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Letter, 1980, of Robert Garioch to John Milligan.
With Milligan`s reply and transcript, an Empire Theatre poster on the same topic, and donation letter, 1991.
Letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland and related material.
Letter of Edwin Muir to A J McGeoch.
With transcript.
Letter of Edwin Muir to A J McGeoch, with transcript.
Letter of Gordon Bottomley to Alexander Gray.
Includes vendor`s transcript and notes.
Letter of Henry David Inglis to his publisher Mr How of Whittaker and Co., London.
Letter of Joyce Cary to Ruari McLean.
Concerns the morality of fighting evil.
Includes transcript of the letter by McLean and signatures of Cary, intended for reproduction in a book.
Letter of Sir Walter Scott to George Canning, on placing Scott’s nephew in India, with copy reply, and typescript transcripts of the letters.
Letter to the heirs of Eustochios.
Written in the 5th or 6th century. The writer is apparently advising on the best course of action, presumably in connection with Eustochios' estate. On the verso, apart from the address, is a memorandum in a different hand. A transcript by Miss E P Wegener accompanies the document.
Letters, 1916-1918 and undated, of Cecile Walton to Eric Robertson, and a letter, 1929, of Dorothy Ratcliffe.
Includes letters, 1917-1942 and undated, of various correspondents and a transcription of the diary, 1907, of Eric Robertson.
Letters and papers of the family of Campbell of Inverawe.
Letters and papers of the Fothringhams of Powrie, the 4th Earl of Perth, and the Blairs of Balthayock.
Letters, and typed transcripts of letters, of Mountstuart Elphinstone, mostly to William Erskine, the historian of India.
The letters concern Indian, Turki and Persian literature, philology and geography, with special reference to Erskine`s translation of Bābar`s Memoirs, and Elphinstone`s ‘Account of the Kingdom of Cabul’. There are very few references to current events, but a small number of letters to Elphinstone are included (Adv.MS.28.5.15, folio 183) which concern the administration of justice in India.
Letters, chiefly of and to Viscount Melville.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Letters of celebrities, some accompanied by transcripts (not wholly accurate), notes, printed matter, and portraits.
Letters of members of the Walker family of Dundonald, Ayrshire.
Includes letters from relations in America and one reporting on anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh 1779, also includes a 19th century transcript (and 20th century typescript copy) of a journal of Josiah Walker, originally written in 1780.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, with associated correspondence, and transcripts of letters of Scott and Constable.
Letters to Sir Sidney Colvin, relating chiefly to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Each letter is accompanied by a typed transcript.
Letters written by John Williams, mineral engineer, to the Earl of Buchan, bound at the end of Williams’ 'An account of some remarkable ancient ruins lately discovered in the Highlands .. .in a series of letters' (Edinburgh, 1777).
With notes on John Williams by the Earl of Buchan, and a modern transcript of a fourteenth 'letter' not printed in the book.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.
Memoir of George Romanes in the form of a letter to his son Professor George Romanes.
Memoir covers some Romanes family history, George Romanes` early life in Edinburgh, his early work as a civil engineer in Egypt and Calgary and war service with the Royal Engineers from 1917-1919. Includes transcript.
Microfilm and partial photocopy of transcripts of letters of Marie de Rabutin Chantal to her daughter.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.
Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);
Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).