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Two letters, 1824, of George Ticknor and George Huntly Gordon.

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Identifier: Acc.11580
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Letters concern portraits of Sir Walter Scott. Also includes:

1. unrelated letter, 1812, of Sir David Wilkie

2. autograph note, 1816, of Walter Scott to James Ballantyne about "The Antiquary"

3. printed letter, 1829, of Scott

Dates: 1812-1824.

Two manuscripts bound together, containing the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.14
Scope and Contents The first part, sections (i)-(xv), contains the burgh laws, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam Attachiamenta’, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, written by G H about the middle of the 15th century; the second, sections (xvii)-(xxi), contains the burgh laws, statutes, and other smaller legal texts, in Scots, written at the same period. Sections (xxii)-(xxiii) are a slightly later addition. Section (xvi) is an 18th-century copy.(i) `Leges et consuetudines quatuor...
Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Typed copies of newspaper articles and correspondence relating to John Knox, from the scrap-book of David Hay Fleming.

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Identifier: MS.2932
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include David Hay Fleming himself, Hume Brown, Andrew Lang, and James King Hewison.

Dates: 1890-1905.

Typescript, 1920, of ‘The Gordons of Craichlaw’ by William MacMath, with corrections and prefatory notes by the author.

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Identifier: MS.5198
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A letter about the work from E A Hornel, 1921, and a copy of Macmath's reply have been inserted (folio i).

Dates: 1920-1921.

Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.

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Identifier: MS.8028
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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.

Dates: 1798-1827, undated.

Typescript copies of two letters of J Scott.

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Identifier: Acc.9590
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Describing in detail journeys in Tanzania and Kenya.

Dates: 1955-1959.

Typescript copy of an incomplete diary of Charles McKelvie, Isca, near Campbeltown.

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Identifier: Acc.6937
Scope and Contents

Describing journey on S S Dunedin, with his sister, as an emigrant to Port Chalmers, New Zealand.

Dates: 1879.

Typescript copy of "Country Magazine", nos 25-50, a series of BBC Home Service broadcasts, 1943-1944, annotated by Francis Collinson, and a typescript copy of a Scottish Home Service broadcast, 1955.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11745
Scope and Contents

The Scottish Home Service broadcast typescript is of "A Scottish Journey", in which Collinson makes a musical journey of Scotland.

Dates: 1943-1955 and undated.

Typescript copy of diary of Captain D P Apthorp, Royal Norfolk Regiment.

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Identifier: Acc.9676
Scope and Contents

Concerns time as prisoner of war of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Dates: 1942-1945.

Typescript copy of letter, 1857, of David Livingstone.

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Identifier: Acc.11447
Scope and Contents

Livingstone thanks the unidentified recipient for her gifts for his work.

Dates: 1857.

Typescript copy of letter of John M Cockburn.

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Identifier: Acc.8377
Scope and Contents

Describing trench warfare and the Battle of Festubert.

Dates: 1915.

Typescript copy of report, 1920, of expedition of Alexander M Kellas to ascend Kamet in the Himalayas.

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Identifier: Acc.9603
Scope and Contents

With presentation note and letter, 1921, to Dr Ernest L Kennaway.

Dates: 1920-1921

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Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 7
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 5
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 3
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Campbell, Sir Colin, 2nd Baronet, of Glenorchy, 1577-1640 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Macarthur, family, Nairn, Scotland, Manitoba, Canada 2
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 2
Adolphus, John Leycester, barrister and author, 1795-1862: recipient 1
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling, founder of Nova Scotia, c 1577-1640 1
Allen, Gladys Hope, genealogist, b 1875 1
Alpine Club 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Armistead, John, commentator on occupation of Newcastle by Scottish army, fl 1641 1
Armstrong, Robert B, antiquary, fl 1880 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Bain, Margaret I, correspondent of Henry W Meikle, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, fl 1932 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Baird, John Lawrence, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, 1874-1941 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour (statesman) 1
Ball, Sir Alexander John, Baronet, Rear-Admiral, 1756-1809 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908: recipient 1
Barnett, David, Curator of Lady Stair's House Museum, Edinburgh, fl 1918-1936 1
Barnwell, Henry Thomas, Professor of French Language and Literature, b 1920 1
Beattie, George, poet, 1786-1823 1
Bell, Alexander Graham, inventor of the telephone, 1847-1922 1
Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 1
Bell, William, great grand-nephew of Henry Bell, builder of the "Comet", d 1978 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René, poet and author, 1870-1953: recipient 1
Boece, Hector, historian, c 1465-1536 1
Bogie, James, Kirkcaldy, fl 1939-1980 1
Boston, Thomas, divine, the Elder, 1676-1732 1
Boswell, Euphemia, wife of Alexander, Lord Auchinleck, née Erskine, 1718-1766 1
Boswell, John, Lieutenant, 21st (Royal North British Fusilier) Regiment of Foot, 1743-c 1798 1
Boswell, John, clerk, fl 1774-1779 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan, barrister, 1818-1905: recipient 1
Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich, playwright, 1898-1956 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Service, public service broadcaster 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish Home Service, 1939-1967, public service broadcaster 1
British Order of Ancient Free Gardeners, fraternal society 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (statesman, Lord Chancellor) (1778-1868) 1
Brown, Iain Gordon, Principal Curator of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, b 1950 1
Brown, T Gordon, correspondent of Michael Roberts, poet and mountaineer, fl 1946 1
Brown, William Alexander, military adventurer, 1922-1984 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Bruce, Robert, Cape May, New Jersey, fl 1933-1983 1
Bruce, Robert, Cape May, New Jersey, fl 1933-1983: recipient 1
Burgess, Alexander, author of "Passport from China", fl 1900-1956 1
Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817 1
Cadell and Davies, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Caledonian Railway Company 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, George William, 6th Duke of Argyll, 1768-1839 1
Campbell, Jean Davidson, missionary in India, fl 1900-1940 1
Canning, George, statesman, 1770-1827: recipient 1
Carey, William (Baptist missionary in India) 1
Cargill, Dame Helen Wilson, Air Commandant, 1896-1969 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881: transcriber 1
Chalmers, John, son of Theodore, medical missionary, fl 2005 1
Chalmers, Theodore, medical missionary, 1884-1973 1
Chapman, Sir Stephen Remnant, Knight, Colonel-Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1776-1851: recipient 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Charlton, Bruce G, Professor of Theoretical Medicine, University of Buckingham, fl 1982-2000 1
Clerk, Sir John, 2nd Baronet, of Penicuik, 1676-1755 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis, Knight, Admiral, 1758-1832: recipient 1
Cochrane, Jane, wife of Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, née Stuart, d 1808 1
Cockburn, John M, Sergeant, 23rd London Regiment, fl 1915 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Combe, George (Writer to the Signet, phrenologist) 1
Combe, George, Writer to the Signet, phrenologist, 1788-1858 1
Connel, John, emigrant to Quebec, fl 1845-1860 1
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