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Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.115- is now Acc.4642.
Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

‘Papers read at the Meetings of the Knights of the Round Table during the summer of A.D.1842.’

 File
Identifier: MS.537
Scope and Contents

According to an entry in an old sale-catalogue pasted on the inside cover, “These literary efforts .. . were the work of the Members of a small Edinburgh Literary and Social Club, consisting of Law Students, who, as the Knights of the Round Table, met in Bourgeois’ Tavern, Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh".

Dates: 1842.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

Personal papers of William Crosbie.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13367
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1933-1972, of the artist William Crosbie (1915-1999), with related printed material, circa 1943-1990. This small collection of material was apparently cleared from his studio at 12 Ruskin Lane, Glasgow, many years after his death.

Dates: 1933-1972.

Photocopies of a letter, 1870, of R W Emerson to the President of Harvard.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7928
Scope and Contents

Concerning Thomas Carlyle`s intended bequest of books to Harvard College.

With a catalogue, undated, of the library in the Land of Mary Aitken.

Dates: 1870 and undated.

Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50273-50276
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Scots in Jamaica, including letters of the Earl of Balcarres, the Fyffe family and other Scots in Jamaica.

Typewritten lists concenring materials of Scottish interest in the National Library of Jamaica, formerly the West India Reference Library.

Typewritten list of Scottish place names in Jamaica.

Dates: 1699; 1735-1846.

Photographs and typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson for the centenary edition of Scott's letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.1846
Scope and Contents

Some of the letters have not been printed.

At the end are catalogues of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and other correspondents, 1927, and to his brother Thomas and the latter's wife, undated.

Dates: 1796-1828, 1927, undated.

"Press Catalogue [of] Tyninghame Library Alphabetically Arranged".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9677
Scope and Contents

Paper watermarked 1820.

Dates: circa 1820.

Printed catalogue, [?1814], of Kelso Library with manuscript additions to 1826.

 File
Identifier: MS.14241
Scope and Contents

A list of the proprietors of the Library in February 1827 has been added (folio 1).

Dates: [?1814]-1827.

Printed catalogue of books in the Law Room in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.181
Scope and Contents

The volume is updated in manuscript to 1930.

Dates: 1882.

`Recherches sur l`origine des théatres, sur l`invention de l’imprimerie, leurs perfections and accroissement. Par Mr Chardin de la Chardiniere. A Paris, 1779`.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.13
Scope and Contents

The manuscript appears to be the introduction to a bookseller`s catalogue (not, however, that of Charles Chardin, ‘Catalogue des livres rares et singuliers du cabinet de M. Filhal’, Paris, 1779).

A calligraphic copy, with the colophon: `Exaravit Calamo Franciscus Florentius Fyot. Anno Domini MDCCLXXIX.`

Dates: 1779.

Sale catalogues of books and transcripts of letters of Scottish interest in the Caligula section of the Cotton Library.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.12
Scope and Contents On folio i is written `No. 14 of Mr. Matthew Crawfurd`s printed Catalogue of Manuscripts. in fol.`, which appears to be intended as a title for the volume, although it does not correspond to the contents. On the same folio the letter `B` and the signature `John Wright` appear twice. All of these are in eighteenth-century hands. Section (iii) is the earliest, and the volume must have been later adapted by the writers of sectitons (i) and (ii).Section (i): Sale-catalogue of books,...
Dates: Late 16th century-early 18th century.

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Angus. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. Unitary authority. Longitude: -2.9167. Latitude: 56.6667. 1
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Frascati. Europe - Italy - Lazio - Roma. Inhabited place. Longitude: 12.6833. Latitude: 41.8000. 1
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Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Gordon, family, of Halmyre and Gordonstoun 2
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston 2
Aitken, Mary Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist, fl 1877-1932 1
Anderson, James, Minister of Torphins, 1844-1883 1
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Banchory House Library 1
Bliss, Douglas Percy, 1900-1984 (painter, wood engraver, scholar, and writer of belles lettres) 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Brodie, William, of Brodie, fl 1800-1850 1
Byrne, John (Scottish playwright and artist) 1
Cadell, Francis Campbell Boileau, artist, 1883-1937 1
Cameron, Charles, architect, 1745-1812 1
Campbell, Alasdair, of Kilmartin, d 1901 1
Campbell, William Kilpatrick, director, Mainstream Publishing, b. 1951. 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Chalmers, Aimee (writer.) 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Chisholm, Erik William, composer, 1904-1965 1
Chisholm, Morag, daughter of Erik William, composer, fl 1998 1
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 1
Church of Scotland, Saltoun Church 1
Clan Mackay Society 1
Crosbie, William, artist, 1915-1999 1
Dean Park Parish Church, Guild Library, Glasgow 1
Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, auctioneers 1
Eardley, Joan Kathleen Harding, painter, 1921-1963 1
Educational Institue of Scotland, Henderson Memorial Library of Books on America 1
Eliot, Charles William, President of Harvard University, 1834-1926: recipient 1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, essayist, 1803-1882 1
Episcopal Theological College, Edinburgh 1
Erskine, Robert, physician to Czar Peter the Great, 1677-1720 1
Erskine, Thomas Alexander, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer, 1732-1781 1
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 1
Fergusson, John Duncan, artist, 1874-1961 1
Flint, Sir William Russell, Knight, artist, 1880-1969 1
Forbes, William, Sir, 7th Baronet (banker) 1
Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch 1
Geekie, Alexander, London, surgeon, d 1727 1
Gilmour, John (cinema manager) 1
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 1
Irvine, James (art dealer) 1
John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 1
John Smith and Son (Glasgow, bookseller) 1
Johnson, David Charles, musician, 1942-2009 1
Leadhills Miners' Library, subscription library 1
Lillie, Robert Alexander, art collector, fl 1907-1977 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Low, Bet, artist, 1924-2007 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933. 1
MacKenzie, Peter, director, Mainstream Publishing, fl. 1970-2015 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackie, David, Professor of History and Western Art at Savannah College , fl 1993-2005 1
Mainstream Publishing 1
Martin, J Ronald, compiler of catalogue of the Telford Library, Langholm, fl 1969 1
McBey, James, painter and etcher, 1883-1959 1
McCall, Charles, painter, 1907-1989 1
McIsaac, Nigel, artist, 1911-1995 1
Morris, Margaret Eleanor, teacher of dance, 1891-1980 1
Morrison, Hew, 1850-1935 (Librarian, Edinburgh Public Library, Gaelic scholar) 1
Murray, William, of Touchadam and Polmaise, d 1758 1
New Club, Edinburgh 1
Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo Luigi, Knight, sculptor and printmaker, 1924-2005 1
Peploe, Samuel John, painter, 1871-1935 1
Pitcairne, Archibald, physician and poet, 1652-1713 1
Raeburn, Sir Henry, Knight, painter, 1756-1823 1
Ramsay, John, of Ochtertyre, Advocate, 1736-1814 1
Rankin, Robert, Minister of Lamington, b 1838 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Reformed Presbyterian Synod, Library 1
Salisbury, Bishop of 1
Sauchie School, library 1
Scottish Arts Council, public body 1
Shepherd, Alfred, Writer to the Signet, 1857-1940 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Skene, Alexander, book collector, d c 1707 1
Speirs, Alexander, of Elderslie, merchant, 1714-1782 1
Stewart, Daniel, of the Exchequer, d 1814 1
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 1
Stothard, Thomas, artist, 1755-1834 1
Stuart, Henry Benedict Maria Clement, cardinal and Jacobite claimant to the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones, 1725-1807 1
Telford Library, Langholm 1
Thomson, James Booth, d. 1913 (Deputy Librarian, Aberdeen Public Library) 1
William Brown, booksellers 1
Wilson, George Renfrew, engineer, b ?1900 1
Wingate, Sir James Lawton, Knight, painter, 1846-1924 1
Women for Independence North-East Fife. (Local independence campaign organisation, Scotland.) 1
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