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A copy of Alexander Monro's 'Essay on female conduct' (MS.6658), incorporating the corrections and containing most of the additional material, made by Margaret Monro, in accordance with her father's intentions.
Accounts of the early oriental and classical mythical gods and heroes and Roman Emperors and Empresses, followed by notes on some classical fables.
The author's name appears as Dominicus Tagliaboscus on folio 142 verso, with the date 1702, and on folio 305.
Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
'Book of verses’ by W E Henley (London, 1888), inscribed on the flyleaf and presented to Frederick Locker-Lampson by the author.
W E Henley's letter accompanying the volume, together with a later letter, 1890, to Frederick Locker-Lampson, are enclosed in an envelope that has been tipped in inside the front cover.
Bookplates of Harold Nelson sent to Otto Schulze and Co.
Commonplace book in verse and prose.
701 pages, with Aberdeen connections, bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldornie and Wardhouse, and ownership inscription of Thomas Mercer.
Commonplace book, probably English, mostly compiled from classical authors and church fathers.
Later authors include Bishop Stillingfleet (folio 197), Thomas Hooker (folio 92) and John Paul Marana, author of ‘The Turkish Spye’ (1686) (folio 178).
The date of the volume is no earlier than 1686.
Copies, in an eighteenth-century hand, of Jacobite tracts, in a book containing Thomas Ruddiman's bookplate and a list of contents in his autograph.
Copies of poems concerning Lanarkshire in an unidentified nineteenth-century hand.
Copy, 18th century, of “Chroniques au foumaire recit de ce qui se trouve de plus remarquable dans l’etat de la Republique de Geneve et de l’eglise qui y est recueillie depuis qu’elle est connue jusques à l’année 1562 par Michel Rozet.”
Six volumes bound in four.
Copy of ‘Pièces en trio pour les flutes, violon et dessus de viole’ by Marin Marais.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Correspondence of James Maidment with and concerning John Riddell, with some other papers of Riddell.
The letters chiefly concern genealogical matters and the disposal after his death of John Riddell's manuscripts (the Riddell Collection), which were arranged by James Maidment and chiefly purchased by Lord Lindsay for ultimate preservation in the Advocates' Library.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected anonymously.
The first two leaves seem to belong to the end.
'Domestic manners and private life of Sir Walter Scott’ by James Hogg (Glasgow, 1834), containing a brief note from Scott to James Ballantyne, 1824, and an undated note from Hogg to Robert Boyd.
Further papers of the Douglas of Cavers family.
Annotated envelopes containing hair of members of the Douglas and Malcolm families and book plates of William Elphinstone Malcolm of Burnfoot.
'Historical memoirs of his late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland' (London, 1767), with marginal notes of Thomas Carlyle.
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
Lady Louisa Stuart's ballad, "Ugly Meg, or, The Robber's Wedding" ('Muckle-mouthed Meg'), in Sir Walter Scott's hand.
The ballad is undated, but is written on paper watermarked 1805.
There are some words and phrases in another hand in places where the original writing has been deleted.
With a frontispiece in watercolour and a tailpiece in pencil.
Letter of David Macbeth Moir to Robert Macnish, thanking him for a copy of his ‘Philosophy of sleep’, referring to possible notices of it in the press, and containing some information about John Galt; pasted into a copy of Moir's ‘Biographical memoir of John Galt’ (Edinburgh, 1841).
Letters addressed to or collected by members of the Bliss family (Dr J Bliss, Hampstead and Bath; Reverend William Bliss, Newnton and Bath; Reverend James Bliss, editor of Laud; William H Bliss).
The correspondents of the Blisses are literary, antiquarian, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the early 19th century. In addition, at least one of the family collected autographs and several of his own time and of the 18th century are included. A number of letters are addressed to Thomas Park, the antiquary, and others are written by members of the Athenaeum to the Secretary, Edward Magrath.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.