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Four essays on economics and moral philosophy by Patrick J Stirling, written while he was a student at St Andrews in 1828.

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Identifier: MS.14273
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There are brief comments by Thomas Chalmers at the end of the first three essays.

Dates: 1828.

Four theological papers of the Reverened James Brown.

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Identifier: Acc.9996
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With translation of an article.

Dates: 1935-1942 and undated.

Galley proofs of "A Symposium on the After War Religion", unpublished work edited by Denis Saurat, and including an essay of Hugh MacDiarmid.

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Identifier: Acc.9410
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With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.

Dates: 1946-1952.

Heavily corrected manuscript of chapters I-XVII of Thomas Reid, "Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking" (1826).

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Identifier: Acc.8787
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With printed text and plates (with corrections) for Reid`s entry on horology in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia".

Dates: circa 1826.

`Historical Account of Printing in Scotland, During Two Centuries; Being Annals of her Literature, From 1507 to 1707; With an Appendix: comprehending, The History of Paper making, The History of Type founding in Scotland; and an Essay on the Copyright of Authors`, by George Chalmers, the antiquary.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.16
Scope and Contents This is the manuscript which George Chalmers submitted for publication in 1817 to Cadell and Davies who, however, rejected it. The printers discussed are:Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar (two drafts, folios 7, 21);Thomas Davidson (folio 29);John Scot (folio 38);Robert Lekprevik (folio 52);Thomas Bassandyne (folio 63);Alexander Arbuthnot (folio 65);John Ross (folio 68);Henry Charteris...
Dates: 1817, or before.

Holograph essay on early poetry in England by Thomas Campbell, not the same as his published 'Essay on English poetry' but having the same beginning and containing other similar passages.

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Identifier: MS.1009
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Parts of folios 3, 7, and 8 have been cut away, but the text remaining is continuous.

Dates: [1819, or before.]

Holograph manuscript of Ewen Maclachlan or McLachlan, the Celtic scholar, containing Irish literature.

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Identifier: MS.3281
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'Essay on the Antiquity of Irish Literature', followed by an account of the Irish alphabet and contractions, 1814 (folio 1);(ii) Transcripts of the five stories in Gaelic MS.XXXVIII in the National Library (‘A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library’, page 146): 'Oigheadh Gcoinchuloind', "Ar-amach Mhic Con'an aghaidh Airt mhic-Cuinn, Righ Eirionn", 'Oigheadh ChloinneLir', 'Ar-amach Mhic Colgain an aghaidh...
Dates: 1813-1814.

James Gall, "Essay on the Structure of the Human Eye".

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Identifier: Acc.6798
Scope and Contents

Written for a course of popular lectures at Newhaven.

Dates: 1854.

Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.

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Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates: 1836-1863 and undated.

`Just complaint on Mankind for Injuiring [sic] killing and eating animals`; the author`s name `John Williamson, Brachman ` [i.e. Brahmin] has been added in another hand.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.3
Scope and Contents

The author, a sheep farmer, was a friend of James Boswell (see ‘James Boswell, the earlier years, 1740-1769’, pages 4, 33-34).

Dates: 18th century.

Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.

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Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
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Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.

Dates: 1885-1914, undated.

Literary papers of Naomi Mitchison.

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Identifier: Acc.5912
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Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, stories, and essays.

Dates: circa 1929-circa 1970.

Manuscript essay of Alexander Bryce, probably Minister of Kirknewton.

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Identifier: Acc.5016
Scope and Contents

Concerning rainfall.

Dates: 1770.

Manuscript essays of George Mackay Brown concerning Gerard Manley Hopkins, with related notebooks and notes.

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Identifier: Acc.13909
Scope and Contents

Includes several manuscript essays concerning various aspects of Hopkins' work, as well as three notebooks and some loose pages of notes, all concerning Hopkins.

Dates: Circa 1962-1964.

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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 9
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 6
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 3
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 2
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Brown, James, Minister of Colmonell, b 1896 2
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 2
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 2
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Wallace, Sir William, Knight, guardian of Scotland, d 1305 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Aitken, Thomas, Medical Superintendent, District Asylum, Inverness, fl 1867-1880 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Anderson, Arthur, founder of P and O Steam Navigation Co, 1792-1868: recipient 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Association for Promoting Moral, Scientific and Commercial Knowledge, Glasgow 1
Begg, Maxwell Alexander, Assistant Keeper of Printed Books, National Library of Scotland, 1933-1988 1
Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Brodie, Alexander, of Lethen, d 1770: recipient 1
Brodie, Ludovick, of Whytfield, Writer to the Signet, c 1681-1758 1
Brodie, William, sculptor, 1815-1881 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Bruce, James, Inverness, fl 1980 1
Bryce, Alexander, Minister of Kirknewton, 1713-1786 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Buchanan, James, tutor to David S Erksine, 11th Earl of Buchan, fl 1760 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Burton, John Hill, historian, 1809-1881 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Cairns, David Smith, Principal, Christ's College, Aberdeen, 1862-1946 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carter, John Waynflete, bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller, 1905-1975 1
Chadwick, Owen, 1916-2015 1
Clyde Workers' Committee 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Colebrooke, Sir George, 2nd Baronet, of Gatton, 1729-1809 1
Cookson, Sybil Irene Eleanor , novelist, pseudonym Sydney Tremayne, née Taylor, b 1890 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Davidson, Andrew Nevile, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, 1899-1976 1
Davidson, John, of Stewartfield and Haltree, Writer to the Signet, d 1797 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
Dundas, John, Writer to the Signet, d 1816 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Elphinstone, John, 4th Lord Balmerino and 3rd Lord Coupar, 1652-1736 1
Encyclopaedia Britannica, publisher 1
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 1
Erskine, James, Lord Grange, Lord Justice Clerk, d 1754 1
Everson, James, Beverley, Yorkshire, fl 1825-1853 1
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 1
Ferguson, James, astronomer, 1710-1776 1
Ferguson, William, Reader Emeritus in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, b 1924 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Gall, James, Edinburgh, sculptor, b c 1809 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Goalen, James G, author of "Communion Tokens of the Established Church of Scotland", fl 1960 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 1
Gregory, Donald, antiquary, 1803-1836 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 1
Hall, Sir James, 4th Baronet, geologist and chemist, 1761-1832 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994: recipient 1
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 1
Hogg, William Dods, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1919-1925 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820: former owner 1
Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Jones, James Idwal, headteacher and politician, 1900-1982: transcriber 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kemp, Robina Jane, kinswoman of William Strathhenry Kemp, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, fl 1897-1904 1
Kemp, William Strathhenry, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, d 1873 1
Kennedy, Quintin, Abbot of Crossraguel, c 1520-1564 1
La Nauze, Robert, author, artist 1
Lang, Andrew, historian, 1844-1912 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacDiarmid, John, land and temperance reform campaigner, 1855-1937 1
MacInnes, John (minister of Halkirk) 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933 1
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