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Walter Macfarlane’s annotated copy of George Crawfurd’s ‘The peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1716).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.21
Dates:
[1716, or after.]
Walter Scott, "Extempore poetical dialogue betwixt two Edinburgh shopkeepers".
Item
Identifier: Acc.1672- is now MS.3653, f.175.
Dates:
1822.
Walter Scott manuscripts from the Pforzheimer Library, New York, known as the Pforzheimer MSS.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9148- is now MSS.23042-23052
Dates:
Undated
Walter Scott, "Tales of Grandfather", including marginal corrections by Scott.
File
Identifier: Acc.1931- is now MSS.3571-3573.
Dates:
1828.
Walter Scott, "The Pirate", printed volumes with annotations.
File
Identifier: Acc.2208- is now MSS.5023-5024.
Dates:
1822.
Walter Scott`s interleaved set of the Waveley Novels in 41 volumes, known as the "Magnum Opus".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9147- is now MSS.23001-23041
Dates:
Undated
Waltz, 1830, composed by John Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6292
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1834, of John Thomson, Minister of Duddingston.
Dates:
1830, 1834.
War correspondence between Lawrence Burness and his parents.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9088
Scope and Contents
Includes extracts of letters, parted into three volumes, and photographs, 1942, of people and places mainly in Burma.
Dates:
1940-1947.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12181
Scope and Contents
Accession includes:
1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,
2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,
3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.
Dates:
1943-1948.
War diary of Alexander Avon Barnet entitled "The Sailor`s Way" and "Mediterranean Way".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8970
Dates:
1944-1945.
War diary of Lance-Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
File
Identifier: Acc.377- is now MSS.944-947.
Dates:
1915-1916.
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front.
Series
Identifier: MSS.944-947
Dates:
1915-1916.
War diary of Major Alastair I Macdougall.
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Identifier: Acc.10430
Scope and Contents
Records Macdougall`s service on the Western Front with the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, later on the General Staff of the 21st Division.
Dates:
1914-1918.
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13336
Scope and Contents
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers, 1939-1947. Memoirs, dictated February 2012, of Lieutenant Colonel Brian D. Mackenzie, describing his service with 202 Field Company, Royal Engineers, during the Second World War. Originally a Manchester Territorial Army Unit, 202 Field Company changed in June 1940 to 52nd (Lowland) Division. Mackenzie joined the company in 1943, whilst it was based in Scotland training for mountain warfare, a role which it was never to...
Dates:
1939-1968.
"War Work", a collection of manuscript poems of Gavin Ewart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10527
Dates:
1939-1942.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
Item
Identifier: MS.3658
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Dates:
1666-1699.
"Warnings of the Camisars" being copies of sermons preached by Thomas Dutton, James Cuninghame of Barns, and other Quietists, in Edinburgh and elsewhere.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8592
Dates:
1707-1711.
Warrant, 1641, to Sir David Cunningham (possibly 1st Baronet, of Auchinhervie), signed by the 1st Duke of Hamilton and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.8958
Scope and Contents
With:
two letters, 1653, of Robert Lilburne
four letters, 1659, of General George Monck.
Dates:
1641-1659.
Warrant appointing George Handasyde Pattison as Sheriff of Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6115
Dates:
1868.
Warrant by Barbara Porterfield, daughter of the late Walter Porterfield of Comiston, Advocate, to Patrick Scott, Writer in Edinburgh, to receive the 35/- Sterling granted her by the Faculty of Advocates.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.232
Dates:
1728.
Warrant for collecting of Salt Tax in favour of Robert Anderson
Item
Identifier: Acc.13343
Dates:
1791
Warrant of commitment, concerning Grange Coal Company.
Item
Identifier: Acc.1876- is now MS.7651(iii).
Dates:
1796.
Warrant, signed by Queen Victoria.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5922
Scope and Contents
Granting Civil List pension to James Browne.
Dates:
1840.
Warrant, subscribed by George IV [sic] in favour of George Home and Walter Scott as Principal Clerk of Session.
Item
Identifier: Acc.112- is now Ch.60.
Dates:
8 February 1806.