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Letters of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, to his brother-in-law, Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston, and his sister Jane, Sir Archibald`s wife.
Among the subjects of the letters are his troubled relations with Sir John Bellenden, the Lord Justice Clerk, the education of his nephew, John (the inventor of logarithms), and the plague at Edinburgh.
Letters of Agnes Mure Mackenzie to Duncan M Morison, with manuscripts and typescripts of poems.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Letters of King Charles II relating to a dispute between Thomas Fleming, merchant, and Captain Cornelius Vanderzype,1650-1651, and papers concerning coal-mining at Tranent, 1745-1746.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Letters to and miscellaneous papers of Donald Alexander Mackenzie.
An accomplished journalist, author, and poet, Donald Alexander Mackenzie is best known for a notable series of books on mythology, archaeology, and anthropology. His papers reflect his wide range of ability and interest.
Letters to John Duncan Hamilton of Glasgow, mostly on literary matters.
Letters to Robert Beatson concerning his proposed work on the English peerage (see Adv.MS.33.5.9).
The letters are mainly from a variety of British peers and several include genealogical accounts of their families.
Letters to Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, with some other papers.
The letters deal chiefly with the imprisonment of Lord Lovat at Angoulême and at Saumur, and the activities of his friends and his enemies in France and in Scotland with regard to it, and contain news of contemporary events in France, Holland and Great Britain. The principal correspondents are Colonel Gordon O’Neill, the Marquis and Marquise de la Frézelière, the financier Nicolas Desmarets, and Roujault, Intendant of Poitou.
'Lettre écrite au duc de Perth', ([Paris], 1712), by Father Richard Hay, with extensive manuscript notes and corrections in the hand of the author.
The manuscript notes in this copy differ considerably from those, also in Father Richard Hay's hand, on another copy of this pamphlet, in MS.2936, folio 155.
‘List of the Nos. in Collington Parish in 1780’.
Literary papers, a political notebook and letters of Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Politician and Author [1845-1937]. With three letters to Gavin Maxwell.
The main interest of the papers lies in the manuscripts and proofs of some of Sir Herbert’s many literary works including `Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence`, 1897, `The Chevalier of the Splendid Crest`, 1900, `A Century of Empire, 1801-1900`, 1909, `Inter-alia : A Scottish Calendar of Crime and other historical essays`, 1924, and `Evening Memories`, 1932.
Literary papers and diaries of the author and poet, Violet Jacob (1863-1946).
Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.
Literary papers of the poet Bessie MacArthur (1889-1983).
Manuscript and printed versions of "Moidart, or Among the Clan Ranalds", (Oban, 1889) by the Rev Fr Charles MacDonald.
Includes letters, 1914, concerning a new edition of the book.
Manuscript, circa 1600, of Robert Lindesay, "History and Chronicles of Scotland".
With a list of the Bishops of Moray to 1638, and a letter, 1847, of Cosmo Innes to William Brodie, concerning the manuscript.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
Manuscript fragments of, and letters of and to, Sir Walter Scott.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Manuscript material in the collection of printed Bibles, psalters, hynm-books, etc., of William Cowan, editor of the ‘Church Hymnary’, and author of ‘The bibliography of the book of common order and psalm book of the Church of Scotland, 1556-1644’.
Manuscript notes and writings of George Mackay Brown, including journal entries, lists, drafts of a short story, review, and poems.
Manuscript of a poem of John Caulfield, "The Triumph of Love".
With a letter of Thomas Blacklock to Caulfield.