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63 letters and cards of Frances Shand Kydd to William McIlwraith, Ayr.
Includes book and press cutting.
Account book, 1837-1859, of Alexander Gilchrist, kept during service in Britain and at Gibraltar.
With copy of J L Hilson, "Further Yesterdays in a Royal Burgh" (1917), and associated letters of Hilson.
Annotated copy of May Sinclair, "A Defence of Idealism" (1917).
Includes three letters, 1923-1924, of the author to W J Jupp and Jupp`s annotations and presentation note, 1925, to J Ramsay MacDonald.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.
The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Copies of letters of John C Hooper to his parents, during his time in the Boer War.
Copy of James Gillespie, "The Triumph of Philosophy; or, The True System of the Universe" (London, 1893), with associated letter and diagrams, undated, of Gillespie.
Copy of "Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Youngest Sister" (Boston and New York, 1899), with a letter, circa 1837-1838, of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Jenny Hanning and two letters, 1840 and 1842, of Thomas Carlyle to Jenny Hanning.
Copy of Sir Augustus W Franks, "Notes on Bookplates" (1887) with author`s presentation note.
Includes pasted in letter, 1888, of John Lane to Walter Hamilton, with other letters loosely enclosed and pasted in.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning borrowers and a list of defaulters.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
Exercise-book, containing 'Lord John, a Fife Tale', a poem, ?1895, by Thomas Swan, handloom weaver, Leslie, Fife.
Other poems (one of circa 1893) and letters with which Thomas Swan sent them to Professors David Masson and John Chiene, 1895, have been inserted at the beginning.
Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.
Glenquoich Visitors` book, 1846-1863, and twenty-two letters, 1837-1867, to Edward Ellice of Invergarry from various correspondents.
Leaf of a letter of James Elroy Flecker to Trelawney Dayrell Reed.
Containing manuscripts of two Bathrolaire sonnets.
With a copy of "Bridge of Fire" (1907), in which the above sonnets were published.
Ledgers and other papers of Lambert Brothers (Edinburgh) Ltd.
Letter, 1884, of Robert Louis Stevenson to Horace Dobell, with two letters, 1879, of Thomas Watson to Dobell.
The letters are tipped-in to Horace Dobell`s annotated copy of his work `On Loss of Weight, Blood-Spitting and Lung Disease` (London, 1880).