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'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3865
Scope and Contents The manuscript was probably written in or shortly after 1755, a date which occurs on page 31.The original work has not been traced; it may or may not have been printed. It was divided into at least twelve sections, and should be identifiable from many references to its pages in the present manuscript, for example: page 86, Lovat's escape from Inverness; pages 15, 153, the meeting of Jacobite leaders at Muirlaggan in May, 1746; pages 165, 246, Murray of Broughton's capture and...
Dates: [1755, or after.]

Administrative records of the Bible Board for Scotland.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11182/1-41
Scope and Contents In the early 19th century there was much public complaint about the cost and quality of Bibles produced on both sides of the Border where the respective King's printers enjoyed monopoly rights to the printing of acts of Parliament, proclamations, the Authorised Version of the Bible, the metrical psalms, catechism, etc (in England the universities of Oxford and Cambridge also had the Bible printing privilige). When the existing Scottish patent expired in 1839, new letters patent were issued...
Dates: 1832-1981.

`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates: Circa 1682-1706, and undated.

Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.

 File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates: 1696-1891, undated.

Antiquarian collections of W T Johnston.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11781
Scope and Contents

Includes transcripts of letters and papers of eminent Scotsmen and other material relating to them. Files organised by subject.

Dates: Late 20th 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.

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.5.1.16-5.1.21
Scope and Contents

The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.

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.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates: 1537-1606.

Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.13
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Extracts, 1797, in the hand of the chief clerk, Robert Lemon, from the `Rotuli Scotiae` kept in the Tower of London (cf. folio 282). The extracts relate to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. The manuscripts were published, in two volumes, in 1814 and 1819. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies by Hutton of charters of Newbattle Abbey (folio 32). The source is unidentified: they are in a different order from those of the cartulary...
Dates: ?1789-?1797.

Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates: 16th century-1793.

'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.

 File
Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents

The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).

Dates: 1559-1618.

Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates: 1726.

Corrections and additions by the first Earl of Cromer in an advance proof of a speech he afterwards delivered on Free Trade and Protection to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Unionist Free Trade Club on 10 January 1908.

 File
Identifier: MS.2250
Scope and Contents

Also included are three letters to the donor, James MacLehose, the Glasgow printer (including one from Lord Cromer accompanying the corrected proof), the final printed copy of the speech and the menu and toast list of the luncheon at which the speech was delivered.

Dates: [1908, or before.]

Correspondence and papers concerning the Chelsea Reel Club, kept by Hugh Rose Foss.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14532
Content Description

Correspondence, membership and guest lists, ball programmes, dance cards and notebooks, 1934-ca. 1992, concerning the running of the Chelsea Reel Club and its regular dances and balls.

The archive was maintained by Hugh Rose Foss, better known for his war-time career as a code breaker. The Club was founded by friends of Foss's wife in 1935. Foss initially acted as Vice-Chairman, and became Chairman in 1938.

Dates: 1934-1992

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).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14842-14847
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1792-mid 20th century.

Correspondence and papers of Cecil Hopkinson, containing bibliographies relating to Louis-Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi, and other related material.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9732/1-54
Scope and Contents

Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.

Dates: 1947-1975 and undated.

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Lists. 133
Letters. Correspondence. 108
Correspondence. 68
Notes. 50
Copies. Derivative objects. 39
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Manuscripts. 36
Poetry. 26
Minutes. Administrative records. 23
Accounts. 21
Drafts. Documents. 20
Reports. 19
Financial records. 16
Photographs. 16
Speeches. Documents. 15
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 14
Registers (lists). 14
Excerpts. 13
Histories. 13
Memorandums. 13
Microfilms. 13
Printed materials. Object genre. 12
Registers (lists) 12
Inventories. 11
Legal documents. 11
Notebooks. 11
Typescripts. 11
Account books. 10
Documents. 10
Genealogies. 10
Catalogues. 9
Subscription lists. 9
Petitions. 8
Transcripts 8
Administrative records. 7
Charters 7
Declarations. 7
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 7
Membership lists. 7
Receipts. Financial records. 7
Translations. Documents. 7
Diaries. 6
Instructions. Document genre. 6
Memorials. Legal documents. 6
Minute books. 6
Photocopies. 6
Transcripts. 6
Biographies. 5
Indexes. Reference sources. 5
Lectures. 5
Orders. Records (documents). 5
Reports 5
Sermons 5
Songs. Musical compositions. 5
Abstracts. Summaries. 4
Fragments. 4
Invoices. 4
Letter books. 4
Programmes 4
Publications. 4
Sketches 4
Warrants. Permissions. 4
Autobiographies. 3
Charters. 3
Commissions. Permissions. 3
Deeds. Legal documents. 3
Discharges. Legal Documents. 3
Extracts. 3
Ledgers. Account books. 3
Memoirs. 3
Memorandums. Legal documents. 3
Menus. 3
Minutes. Legal documents. 3
Portraits. 3
Postcards. 3
Proclamations 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Prospectuses 3
Receipts. Financial records 3
Sketches. 3
Summaries. 3
Testimonials. 3
Treatises. 3
Wills. 3
Abridgements. Versions of documents. 2
Agreements. Legal instruments. 2
Articles. 2
Bankbooks. 2
Bibliographies. 2
Book industries and trade 2
Bulls. Papal records. 2
Business records. 2
Calculations. 2
Caricatures. 2
Charges. Legal instruments. 2
Coats of arms. devices (symbols). 2
Constitutions. Legal documents. 2
Contracts. Agreements. 2
Decisions. Judicial records. 2
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Language
English 89
Undetermined 72
Latin 7
Multiple languages 6
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
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Names
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Aitken, Jane Carlyle, sister of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, née Carlyle, 1810-1888 1
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Foundry Section, 1971-1992 1
Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers, 1946-1971 1
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Anderson, David, Staff Surgeon, ? 1821-1854 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 1
Beecher, Charles (minister, composer and author) 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Berlioz, Louis-Hector, composer, 1803-1869 1
Bible Board, Scotland, HM Sole and Only Master Printers 1
Birkbeck, John Addison, printer and bibliographer, d 1971 1
Braidwood, James, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1834-1875 1
Brodie, William, sculptor, 1815-1881: recipient 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Campbell, Archibald, Bishop of Aberdeen, d 1744 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885 1
Caskie, Donald Currie, Minister of the Scots Kirk, Paris, 1902-1983 1
Central Ironmoulders' Association of Scotland, 1889-1926 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Chelsea Reel Club 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland Overseas, Continent of Europe - France - Paris 1
Church of Scotland, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly 1
Church of Scotland, Overseas Department 1
Church of Scotland, World Mission and Unity Department 1
Clark, Robert (printer, Edinburgh) 1
Conference of Scottish Medieval Historical Research 1
Conference of Scottish Medievalists 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1
Dares Phrygius 1
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Donn, Rob, poet, 1714-1778 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Dundee Courier and Argus Chapel 1
Dundee Typographical Society 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
Edinburgh International Festival Society 1
Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps 1
Educational Institue of Scotland, Henderson Memorial Library of Books on America 1
Edwards, Joseph, Editor of "Labour Annual", fl 1893-1904: recipient 1
Fabian Society, think-tank 1
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 1
Family Care, voluntary social work agency 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Foss, Hugh Rose, 1902-1971 1
Fox, Colin, b. 1969 (politician) 1
Fraser, Edward, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry, fl 1855-1860 1
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bishop of St Asaph and chronicler) 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Hassall, Joan, artist and wood-engraver, 1906-1988 1
Henderson, R R Gore-Brown-, Balerno, fl 1967: collector 1
Herdman, Robert Duddingstone, painter, 1863-1922 1
Herdman, Robert, painter, 1828-1888 1
Hopkinson, Cecil, music bibliographer and bookseller, 1898-1977 1
Innes, Cosmo, antiquary, 1798-1874 1
Ironfounding Workers' Association, 1926-1946 1
Jarvie, Gordon, writer and editor, b.1941. 1
Johnston, William Thompson, antiquarian, b 1934 1
Library and Information Services Council (Scotland) (LISC(S)) 1
Lillie, Robert Alexander, art collector, fl 1907-1977 1
Lindesay, Robert, of Pitscottie, historian, c 1532-c 1586 1
Linlinlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt 1
Lockhart, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce, Knight, diplomatist, 1887-1970 1
MacNicol, Donald, Minister of Lismore, 1735-1802 1
MacNicol, Dugald, army officer, son of Rev. Donald MacNicol 1
Mackinnon, John, Sergeant, 93rd Highlanders, fl 1807-1849 1
Mackinnon, Roderick, Lieutenant, North Carolina Highlanders, d c 1807 1
Marine Temperance Society of New York 1
Mark and Charles Kerr, King's Printers for Scotland 1
McGregor, family 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Mossman, Robert Cockburn, meteorologist, 1870-1940 1
Mundell, family 1
Munro, Neil, author, pseudonym Hugh Foulis, 1864-1930 1
Napier, G W, correspondent of James Braidwood, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1875: recipient 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Library of Scotland 1
National Union of Foundry Workers, 1920-1946 1
Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 1
New Club, North Berwick, golf club 1
North Berwick Golf Club 1
Parker, Agnes Miller, wood engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980 1
Peter Lawson and Son, Edinburgh, seed merchants 1
Pseudo-Aristotle 1
Rasdall, Ernest, correspondent of Agnes Miller Parker, wood engraver and book illustrator, fl 1961-1962: recipient 1
Richmond, Sir John Ritchie, Knight, Honorary President of Glasgow School of Art, 1869-1963 1
Royal Celtic Society 1
Royal Highland Yacht Club, 1881- 1
Royal Naval Review, 1887, Spithead 1
Royal Society of Edinburgh 1
Ruddiman, Thomas, Librarian of the Advocates' Library, 1674-1757 1
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 1
Salisbury, Bishop of 1
Scottish Episcopal Church 1
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