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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.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Draft of music and words of "Edinburgh Nonsense", by John and Janet Hamilton.
Drafts and fair copies of settings of ten songs by Francis George Scott.
Five of the settings are of poems of Robert Burns (folios 1-27).
Gaelic poetry and a Deed of Renunciation, apparently from the papers of Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland.
Gaelic songs and music, with some translations, collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Includes musical pieces composed by Morison.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Manuscript drafts and printed copy of "Robin`s Christmas Song", original lyrics attributed to Robert Burns.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Manuscripts of English composers.
Manuscripts of the song, "An Immorality" and preliminary draft score of "Obliques", both of Thea Musgrave.
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Miscellaneous collection of music, and of lectures and writings (many fragmentary) on music, and on Scottish music in particular, by Francis George Scott.
Miscellaneous small collections of letters and papers.
Music by Hungarian composers gathered, circa 1902-1921, by Emma Gruber, first wife of Zoltán Kodály.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
Papers of and relating to Harry Lauder.
Papers, circa 1900-1935, of and relating to Sir Harry Lauder. Includes scripts of `patter`, songs and music by Lauder and other writers; draft of `Immortal Memory` speech given by Lauder in Boston, USA, 1915; letter, 1917, of Hannen Swaffer, editor of `The Weekly Dispatch`, praising Lauder`s appearance on the London stage after his son`s death in action in France in December 1916.