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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

‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3923
Scope and Contents The blank pages are filled with: (i) copies, made in 1763, of the sets of signatures for seven years from 1745 to 1758; (ii) original signatures, and the names of those who could not write, for 1769, 1776, and 1781. A Communion Roll of the United Presbyterian Congregation at Muckhart, 1886, is inserted at folio 29.There are on the fly-leaf a modern inscription in shorthand, with the name James Duncan (possibly a relative of the United Presbyterian Church Presbytery Clerk whose...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1745-1781, 1886.

‘Collection of epitaphs and inscriptions out of the counties of Hampshire (Isle of Wight), Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, as copied literally from tomb & other stones by Russell Skinner'.

 File
Identifier: MS.3000
Scope and Contents

Only Hertfordshire inscriptions are given, but the index of first lines (folio i) refers to those in other counties.

Dates: 19th century.

Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions, photographs, lists of contents, and indexes, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2238-2244
Scope and Contents

John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).

Dates: 1915-1919.

Copy, dated 1800, of ‘The Historie and Life of King James the Sext’, attributed to John Colville.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.17
Scope and Contents

An inscription by Malcolm Laing appears on folio 181, dated 15 July, 1800.

Dates: 17th century.

Copy of part of Stair's 'Institutions of the Law of Scotland', being Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5058
Scope and Contents

Contains Titles 1-22 with Title 19 omitted.

Dates: 1666.

Notebook in several hands containing culinary, household and medical recipes.

 Item
Identifier: MS.24775
Scope and Contents

The volume is inscribed at folio 1 'Pastry Book Elgin 20th August 1734' and at folio 15 'Jean Robinson 23rd January 1749/50'. Later entries are largely copied from newspapers and magazines, particulary 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant' and 'The Edinburgh Advertiser'

Dates: 1734-1802, undated.

Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.

 File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates: 18th century.

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.