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Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.
Commonplace book.
Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.
The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
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 Robina Chisholm, containing newspaper cuttings and transcripts of poems, chiefly of her brother Walter (1856-1877), a Berwickshire shepherd.
Commonplace book of Sir James Balfour titled ‘Some short memories and remarkable passages for the yeires of God 1653 & 1654’.
The manuscript is not printed in James Balfour’s historical works, as it was missing at the time when they were published.
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.
Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.