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Account of the peasant rising of 1865 in Jamaica, being the final draft of part of an uncompleted work on Governor Eyre, by William Law Mathieson, Doctor of Laws.
Item
Identifier: MS.2616
Dates:
[Circa 1938.]
`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.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2955-2956
Dates:
1589-1881.
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.
Autograph draft score and final version of Edward Harper, "Launch whan ye can", for alto, tenor and piano (words by William Soutar).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10797
Dates:
1992.
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
File
Identifier: MS.22151
Scope and Contents
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Dates:
1969.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Item
Identifier: MS.21977
Dates:
[Circa 1960.]
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
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.
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
File
Identifier: Acc.5005
Dates:
1970.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 19 poems of Roderick Watson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7643
Dates:
circa 1966-circa 1976.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 190 poems of Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8403
Dates:
1972-1982.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and a play of David Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10096
Dates:
1987-1988.
Corrected manuscript draft of part of George Cruickshank, "An Address and Explanation to the Scottish People with Respect to the Proposed Statue in Honour of King Robert the Bruce".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6627
Dates:
1874.
Corrected manuscript of Sir Compton Mackenzie, "Figure of Eight"
Item
Identifier: Acc.10169
Dates:
1936.
Corrected manuscripts of three essays of William Sharp, "The Cuckoo", "The Heralds of March", and "Mäya", with parts of two other essays.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7479
Dates:
circa 1880-circa 1900.
Corrected proofs of John Bellany and Alan Bold, "Homage to MacDiarmid".
File
Identifier: Acc.9156
Scope and Contents
With lithographic plates, and manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem.
Dates:
circa 1986.
Corrected typescript, circa 1948, of the Reverend Dr William S Urquhart, "Some Memories of O Douglas"
File
Identifier: Acc.6893
Scope and Contents
With corrected manuscript draft of part of an unpublished novel, undated, of Anna Buchan.
Dates:
circa 1948 and undated.
Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).
Dates:
circa 1976-circa 1977.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.332
Dates:
1980.
Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.
Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.
Dates:
1938-1973, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.26
Scope and Contents
Most of the material concerns Arlington in his capacity of Secretary of State, particularly with reference to French and Dutch affairs, and much of it is dated 1669. The correspondence contains letters from foreign statesmen and diplomatists such as the Marquis de Louvois and Baron von Lisola, English politicians such as Sir Richard Temple and Sidney Godolphin, and a number of unsigned letters reporting on events in Europe, probably from Arlington`s agents. There are a few memoranda on...
Dates:
1662-1678.
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.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.323- is now Acc.13476.
Dates:
1944-1978.