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Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.
Political correspondence of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, mainly as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West, 1974-1997, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians, 1999-2007.
Press cuttings and typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of articles of Seton Gordon.
Mostly on Scottish birds.
Printed proofs of an article by Sir Walter Scott with his autograph corrections.
Professional and personal papers of Ethel Bassin; including papers concerning her biography of Francis Tolmie, 'The Old Songs of Skye' (1977).
Research papers and analysis concerning migration between villages in the Faroe Islands and out of the Faroe Islands.
Scientific papers, journals and correspondence of Alexander Turnbull Christie (died 1832), assistant surgeon in the East India Company.
In 1828 Alexander Turnbull Christie returned to Scotland and studied geology, meteorology, and other branches of science in Edinburgh and on the Continent. In 1830 he was appointed geological surveyor on the Madras establishment, but did not return to India until the following year. He contributed a number of papers to the ‘Edinburgh new philosophical journal’.
Scottish medical recipe book, 1688-1689, lecture notes on medicine, late 18th century, and copies of papers, 1821-1827, of Francis Hamilton.
Six letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Fergusson.
The letters are in continuation of MSS.555-556.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Some papers of Hew Morrison, Fellow of the Society of Antiquities Scotland, Edinburgh City Librarian, and editor of ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ by Rob Donn.
'Some terrible letters from Scotland communicated by The Ettrick Shepherd.’
Descriptions, in the hand of James Hogg, of real or imaginary incidents of the cholera plague of 1832 in Lothian, on the West Coast, and in Fisherrow, in letters purporting to have been written to him by Andrew Ker, alias Clapperton, Alexander McAlister, mate of the ‘Jane Hamilton’ of Port Glasgow, and James McL-- respectively.
Also printed proofs of an article by James Douglas, titled, 'The three plagues of Bombay' (folio 11).
Three articles from 'The Juridical Review', titled 'The Advocates' Library' by William Kirk Dickson.
Three letters, 1890-1892, of James Hardy, Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, to John Freer, Fordel, about papers for the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club and kindred matters.
Translations by Robert Burness of Ivan Nazhivia, "On the Business of Futurity", and "The Communists".
Typed copies of newspaper articles and correspondence relating to John Knox, from the scrap-book of David Hay Fleming.
The correspondents include David Hay Fleming himself, Hume Brown, Andrew Lang, and James King Hewison.
Typescript article of John O`Rockie, "Scottish Mythology... Political and Historical".
Typescript articles of Jim Craigen, former Labour and Co-op MP for Glasgow Maryhill.
Typescript history of Cumbernauld by the Reverend John Ogilvie.
With a scrapbook, circa 1940, containing press cuttings of articles of Ogilvie.
Typescript of William G Boag, "Percussion in Military Service".
With diagrams of different types of drum.
Typescript of William Montgomerie, "Prince Hamlet`s Play-Within-The-Play; a New Interpretation from the Second Quarto (1604)".
Typescript, undated, of an autobiographical work of Margaret Mackenzie Scott, "Childhood of a Nobody", with other papers.
Including typescripts of a short story, undated, and articles, 1923-1940.