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Photocopy of Colonel Alexander K Reid, "Shoulder to Shoulder: The Glasgow Highlanders, 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry 1914-1918".
Photocopy of Edward Gordon of Cairnfield`s manuscript "History of the House of Gordon".
Photocopy of "Lest we Forget", a description of the sinking of the "Royal Oak" in 1939.
Photocopy of manuscript containing a chronicle and other texts.
Photocopy of paper of J D I Morley, "The Apprehension of Montrose".
Concerns Neil McLeod of Assynt and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.
Photocopy of transcript of J W W Stephenson, "Education in the Presbytery of Dundee in the 18th Century".
Photocopy of typescript of Wing Commander J L Jack, "A Record of the Service and Achievements of 603 City of Edinburgh Squadron...".
Photostats of pedigrees and genealogical tables of the O’Brien family, compiled by the Honourable Donough O'Brien.
Pedigree, 1937, showing the male and female descendants of Dermod and Donough, sons of Murrough O'Brien, the Tanist; 'Genealogical table of the descendants of Milesius . . . in which is shown the pedigree of the O'Brien family ... to 1938', 1938; 'The genealogical table of the O'Brien family', 1938, showing the descent of the 16th Baron Inchiquin from Noah.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Proof copy of Andrew L Drummond, "German Protestantism Since Luther" (1951), and annotated copy of "The Story of American Protestantism" (1st [British] edition, 1949) by the same author.
With associated letters and papers.
`Proofs of the Subjection of Scotland to the Crowne of England`: a list of events down to 1422.
The manuscript is probably an early 16th-century copy of an older English document.
Records of the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks, Edinburgh branch (to 1946), and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, Edinburgh (St Cuthberts) branch (since 1946).
Records of the service of the Home Guard (formerly Local Defence Volunteers).
The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.
Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.
‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).
“Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus considerable dans les mouvemens de citoyens et bourgeois de Geneve l’anneé 1707 par Michel Covelle Regent de la neuviéme classe.”
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Revised draft of Morley Jamieson, "Tam in a Dark Place: a Dramatic Monologue" (1984).
With corrected typescript of E J Kingston-McCloughry, "Leadership in World War II; Decisions and Undercurrents" (1963).
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
‘Royall genealogie of the Antient High Borne, and most famous Kings of Scotland, which was formerly called Albion, their descendance and Successione’, written by Frederick Van Bossen, a Dane, and dedicated to the Officers of the State and others.
Volume titled ‘Van Bossen’s genealogie’. The pedigree commences with Gathelus, and comes down to the birth of James, son to King James II, giving some of the chief cadent families of Stewart at the end.
"Scotland's Record": audio recordings concerning Scotland`s social and industrial history in the 20th century.
A collection of sound recordings of interviews with people from across the spectrum of Scottish life. The interviews reflect themes includng political administration, industry, crofting and fishing, health, science, transport and social history.
Scottish chartularies and other works transcribed for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane by his earlier copyist in 1742 and 1746.
Scottish Life Archive Oral History Collection, National Museums Scotland (NMS).
Seven volumes of ‘Tales of my grandfather’ by Sir Walter Scott.
‘Short Account of the Familie of Birnie of that Ilk ... as also of The Hamiltons of Broomhill . . . conforme to The papers, and other wrytts . . . now in the Charter Chest at Broomhill ; with ane full account of the papers themselves . . . from anno 1473 ... By me Jo: Birnie.'
The label gives the final date as 1729, but a charter of 1730 is mentioned. The author left his work uncompleted.
Short annal by Sir James Balfour of the reigns and lives of James I and James II of Scotland, dedicated to the Lords of State and Parliament.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.7.36.