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Typescript copy of an unpublished history of Broughton Secondary School, Edinburgh, by John G Sinclair.
Typescript copy of H R Kelham, "The 1st Battalion the Highland Light Infantry in South Africa. 1899-1901".
Typescript copy of historical writings of George Dott, principally about the Scottish coal, mineral and railway industries, and marine and maritime matters; with a copy of 'A Scottish Earl Chemist: The First Discovery of Gas' (1902), by J Wilson Dougal, re-printed from the West Lothian Courier.
The volume also contains copies of the published versions of some of the typescripts, and of some material not present in typescript form.
Typescript copy of "The Ladies Quarter".
Concerning Leitholm and its surroundings.
Typescript description, 1952, of the parish of Kidalton, Islay, by Alexander and Islay D Shanks, later published in the "Third Statistical Account of Argyll".
Typescript history, 1972, of Port Ellen school, Islay, by Peggy Earle, pupil and teacher at the school.
Typescript drafts, both much corrected and added to, with parts of a third, of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century; a brief account of the administrations is followed by a detailed postal history.
The authors appear from internal evidence to be William W Forsyth and H G Porter, the date of composition the late 1930s.
Typescript history of Cumbernauld by the Reverend John Ogilvie.
With a scrapbook, circa 1940, containing press cuttings of articles of Ogilvie.
Typescript history of the Lovat Scouts in the Great War.
Typescript local history of Anne Gordon, "Nigg: a Changing Parish".
Typescript notes compiled by James Steuart.
Concerning the Steuart family and on the history of the legal firm, J C and A Steuart.
Typescript of an extended essay of James Bruce on the history of Highland roads and bridges.
Typescript of an unpublished literary and cultural history of Edinburgh in the age of enlightenment by Agnes M Macdonald.
Typescript of C G Macdowall, "The Chanonry of Ross, Being Studies in the History of Fortrose and Rosemarkie and the Cathedral Kirk of Ross".
Typescript of 'Edinburgh Theatres, Cinemas and Circuses, 1820-1963' by George Baird, with index.
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.
Typescript of thesis of Philippe Plantade, "Histoire des Institutions Judiciaires Éccosaises".
Typescript of "Time Bombs. A Short History of the Clocktower Press", by Duncan McLean.
Typescript of two lectures on the history of Airdrie, by James Thomson Rankin.
Typescript of unpublished work of Alexander Law, "Schoolbooks and Textbooks in Scotland in the 18th Century: a Handlist with Introduction and Notes".
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Typescripts, manuscripts, research notes, correspondence and other papers of Duncan Fraser and of Standard Press publishers, Montrose.
Including corrected typescripts and proofs of historical and topographical works, and circa 400 letters and copies of letters.
With papers, 1928-1959, of the Standard Press, Montrose.