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Administrative records, reports, general correspondence and papers of the Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.
The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Messrs John Smith and Son of their catalogue "Bibliotheca Scotica".
Correspondence and papers of and concerning F C B Cadell.
Papers concern artistic and personal matters and include letters from Sir William Russell Flint, J Pittendrigh Macillivray and S J Peploe.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Wilkie, Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, together with some sketches and engravings from his paintings.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie.
Correspondence on the Forbes family art collections.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
General catalogue of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Letters and papers concerning the manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Letters and papers of and concerning artists and other notables, collected by Aeneas Mackay.
Correspondents include:
David Y Cameron
Muirhead Bone
James McBey
Letters of John Byrne to Douglas Percy Bliss.
Letters of John D Fergusson to Nigel McIsaac.
With letter of McIsaac concerning Ferguson, letters of Margaret Morris and annotated catalogues of Ferguson`s work.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Microfilm of catalogues of the library of Andrew Fletcher, 1st quarter of 18th century, and part of the library of Saltoun Hall, [after 1716]; and, copies of correspondence, 1821-1826, of the French jurist, Athanase J L Jourdan (1791-1826).
The contents are as follows:
Copies of correspondence, 1821-1826, of Athanase J L Jourdan (Adv.MS.23.3.20);
Alphabetical catalogue, [after 1716], of 'Libri Politici et Iuridici', being part of the library at Saltoun (MS.17862);
Catalogue, early 18th century, of his books by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, the Patriot (MS.17863).