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Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.
With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.
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).
Copy of "The Endurance Diary of Harry McNeish", carpenter with Ernest Shackleton`s 1914-1916 Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition.
Transcribed by Shane Murphy from a microfilm in the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Includes copy of "The Diary of Thomas H Orde-Lees`s Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition, 1914-1916" being notes made by Margot Murrell, 1997.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence and papers of Priscilla, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, and some papers of John, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1945-1978; with a speech, 1935, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Baron Lynedoch, and of the Honourable Mary Cathcart, afterwards Mrs Graham, his wife.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Correspondence of Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Baron Murray of Elibank and correspondence and papers of his brother, Arthur Cecil Murray, Viscount Elibank.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Diaries and other papers of W M Docharty.
Concerning his mountaineering expeditions in the British Isles, the Alps and Canada.
Diary, 1745-1746, of a clerk in the leadmines at Leadhills, with unconnected papers.
Includes:
notes, 18th century, on optics
farm accounts, 1822-1830 and 1843-1859, of Glenholm, Lockerbie
farm accounts, 1818-1829
Diary and notes of Mary Stewart Richardson.
Concerning her nursing service in France.
Diary of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.
Also included are:
(i) Three of John Ballantynes' letters, 1820-1821 (tipped-in at folios 1, 16 and 19);
(ii) Minutes of a meeting, in June 1821, of Ballantynes' trustees (tipped-in at folio 22);
(iii) A letter, 1821, of Ballantynes' brother, James (tipped-in at folio 26).
On the flyleaf is a note concerning the provenance and identity of the volume.
Diary, sermons and notes of a minister in British Guiana.
"Edinburgh Almanack" (1766), with manuscript diary and notes of James Camichael.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Journal, unsigned, but, from internal evidence, of Major Patrick Henderson, 42nd Madras Native Infantry.
The journal includes a description of a journey from India to England through Arabia, Egypt, Italy, and France, from February to August 1836, some notes on the French Army, and an account of Patrick Henderson's experiences in India from July 1839 to June, 1843.
Journals and other papers of David Wilson Bogie.
The papers include a memoir of David Bogie`s time at George Watson`s College, an account of the Law Faculty at Edinburgh University and memorials of: the Faculty of Advocates; the Court of Session in the 1970s, and also of the Shrieval Bench in Aberdeen. The papers are accompanied by notes by Alan Bell, Bogie`s unofficial literary executor.
Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.
Lectures, lecture notes and journals of James Wright and Walter Macleod, ministers of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh.
For James Wright's career, see David Scott, ‘Annals and statistics of the Original Secession Church’ (Edinburgh, 1886), pages 562-563.
Walter Macleod succeeded Wright in the charge of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh on the latter's death in 1879.
Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.
Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.