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11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8951
Scope and Contents

With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.

Dates: 1921, 1965-1983

13 letters to Robert Bruce.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8587
Scope and Contents

Concerning political and personal matters. Correspondents include Sir Alexander Gray and Sir Stafford Cripps.

With associated testimonials and copies of four letters of Bruce.

Dates: 1933-1940.

17 letters of Neil Gunn to Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5813
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter, 1944, of Naomi Mitchison to Neil Gunn, and one other letter, undated, of Mitchison to an unknown recipient.

Dates: 1942-1971.

20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11318
Scope and Contents

Includes:

copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson

copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray

correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.

Dates: 1989-1996.

31 letters, 1822-1836, of Sir David Wilkie to Sir James Willoughby Gordon.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7901
Scope and Contents

Mostly on artistic matters.

With copies of three letters, 1828-1839, of Gordon to Wilkie, and an associated memorandum.

Dates: 1822-1839.

39 letters of Gavin Ewart to Philip Larkin.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10877
Scope and Contents

On literary and personal matters. With a copy of letter, 1976, of Larkin to Ewart.

Dates: 1976-1985.

40 letters or copies of letters to, or concerning, Sir James Young Simpson and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5683
Scope and Contents

With copies of three letters, 1866, of Sir James Young Simpson to Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff.

Dates: 1850-1868 and undated.

60 letters to Robert H Lundie and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8673
Scope and Contents

With copy of letter, 1809, of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, enclosing a letter of James Thomson.

Dates: 1809, 1851-1909 and undated.

73 letters to George Bruce from various correspondents, and copies of 18 letters of Bruce.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10998
Scope and Contents

On literary matters.

Dates: 1950, 1965-1988.

95 letters of André Raffalovich to Charles Ballantyne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4630
Scope and Contents

With ten copies of letters, 24 postcards, and two telegrams. Also two letters and a card concerning Raffalovich.

Dates: 1925-1934.

130 Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to James F Hendry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10806
Scope and Contents

Includes related copy letters of Hendry.

Dates: 1945-1985

`A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:` (i.e. Robert Mylne).

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.7
Scope and Contents The title is recorded on folio 1.The volume consists of a copy of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 51) and `Additions` (folio 59 verso) consisting of further summaries of bequests made both before and after the Reformation, down to...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1703.

`A perfyte inventar of all the pious donations gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of king James the first to the reigne of king James the sixt`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.25
Scope and Contents The title is taken from folio 1.The volume consists of a copy in a late seventeenth-century hand of a list of summaries of formal or legal documents relating to bequests of money and property to various religious institutions, from the early fifteenth century (undated, but before 1425) to 1592, followed by summaries of bequests made at various times between 1613 and 1652 (folio 60). The entries do not appear to have been written in any order, although a roughly...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1652.

About 3400 letters and copies of letters of Angus Calder.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11312
Scope and Contents

Letters concern literary, academic and personal matters.

Dates: 1961-1989.

Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11247
Scope and Contents

Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.

Dates: 1885-1886 and undated.

Alchemy: a compilation.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.1
Scope and Contents (i) Medical notes. (Folio 1).(ii) `De Alchemia Dialogi II. Quorum prior, Genuinam librorum Gebri sententiam, de industria ab Authore celatam, et figurato sermone involutam retegit, et certis Argumentis probat. Alter Raimundi Lullij Majoricani, Mysteria in lucem producit. Quibus praemittuntur, propositiones centum viginti novem, idem argumentum compendiosa brevitate complectentes. Norimbergae apud Joan. Petretum. Anno MDXLVIII.’ A copy from the printed work (the first part of...
Dates: 17th century.

Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.20
Scope and Contents The copy is in Nimmo’s own hand, written up in the form of a journal, from the notes which he took in his pocket-book whilst engaged upon the survey. It is written on the rectos of the leaves, the versos being left for maps (folios 11 verso, 12 verso), notes, bearings, and additions to the text. It appears to be incomplete, for it ends rather abruptly (folio 50). It is followed by an explanatory letter to John Rickman, who at the time was secretary to the commissions for making roads and...
Dates: 1806.

Annotated copy of a Scots translation of Boece`s "Scotorum Historiae...".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4491
Scope and Contents

Connected with a projected edition of Lindsay of Pitscottie`s "Chronicles" by George Chambers.

Dates: 19th century.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Apparently unpublished manuscript of `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ by James Thomson of Dundee.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.17
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains:(i) a general topographical description of the area (folio 4);(ii) descriptions of ancient monuments and fortifications found there, including a concise account of the Druids (folio 15);(iii) accounts of excursions made in Perthshire in 1822 (folio 59);(iv) copies of ballads relating to Forfarshire, a translation of a Charter of King John of England to the clergy and people of Arbroath, 1206, and a copy of a reversion of...
Dates: 1825.

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British Broadcasting Corporation 2
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Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 2
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
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Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Macarthur, family, Nairn, Scotland, Manitoba, Canada 2
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Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 2
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 2
Adolphus, John Leycester, barrister and author, 1795-1862: recipient 1
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling, founder of Nova Scotia, c 1577-1640 1
Allen, Gladys Hope, genealogist, b 1875 1
Alpine Club 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Armistead, John, commentator on occupation of Newcastle by Scottish army, fl 1641 1
Armstrong, Robert B, antiquary, fl 1880 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Bain, Margaret I, correspondent of Henry W Meikle, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, fl 1932 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Baird, John Lawrence, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, 1874-1941 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour (statesman) 1
Ball, Sir Alexander John, Baronet, Rear-Admiral, 1756-1809 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
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Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
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Barnett, David, Curator of Lady Stair's House Museum, Edinburgh, fl 1918-1936 1
Barnwell, Henry Thomas, Professor of French Language and Literature, b 1920 1
Beattie, George, poet, 1786-1823 1
Bell, Alexander Graham, inventor of the telephone, 1847-1922 1
Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 1
Bell, William, great grand-nephew of Henry Bell, builder of the "Comet", d 1978 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
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Boece, Hector, historian, c 1465-1536 1
Bogie, James, Kirkcaldy, fl 1939-1980 1
Boston, Thomas, divine, the Elder, 1676-1732 1
Boswell, Euphemia, wife of Alexander, Lord Auchinleck, née Erskine, 1718-1766 1
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Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan, barrister, 1818-1905: recipient 1
Brecht, Eugen Berthold Friedrich, playwright, 1898-1956 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, Home Service, public service broadcaster 1
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British Order of Ancient Free Gardeners, fraternal society 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (statesman, Lord Chancellor) (1778-1868) 1
Brown, Iain Gordon, Principal Curator of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, b 1950 1
Brown, T Gordon, correspondent of Michael Roberts, poet and mountaineer, fl 1946 1
Brown, William Alexander, military adventurer, 1922-1984 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Bruce, Robert, Cape May, New Jersey, fl 1933-1983 1
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Burgess, Alexander, author of "Passport from China", fl 1900-1956 1
Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817 1
Cadell and Davies, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 1
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Campbell, George William, 6th Duke of Argyll, 1768-1839 1
Campbell, Jean Davidson, missionary in India, fl 1900-1940 1
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Carey, William (Baptist missionary in India) 1
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Chapman, Sir Stephen Remnant, Knight, Colonel-Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1776-1851: recipient 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Charlton, Bruce G, Professor of Theoretical Medicine, University of Buckingham, fl 1982-2000 1
Clerk, Sir John, 2nd Baronet, of Penicuik, 1676-1755 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis, Knight, Admiral, 1758-1832: recipient 1
Cochrane, Jane, wife of Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, née Stuart, d 1808 1
Cockburn, John M, Sergeant, 23rd London Regiment, fl 1915 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Combe, George (Writer to the Signet, phrenologist) 1
Combe, George, Writer to the Signet, phrenologist, 1788-1858 1
Connel, John, emigrant to Quebec, fl 1845-1860 1
Cormack, William S, Principal, Stow College School of Engineering, Glasgow, fl 1945 1
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