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Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert, mostly from the publisher John Murray.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13507
Scope and Contents
Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The bulk of the collection comes from the publisher John Murray and relates to its authors.The contents are as follows:Letter of Lord Brougham to John Murray II, regarding Madame de Staël, circa 1817.Manuscript fragment of Sir Walter Scott's article 'Letters from the Hon. Horace Walpole', 1818.Letter of Lord Byron to John Murray II, Pisa, 3 July 1822....
Dates:
Majority of material found within Circa 1817-1934, 1992, undated.
Autograph letters to Charles Lawson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from eminent persons in professional, civil and commercial life, being replies to invitations and other letters.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.10.1-9
Dates:
1854, 1862-1865, undated.
Bibles and a book of common prayer belonging to the Steuart family, with manuscript notes.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3642
Dates:
1726-[after 1849].
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
File
Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Dates:
1923-1929.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volumes i-iii, v, and ix (ii and ix being of the second edition), by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3358-3362
Scope and Contents
The corrections, which are numerous in volumes i and ii, less numerous in volumes iii, and few in volumes v and ix, are apparently different from those in the interleaved volumes that were used for the preparation of the Miscellaneous Prose Works edition of the ‘Life’ (see prefatory Advertisement thereto).
Dates:
1827.