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Microfilm of letter, [1821, of after], of James Hogg; and, manuscripts, [1825-1832], of parts of ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ in the hands of James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, and John Wilson.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1101
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: ‘Letter to a friend in London; containing observations on the memoir of himself written by James Hogg ... and prefixed to a late edition of the "Mountain Bard"’, (Edinburgh, 1821) by George Goldie, [1821, of after] (MS.3369);

Manuscripts, [1825-1832], of parts of ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ in the hands of James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, and John Wilson. (MS.4854).

Dates: [1821, of after-1832].

Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1209-1234
Scope and Contents

The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.

The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: ?19th century-[?1921].

Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.497
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works, ?15th century-17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.41);

Manuscript of various Gaelic texts, 17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.42).

Dates: 14th century-17th century

Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts, late 17th century; and, letters, 1694-1701, to Professor James Wodrow, and his sons, Alexander and Robert.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.560
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín, 1696 (Adv.MS.33.4.11);

Gaelic manuscript (Adv.MS.50.3.12);

Letters, 1694-1701, to Professor James Wodrow, and his sons, Alexander and Robert (Wod.Lett.Qu.I).

Dates: Late 17th century-1701.

Minutes of Sederunt of the Committee of Management of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons (from 1800 the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry), 15 March, 1797-9 July, 1801.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.21
Scope and Contents

Sir Walter Scott was quartermaster and secretary, and regularly attended the meetings. The minutes are in a clerk`s hand. Some letters concerning the company have been pasted in towards the end, and some concerning the manuscript at the beginning. There is a list of members at the end.

Dates: 1797-1801.

Miscellaneous autograph letters, official documents, signatures, etc., pasted into an album.

 File
Identifier: MS.3873
Scope and Contents

There are a number of letters to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767), which relate largely to his antiquarian interests. Most of the other letters are also of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the writers include noblemen, churchmen, public servants, and prominent literary figures.

Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates: 1532-18th century, and undated.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

Miscellaneous documents and letters.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates: 1597-1752.

Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents

There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.

Dates: 17th century-circa 1754.

Miscellaneous items.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.12
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Abstract in English of Gerard Goris`s treatise on mercury, ‘Mercurius Triumphator’, probably made from the Leyden edition of 1717. Written in three hands of the early 18th century (folio 1).(ii) `The Dyet of Poland, A Satyr. Lib. J.H. Aug. 27. 1705.` A copy in two hands, of Daniel Defoe`s verse satire, published anonymously in London (with the false imprint `Dantzick`) in 1705 (folio 20). It is followed (folio 41) by a...
Dates: 16th century-18th century.

Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.308
Scope and Contents

Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;

Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;

Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;

Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;

Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.

Dates: 1786-1897.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 Series
Identifier: MS.14835
Dates: 1708-early 19th century.

Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3112

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3278

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.22

Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly of the seventeenth century and chiefly relating to affairs in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: MS.3368
Scope and Contents

There are some transcripts, notes, and a table of contents in a modern hand.

Dates: 1545-1745.

Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates: 1561, 17th century-late 19th century.

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Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 2
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 2
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Bowring, Sir John, Knight, politician, diplomatist and author, 1792-1872: recipient 2
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet, known as 'Lord Byron') (1788-1824) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 2
Munro, Neil, author, pseudonym Hugh Foulis, 1864-1930 2
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 2
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Andrews, Cicily Isabel, Dame, author, née Fairfield, pseudonym 'Rebecca West', 1892-1983 1
Ballantine, James, glass-painter and song-writer, c 1807-1877 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Blacklock, Thomas, poet and writer, 1721-1791 1
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 1
Bonington, Christian John Store, Sir, Knight (mountaineer, writer and photographer) 1
Bottrall, Ronald, poet, 1906-1989 1
Boult, Sir Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
Brodie, William, sculptor, 1815-1881: recipient 1
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Caulfield, John, Archdeacon of Kilmore, d 1816 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975 1
Clark, Margaret, playwright, pseudonym Lesley Storm, née Cowie, 1898-1975. 1
Clodd, Harold Alexander Alan, publisher and book collector, 1918-2002 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Cook, Elizabeth Crosby, Hassocks, Sussex, fl 1979-1981: recipient 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Crawford, Kenna (artist) (b. 1959) 1
Dares Phrygius 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Datta, Kitty W Scoular, Head of Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, née Scoular, b 1930 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, poet, b 1942 1
Durrell, Lawrence George, novelist and poet, 1912-1990 1
Empson, Sir William, Knight, poet and literary critic, 1906-1984 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980: recipient 1
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bishop of St Asaph and chronicler) 1
Gillman, Peter (journalist and mountaineer) 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Hamilton, Robert, theatre company manager, fl 1793-1794 1
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, Knight, General, 1853-1947 1
Haston, Duncan Curdy McSporran (mountaineer) 1
Houston, Douglas, poet, b 1947: recipient 1
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 1
Innes, Cosmo, antiquary, 1798-1874 1
Jeffrey, Margaret W J, wife of William, poet, née Graham, fl 1946-1975 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Keating, Geoffrey (Seathrún Céitinn), ca. 1580-ca. 1644 1
Kerr, Roderick Watson, poet and author, d c 1973 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Leigh, Vivien, actress, 1913-1967 1
Lindesay, Robert, of Pitscottie, historian, c 1532-c 1586 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Liston, family 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 1
Logan, Patrick (schoolmaster in Lurgan, Co. Armagh) 1
MacDonald, Charles, priest in Moidart, 1835-1894 1
MacEwen, Sir Alexander Malcolm, Knight, solicitor, 1875-1941 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacNicol, Donald, Minister of Lismore, 1735-1802 1
MacNicol, Dugald, 1791-1844 (Gaelic poet and song collector) 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Macfie, Ronald Campbell, physician and writer, d 1931 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 1
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991: recipient 1
Mackenzie, Agnes Mure, historian and author, 1891-1955 1
Mackie, Albert David, poet, 1904-1985 1
Maitland, William, historian and topographer, c 1693-1757 1
Malcolm, Charles Adolf, Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces, India, 1879-1948 1
Mare, Walter John de la, poet and author, 1873-1956 1
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 1
Maxwell , Gavin, Naturalist and author, 1914-1969: recipient 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
McArthur, William, playwright, fl 1940-1961 1
McLeish, Richard James, surveyor for HM Customs and Excise, writer and poet, 1894-1965 1
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