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Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.5
Scope and Contents The manuscripts were sent to Ewen MacLachlan by the Highland Society of Scotland in 1812. Dated passim. MacLachlan generally called the volume ‘An Leabhar Caol’, but on the title pages added as alternatives ‘An Diabhol Caol’, ‘The Celtic Repository’. Binding inscribed ‘Ancient Celtic Tales’, ‘The Tales of Other Times’.The contents (text) as follows.(i) Contents list. (Page ii.)(ii) Note on 8th-century learning. (Page iii.)(iii)...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

Notes of Dr Alexander Mitchell for a biography of John Gibson Lockhart, taken chiefly from manuscript material in the National Library of Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5210-5265
Scope and Contents

The notes fill fifty-four notebooks (MSS.5210-5263).

MSS.5264-5265 contain miscellaneous correspondence and papers concerning John Gibson Lockhart.

Dates: 1st half of 20th century.

Papers of David Cairns.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9326
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, addresses, and poems, transcripts of diaries and correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986.

Papers of Keith William Murray.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9691
Scope and Contents

Includes genealogical articles, notes, and transcripts, 1892-1909 and undated, concerning the Murray family.

With drafts for the "Scots Peerage" of Sir James Balfour Paul, with letters pasted in, 1902-1917 and undated. Letter writers include:

James Balfour Paul, John Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, J Maitland Thomson and George Cokayne.

Dates: 1892-1917 and undated.