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Full manuscript scores, 1930 and 1932, of Norman Porteous, "Britannia Invicta", a march for orchestra, and "The Mad Dog of Islington", a musical satire for chorus and orchestra.
File
Identifier: Acc.8048
Scope and Contents
With photocopy of letter, 1979, of Sir Adrian Boult to Elizabeth Crosby Cook, concerning Porteous.
Dates:
1930-1979.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.86-87
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.10
Scope and Contents
The pieces of jewellery are described, with their weight, on the rectos of the folios; on the versos are notes in two different hands, 1606-1611, concerning items taken away for repair, sent to the goldsmiths for use in other pieces, or removed for other reasons.The inventory is not signed but was probably compiled under the supervision of Francis Goffin. See `Anne of Denmark`s Jewellery: The Old and the New`, pages 228-236.A copy of a letter, 1618, to one of the...
Dates:
Circa 1606-1611, 1618.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, 1st Baronet, of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1694-1696
Scope and Contents
These papers are part of the collection which was formed by Sir Henry Steuart with a view to composing a ‘History of the Efforts in behalf of the House of Stuart from the Revolution onwards’, together with papers on the Stuarts and the rebellions which were acquired by Robert Chambers, and notes on persons and events of the period by him.The papers consist of originals and copies; most of them have been incorporated in Robert Chambers’ books or in articles written by him for...
Dates:
1623-1869, undated.
Journal of Sir Walter Scott, with letters and other papers.
Item
Identifier: MS.3389
Scope and Contents
The journal, printed, as in MS.1570, but covering the period from 20 November 1825 to 13 April 1831, and other material collected by John Gibson Lockhart for the ‘Life’, all printed on one side of the page, with manuscript corrections of the text, chiefly typographical.The material other than the journal consists of Mrs John Davy's Malta journal, 1831 (folio 437); letters of Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Scott of Harden, 1832 (folio 444 verso), and others, 1828-1830 (folio 448 verso);...
Dates:
1825-1832.
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.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
Last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots, on 8 February, 1587 (the night before her execution), to her brother-in-law, Henri III of France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.1.1
Scope and Contents
Mary has been unable to obtain her papers in order to make her will. She is to be executed the following morning at 8 o`clock. She has been deprived of her chaplain. She recommends her servants to her brother-in-law, and begs that money may be provided to found an obit and to make the requisite distribution of alms.
Dates:
1587.
Late 14th-century manuscript of part of the 'Chronicle' of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.3
Scope and Contents
The manuscript now ends in the middle of the year 1297, page 297, 1.7 of H Rothwell`s edition; the remainder is British Library,Cotton MSS. Vesp. A.ix, folios 122-153, and Calig. A.xiii, folios 5-16. `Finis` has been substituted on folio 171 verso for the original catchword `Quidam Scottorum`. A letter of Felix Liebermann, 1887, on the relation of this and Cotton Vesp. A.ix is tipped in at folio iii.In the first three gatherings initials and headings are in red,...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Letter, 1824, of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8766
Scope and Contents
With four letters, 1824 and 1828, concerning Byron, and a manuscript of his last poem, undated.
Dates:
1824-1828 and undated.
Letter and five postcards, 1904-1905, of William Sharp.
File
Identifier: Acc.8319
Scope and Contents
With a manuscript poem, undated, "The Dirge of Clan Siubhail", and a letter, 1906, of Mrs Sharp.
Dates:
1904-1906 and undated.
Letter, dated Swanston, 7 June, 1871, of Robert Louis Stevenson to Mrs Brebner, asking her to accept "the little brooch that my father will give you along with this, as a remembrance of my stay at Earraid".
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.32
Dates:
1871.
Letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland and related material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.26-15.1.26C
Dates:
1442, 1922.
Letter of Mary of Guise to François de Noailles, Bishop of Dax, Ambassador of Henri II in England, thanking him for sending her news, with an autograph postscript.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.54.1.5
Dates:
1557.
Letter, signed A B, concerning the early history of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, and disputing Presbyterian and Catholic arguments against it.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.7
Scope and Contents
The letter is not dated, but was written after 1729, since it refers to ‘Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain’. The author was also familiar with the work of Jeremy Collier, Camden, Ussher and other historians.
Dates:
After 1729.
Letters addressed mostly to Dr Robert Anderson, editor of ‘The Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britian’, ‘The Edinburgh Magazine’, etc.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.11
Scope and Contents
The writers include Thomas Percy, Thomas Park, and William Preston.
Dates:
1760-1830.
Letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.2-54.1.4
Dates:
1558-1574.
Letters and manuscripts collected by Mark Napier, author of ‘Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston’, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.757-759
Dates:
1657-19th century.
Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10431
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Letters and papers, 1777-1778, 1795-1804, and undated, sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas`s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.6
Scope and Contents
The papers, which accompany the letters, consist of genealogical accounts of several of the landed families of Scotland, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Most of the letters that are addressed to individuals are to James Watson, who is described as `circulating library, stationer and bookseller` in the Edinburgh directories of the time. The genealogies of the families of Johnstone of Gallabank (folio 62) and of Leslie of Findrassie (folio 70) and the pedigree...
Dates:
1777-1804.