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Autograph sermon on 1 Peter iii. 15 by the Reverend Sydney Smith, Canon of St Paul`s; with explanatory letter of the donor, 1919.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.17
Dates:
Circa 1831-1840.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.22016
Dates:
1929, 1955.
Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.10095
Scope and Contents
Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.
Dates:
1962.
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Dates:
circa 1859-1907.
Bazett Michael Haggard, "Objects of Pity" (1892), with author`s corrections and associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8232
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Lloyd Osbourne, 1901, and Isobel Field, 1941.
Dates:
1892-1941.
`Beacone upon the Rock of European and Brittanick alchimie or The phisicianes philosopheres and chimist`s alchimie displayed or the minthouses defended against the grand imposture of transmutatione of mettalles by the universale cure. In a second letter to his Brittanick majestie Queen Anne of Brittaine and Irlande`; an unpublished alchemical treatise by John Leslie, written in the form of two letters to Queen Anne and one to the Duke of Queensberry.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.14
Scope and Contents
The work is undated but was probably written sometime in the early 18th century.
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
Bible, probably written in Italy in the 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.19
Scope and Contents
The order of contents is the usual one (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, ii, pages 210-212), except that the Prayer of Solomon is included at the end of Ecclesiasticus (folio 193). The prologues are as listed in ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, with the following exceptions: 2 Chronicles, no prologue; Job, Stegmüller 349; Psalms, Stegmüller numbers 430, 10470, and 1833, 1; Proverbs has two additional prologues, Stegmüller 456 and 455; Jeremiah has two additional...
Dates:
Mid 13th century.
Bibliographical notes and correspondence of Andrew Gibson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6356
Scope and Contents
Including letters concerning William Guthrie, "The Christian`s Great Interest" (Dumfries, 1785).
Dates:
1891-1897 and undated.
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
File
Identifier: MS.9852
Scope and Contents
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
Dates:
1928-1930.
Bills concerning repairs and maintenance work done at properties in Auchentoshan, and miscellaneous correspondence from the Auchentoshan Deeds, Ch.5911-5945.
File
Identifier: MS.5055
Dates:
[Circa 1802-1843.]
Bills drawn by John Ballantyne, James Ballantyne and Company, and John and Thomas Smith, and accepted by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.20
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the donations is also included.
Dates:
1819, 1822-1825.
Biography of James Bonar, compiled by his son.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6536
Scope and Contents
Mostly comprising extracts from Bonar`s diary and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1830.
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Item
Identifier: MS.10256
Scope and Contents
The album for the most part contains cut-out signatures of well-known nineteenth-century figures but there are also several letters notably of Charles Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Henry Siddons, Samuel Warren and Baroness Wentworth. Also included are autograph poems by Thomas Campbell and James Hogg. The poems of Hogg (folios 64-66) are "Lenochan's farewell", 'The Stuarts of Appin' and 'The poor man', all published in ‘The works of the Ettrick Shepherd' (London, 1873). The verses of Thomas...
Dates:
1829-1872.
'Book of verses’ by W E Henley (London, 1888), inscribed on the flyleaf and presented to Frederick Locker-Lampson by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.9047
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1888, 1890.
Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-26.7.37
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates:
1511-1860.
Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.7
Scope and Contents
The articles in the volume are: an interleaved copy of the third edition of Fleming’s ‘Scottish Banking’ (Edinburgh, 1877); a reprint from ‘Blackwood`s Magazine’, volume 118 (June 1875), of his “Banking and Mr Goschen`s Bill”; `The Interview between Sir Stafford Northcote and the English Bankers` and `Extension of Scottish Banks into England` from “Bankers` Magazine”, volume 36 (July 1876). Pasted in amongst the binder`s blank endpapers are a collection of press-cuttings,...
Dates:
1875-1877.
‘Breviary of the Decisions of the Lords of Session ... and of the Acts of Sederunt, from June, 1661, to July, 1681, observed by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair.’
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.1
Scope and Contents
The Acts of Sederunt, 1661-1681, as in the printed ‘Decisions of the Lords of council and session’, are followed by a summary of Decisions arranged alphabetically according to subject. The text is apparently copied from an incomplete manuscript.At the end, inverted, is a copy of ‘Instructions and rules ... to the Commissaries, clerks, procurators fiscalls, and other members of the court of the whole ecclesiasticall jurisdiction,’ forwarded under cover of a Royal letter dated...
Dates:
1661-1681.
Brief letter of James Hogg.
File
Identifier: Acc.9112
Scope and Contents
With autograph address panel of Horatio, Viscount Nelson.
Dates:
circa 1800-1835.
'Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, commencing in the year 1814', by Joseph Train.
File
Identifier: MS.3277
Scope and Contents
According to an 'introductory letter' to John Gibson Lockhart, 1833, Joseph Train wrote these recollections for the benefit of his children and sent them to Lockhart for use in his ‘Life of Sir Walter Scott’. The work, which includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott, some not printed in the Centenary Edition, gives an account of Train's relations with Scott, of his antiquarian researches and the objects which he presented to Scott, of Galloway traditions, some of which provided...
Dates:
1814-1841.
Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents
Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.
Dates:
1838-1893.
Business and personal correspondence with related financial records of W A L Marr, tea planter, India.
Series
Identifier: Acc.5025/1-9
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers concern his work on the Malayalam, Chembra and Arrapetta tea plantations, but there is also material for the social life of the British in India at the time particularly the Arbuckle Trophy Football Tournament, the Ootacomund Club and the Wynaad Golf Club in the 1960s.
Dates:
1929-1970.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13617
Scope and Contents
The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.
Dates:
Circa 1970-2005.