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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 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.
Manuscript and typescript copies of poems of Gerald Wooley Watson.
With notes by the author.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Manuscript of 'The Gododdin' by William Owen Pughe, with facing English translation, and other papers.
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.
Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.
Microfilm of schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
Microfilm of transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly of the seventeenth century and chiefly relating to affairs in Scotland.
There are some transcripts, notes, and a table of contents in a modern hand.
Miscellany of antiquarian papers compiled by Richard Augustine Hay in 1725-1726 and probably over a somewhat longer period, consisting for the most part of transcripts of royal, episcopal, baronial and other charters and other formal documents from the 12th to the 17th centuries, together with some extracts from medieval cartularies, and a few notes on contemporary published works.
The papers are in some confusion and many others dispersed. Some (Adv.MS.25.9.10) were acquired by the Advocates` Library in 1881 as part of the Riddell Papers; and others (Acc.5022 and Acc.5694) were acquired by the National Library of Scotland in 1970 and 1972.
The purposes for which the papers were originally compiled and the circumstances of their dispersal are alike unknown.
Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd; with a transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', and a note by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society.
'Notes and Memorandums calculated to refresh the mind of the Writer and to excite Reflection. Partly transcribed from a previous book of Notandums' by Alexander Kincaid Mackenzie.
Notes and transcripts concerning the Knights Templar and Knights of St John in Scotland.
With bookplate of James Maidment.
Notes concerning, and transcripts of, chronicles and other material from various Welsh manuscripts made by William Forbes Skene.
Notes of Dr Alexander Mitchell for a biography of John Gibson Lockhart, taken chiefly from manuscript material in the National Library of Scotland.
The notes fill fifty-four notebooks (MSS.5210-5263).
MSS.5264-5265 contain miscellaneous correspondence and papers concerning John Gibson Lockhart.
Notes, transcripts and extracts compiled by and for Lieutenant-General George Henry Hutton relating to Aberdeen and its ecclesiastical antiquities.
Papers and correspondence of Dudley Sommer concerning his biography of Lord Haldane.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
Papers of and concerning Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle and their home at 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea.
Papers of David Torrance relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.
Papers of George Douglas Brown.
Comprising:
school essay, "Science and Intellectual Philosophy; their Aims and Relations"
letter of Brown, on the death of his mother
notes and transcriptions, undated, of Brown.