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Annotated printed reports on the proposed scheme to provide for the widows of members of the Faculty of Advocates.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.
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.
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`.
Copy, apparently the licence copy, of the play 'The fair Quaker' by Edward Thompson.
The volume is made up of pages from a copy of the 1769 edition of ‘The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, the Humours of the Navy’ by Charles Shadwell (originally published in 1710), bearing numerous small textual alterations and deletions, and leaves containing a great deal of new or completely revised material, written in a formal contemporary hand.
Copy of the 'Evidence taken before the Lords Committee' ... on the 'Act for making a railway from Glasgow to Crofthead ... to be called the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway'.
This manuscript relates specifically to objections to it raised by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr railway company, but also includes much evidence from local manufacturers as to the use they could make of the proposed line. The line was opened in 1848.
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.
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.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Correspondence, articles, reports, and photographs of and concerning Duncan Macrae, with related theatre programmes, press cuttings and playscripts.
Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.
The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Law cases of Lord President Duncan Forbes of Culloden.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
Legal papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case against William Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
Letters and papers, including a specimen printed sheet, 1784, concerning the New Musical Type devised by Samuel Arnold for his edition of the works of George Frideric Handel.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Letters to, and drafts of replies of, John Cay, the Convenor of the Finance Committee of the Faculty of Advocates, and other papers.
Literary papers of the poet and author, Alastair Reid (born 1926).
Born in Whithorn and educated at St Andrews, Alastair Reid lived in Spain and Latin America for many years, translating from Spanish as well as writing his own poetry and prose. His papers reflect these different kinds of work.