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Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.546
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Printed demand addressed to Sir Thomas Pope of Wroxton, signed by King Charles I and countersigned by Sir Edward Littleton, Lord Chancellor, for a voluntary contribution to the loan raised against the Scots invasion, 1643/1644. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter to the High Sheriff of the County of Montgomery, signed by King Charles I and countersigned by Littleton, 1644. Half the loan raised in the County is to be paid to Prince Rupert for the army...
Dates:
1643-1869, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.14
Scope and Contents
(i) Letters of, among others:Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, to Charles X of Sweden, 1659, asking for help in the defence of his estates; James, 2nd Earl of Airlie, to Sir David Ogilvy of Inverquharity, 1672, on financial matters; various persons to Alexander Mundell, economist, 1798, 1806, 1811, on legal business;Sir George Steuart Mackenzie to William Dundas, 1802, on the appointment of ministers to Gareloch and Applecross; ...
Dates:
1659-1831.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates:
18th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Miscellaneous purchases.
File
Identifier: MS.20766
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Correspondence, 1802-1815, undated, of and concerning R B Sheridan (including letters of Sir John Macpherson and Samuel Whitbread, and material on the Drury Lane Theatre) and his son Thomas (including descriptions of a journey to Edinburgh and of Madeira); a poem, 1772, of Sheridan to his future wife; and various notes and press cuttings, 1788-1914, undated, on Sheridan and his works (folio 1);
(ii) Letters, 1922-1928, of Sir James G Frazer to William...
Dates:
1772-1930, undated.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
File
Identifier: MS.10279
Scope and Contents
The material is predominantly literary and is chiefly confined to the 19th century. Among the more notable items are:Seven letters of Allan Cunningham, 1828-1840, chiefly to Captain Charles Gray of the Royal Marines, with an undated manuscript of the poem 'The standard bearer' published in ‘Poems and songs’ (London, 1847) by Cunningham, under the title 'The Cavalier' (folios 43-59);Papers of James Hogg, including manuscripts of his poems 'A Scottish ballad', circa...
Dates:
1592, 1723-1891, undated.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Miscellaneous single letters and small collections of correspondence chiefly of nineteenth century literary and scientific figures.
File
Identifier: MS.11000
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes groups of letters, 1846-1858, of George Combe to Robert Dunn (folios 19-38), of James Nasmyth to Henry Bicknell, son-in-law of the painter David Roberts, 1859-1879 (folios 140-176), of John Rae, the Arctic explorer, to Gladys Holman-Hunt, 1883-1893 (folios 186-223), and of James J Maclntyre to his brother Patrick, vividly describing a voyage from Liverpool to Buenos Aires, 1818-1821 (folios 98-121). A letter, 1846, of the poet David Stevenson includes one of his...
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous small collections of letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.1006
Dates:
1620-1837, undated.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Nine letters and notes of Sean Rafferty to Betty Cummings, with one manuscript and six typescript poems.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13202
Scope and Contents
The letters and notes are mainly short, and concern some of Rafferty`s manuscripts, which Betty Cummings may have been typing for him; there is also some domestic detail in the longer letters. The poems are a manuscript of `Case history`, and typescripts of `Exposition`, `Biography`, `Soliloquy`, `Finale` and an untitled poem beginning `Dryden and Donne ...`. The vendor also supplied copies of some photographs of Betty Cummings and her circle, some of whom are mentioned in the letters.
Dates:
1934-1937.
Notebook of William Wallace.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8250
Scope and Contents
Containing verses and drawings.
With some unconnected letters.
Dates:
1900-1901.
Papers and poetry concerning the Macrae family.
File
Identifier: Acc.13984
Content Description
Letter, 1925, of John T. Macrae, Inverinate, to H. R. Macrae of Macrae, Flett and Rennie, W.S., concerning a Macrae monument erected by Col. John Macrae-Gilstrap. With a sketch of the monument and a transcription of the text on it. Also contains typescript copies, 1908, of two Gaelic songs: Donnchadh Mòr Mac Rath, song headed "Marbh rann do Tearachair [sic] Ban MacRath Fear Inbhirintait, 1711", beginning: 'A duigh 's mor mo chuid calla / 'Smi bhi amharc am fearann ud...
Dates:
1908-1925 and undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of Alan Bold.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10529
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and short stories, undated, and 180 letters, 1979-1990, to Bold on literary matters, including his "MacDiamrid; a Critical Biography".
Dates:
1979-1990 and undated.
Papers of Alan Bold, David Morrison, and Tom Scott.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6329/1-9
Scope and Contents
Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.
With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.
Dates:
1972-1974 and undated.
Papers of Alexander Reid.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8348
Scope and Contents
Including letters, notebooks, diaries and corrected typescripts of plays, short stories, poems, novels, and articles.
Correspondents include James Bridie, Neil Gunn, and Robert McLellan.
Dates:
1928-1981.
Papers of and concerning Eric Linklater.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10282/1-69
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.
Dates:
1916-1977.