclesiastical history, from various sources.
This volume and Adv.MS.15.2.1 consist of extracts and notes by Sir Robert Sibbald from the manuscript called ‘Extracta de Cronicis’ which he says was given by William, Bishop of Dumblane, to Henry Sinclair, Dean of Glasgow, in 1550.
At the end are a few miscellaneous notes from Mylne’s Bishops of Dunkeld, Martins reliquiæ, the Consistorial Acts at Rome regarding promotions of Scotch Churchmen, the manuscript of Boyd of Trochrig and other works.
Papers chiefly concerning teinds.
Papers (chiefly printed) originating with Sir John Sinclair.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
Photocopies of typescript transcriptions of letters of Thomas Telford to Andrew Little and other members of the Little family, with letters relating to Telford.
Includes notes and extracts from letterbooks of Joseph Mitchell.