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18th-century extracts from the manuscript of Bernardino Baldi, containing chronicles of Urbino, Pesaro, etc.
A collection of formal documents relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire.
A collection of five formal documents, 1544-1607, relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire (Ch.8486-8490), together with an extract, 1711, of an acknowledgement of payment, 1710, by Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (Ch.8491), and a burgess ticket of Campbeltown, 1764, granted to John Walker, botanist (Ch.8492). An inventory is available.
Annotated copy of Archibald Stalker, "Conversation with Himself".
Comprising extracts from his diary for 1957-1969.
Annotated proofs of extracts from reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
Biography of James Bonar, compiled by his son.
Mostly comprising extracts from Bonar`s diary and correspondence.
Carbon copy typescript of chapters 1-5 of a biography of Robert B Cunninghame Grahame by Herbert Faulkner West.
Copy extracts from inquisitions to substantiate pedigree of Sir John Lowther Johnstone.
Copy of a report, 1786, to Cardinal Giovanni Archinto concerning the supply of priests in Scotland.
With extract of letter, 1784, from bishops [? George] Hay, Alexander MacDonald and [John?] Geddes to Leonardo Antonelli.
Copy of an extract of an opera of Simone Mayr, "Ginevra di Scozia".
Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Descriptions of the shires of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald, interleaved with the Scottish section (colls. 877-960) of Edmund Gibson`s edition of William Camden`s ‘Britannia’ in English.
Edinburgh (High Street) charters, and miscellany.
Comprised of:
Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;
Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.
An inventory is available.
Edited extracts from the journals of Murdoch MacDonald, compiled by Donald John MacDonald.
Extract, 1557, from the Protocol Book of Henry Strachan, of a cognition and sasine, 1515, in favour of Andrew Allan, in a tenement on the south side of the High Street, Edinburgh.
Extracts by William Bell Scott from the correspondence, journals, and memorandums of David Scott.
Extracts of a lecture on "The Christie Family in Norway" given to the Montrose Society by Dr Gunnar Christie Wasberg.
Formal documents from the papers of the Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, politican.
Fragment of an extract of a charter concerning the subjects in Kincardineshire previously belonging to the Carmelite Friars of Inverbervie
Manuscript extract of Ivor Brown, "Summer in Scotland".
Mimeographed extracts from the "Alexander Graham Bell Home Notes", a household journal.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.
An inventory is available.
Notebooks of John Duncan, containing notes and extracts from published works on artists, art techniques and related subjects.
Papers concerning Peebleshire.
Including typescript extracts from a diary, and church records.