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William Bradford`s photographs of Greenland, arranged as illustrations of `Frost and Fire`, 1863, by J F Campbell, June 1871.
Item
Identifier: Acc.1289- is now MSS.2993-2994.
Dates:
June 1871.
William Cross[e], "Civilizing the Highlands".
Item
Identifier: Acc.1927- is now MS.5201.
Dates:
1748.
William Gallacher Memorial Library Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14114
Scope and Contents
The archive includes Gallacher's own personal papers, pamphlets, ephemera, photographs, and personal artifacts, alongside papers concerning the administration of the WGML by librarians Bob Saunders and Audrey Canning.The core of the archive comprises over 60 special collections donated by fellow activists or amassed by WGML librarian Audrey Canning in the course of her work, to facilitate future research and scholarship. These additions were primarily made to the WGML between...
Dates:
1890s-2010s
William Geoff Dickinson, "Borrobil", including typescript.
File
Identifier: Acc.2531- is now MSS.9866-9867.
Dates:
1944.
William Lee Ferguson, "Supplement", concerning appendices to records of the Clan Ferguson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.2059- is now MS.5175.
Dates:
1934.
William Moncreiffe, "The Family of Sir Walter Scott`s brother Tom".
File
Identifier: Acc.2401- is now MS.8481.
Dates:
1838-1861.
William Robertson`s book of tunes for the fiddle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8815- is now MS.21722
Dates:
1811.
William Thomson, "A Journal during a Visit to Paris, and a short Tour through part of Holland".
File
Identifier: Acc.2608- is now MS.6334.
Dates:
1818.
William Tyler. Commission as ensign in the 4th Garrison Battalion.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10651
Dates:
1807.
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
File
Identifier: MS.9808
Scope and Contents
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Dates:
1832-1834.
Wodrow manuscripts, with biographies of ministers, "Wodrow`s Collections".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4277- is now Wodrow Folios XXV-XXVI, XXVIII-XXXI.
Dates:
Undated
Women, education and literature: the papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, part 3, reels 1-4 (Adam Matthew, 2001).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1205-1208
Dates:
1793-1st half of 19th century.
Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4546
Scope and Contents
Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.
Dates:
circa 1900-circa 1914.
Word processed manuscript, 'James Thin booksellers, 1826 to 2002', by Ainslie Thin.
File
Identifier: Acc.14140
Dates:
2019.
Words and music for a song "Lovely Loch Awe" of Thomas A Ewart, Oban.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11925
Dates:
1st half of 20th century
Words and music of lyrics and comic operas by Archibald F Hyslop.
File
Identifier: Acc.9543
Scope and Contents
Many composed for the singer and comedian Harry Gordon, with correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1935-1960.
Work-book of John Shirley, Solicitor, containing his fair copy, written out in full, of his ‘History of Scottish Law’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.4
Dates:
1898, or after.
Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.14
Scope and Contents
Although the author details the circumstances in which he began, lost, rewrote and revised his criticisms and had them bound, a period ranging from 1643 to 1679, his name nowhere appears; but he has been identified as the soldier and author Sir James Turner.The criticisms are followed (folio 64) by two satirical writings by Turner purporting to be a letter of Don Francesco Gomez de Quevedo Villegas with the impossible date of 1506, and a letter, 1582, of ‘Philander of Sitwald’....
Dates:
1643-1679.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.