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Two copies, early 17th century, of ‘Historie and Chronicles of Scotland’ by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie, written circa 1565.
Two manuscripts concerning the history of Geneva by Jacob de Chapeaurouge.
Two printed books of Peter Cunningham, and a printed book of Allan Cunningham, all with corrections and insertions by Peter Cunningham.
Peter Cunningham was born at Pimlico in 1816, the third son of Allan Cunningham. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and in 1834 obtained a position in the audit office, from which he retired in 1860. He published many works including 'Handbook of Westminster Abbey' (1842); 'Handbook of London' (1849); 'Story of Nell Gwyn' (1852). He also contributed to various periodicals including the 'Illustrated London News' and "Gentleman's Magazine". Cunningham died in 1869.
Typescript and revised typescript of, and readers` reports on, "The Kingship of the Scots: 842-1292" (2002), by A A M Duncan.
Typescript copy of an unpublished history of Broughton Secondary School, Edinburgh, by John G Sinclair.
Typescript copy of H R Kelham, "The 1st Battalion the Highland Light Infantry in South Africa. 1899-1901".
Typescript copy of historical writings of George Dott, principally about the Scottish coal, mineral and railway industries, and marine and maritime matters; with a copy of 'A Scottish Earl Chemist: The First Discovery of Gas' (1902), by J Wilson Dougal, re-printed from the West Lothian Courier.
The volume also contains copies of the published versions of some of the typescripts, and of some material not present in typescript form.
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
Typescript copy of "The Ladies Quarter".
Concerning Leitholm and its surroundings.
Typescript description, 1952, of the parish of Kidalton, Islay, by Alexander and Islay D Shanks, later published in the "Third Statistical Account of Argyll".
Typescript history, 1972, of Port Ellen school, Islay, by Peggy Earle, pupil and teacher at the school.
Typescript drafts, both much corrected and added to, with parts of a third, of a history of the lower Niger in the nineteenth century; a brief account of the administrations is followed by a detailed postal history.
The authors appear from internal evidence to be William W Forsyth and H G Porter, the date of composition the late 1930s.
Typescript history of Cumbernauld by the Reverend John Ogilvie.
With a scrapbook, circa 1940, containing press cuttings of articles of Ogilvie.
Typescript history of the Lovat Scouts in the Great War.
Typescript local history of Anne Gordon, "Nigg: a Changing Parish".
Typescript notes compiled by James Steuart.
Concerning the Steuart family and on the history of the legal firm, J C and A Steuart.
Typescript of an extended essay of James Bruce on the history of Highland roads and bridges.
Typescript of an unpublished literary and cultural history of Edinburgh in the age of enlightenment by Agnes M Macdonald.
Typescript of C G Macdowall, "The Chanonry of Ross, Being Studies in the History of Fortrose and Rosemarkie and the Cathedral Kirk of Ross".
Typescript of 'Edinburgh Theatres, Cinemas and Circuses, 1820-1963' by George Baird, with index.
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.