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"The Humble Complaint of Geo[rge] Eglisham Doctor of Physicke" addressed to Charles I.
Includes typescript transcription.
Transcript, 1993, of letter of John Rennie to Robert Stevenson.
Transcripts of letters of or concerning John Leyden.
The letters are chiefly addressed to Richard Heber, and include some written by William Erskine regarding the collection and preservation of John Leyden's writings, 1812-[1817].
Travel journal of Francis Jeffreys in the United States.
Covers visits to New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other places, and contains an account of Jeffreys` discussions with President Madison and Secretary of State Monroe.
Includes typed transcript of Sir Denis Brogan.
Typed letter from Thomas Innes of Learney, advocate, to W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates’ library, 30 May 1921, referring to the provenance of a portrait of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, at Kingcausie; and a typed transcript (folio 4) of an account of the duel between Sir Alexander Boswell, Baronet, and James Stuart of Dunearn, 1822, written by Mary Ann, daughter of Claud Boswell, Lord Balmuto, with a transcript of a related letter.
The originals were owned by Miss E B Irvine-Fortescue of Kingcausie in 1921.
Typed transcript of a letter of David Roberts to Wentworth Dilke.
Typed transcript of minutes of the Bo`ness Branch of the Independent Labour Party.
Includes subject and name indexes.
Typed transcripts, 1956-1957, concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose in the period 1455-1710.
Comprising typed transcripts of the town council minutes and burgh count books of the Burgh of the Chanonry of Ross, 1647-1658, and the Burgh of Fortrose, 1674-1710, and of charters and other deeds concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose, 1455-1661.
Typed transcripts of correspondence concerning the mission to Brazil of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay.
Typed transcripts of letters to John Mackenzie of Delvine, Advocate, from the wife and son of the Reverend Dr Alexander Monro, and from Alexander Monro, Provost of St Salvator’s College, St. Andrews.
Typed transcripts of radio broadcasts by Denys Hay on "Aspects of the Renaissance".
Typed transcripts of 'The Bush aboon Traquair' and 'The surpassing adventures of Allan Gordon' by James Hogg.
Typed transcripts of the library catalogues of Robert Erskine (1719) and Archibald Pitcairne (1718).
Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.
The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.
The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.
Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.
Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.
Typescript copy of a manuscript register of Leith Races, 1753-1770.
Typescript transcripts of correspondence of the descendants of James Lundie, Minister of North Leith, who died in 1696, principally that of his great-grandson, Robert, Minister of Kelso.
The letters fall into three divisions. The first (MS.1675, folio 1) contains letters to James Lundie at Leyden and Amsterdam, chiefly from his brother Archibald, Minister of Saltoun, 1708-1710; the second (MS.1675, folio 47), general family correspondence, 1745-1770; the third (MS.1675, folio 80, and MS. 1676), the correspondence of Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, and others. The writers include many eminent authors and theologians of the time.