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`Some Remarks on Providence and the Lord`s dealings with me in my tender years, and progressively carried on since. Together with some Meditations on various subjects`, by Hugh Camron, a catechist and schoolmaster in Lochbroom.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.30
Scope and Contents

The first 12 chapters are mainly autobiographical. There are two later insertions however, the preface and the section between folios 49 and 53 verso, which deals with later events in his life dating from 1751 to 1763. Chapter 13 is divided into 16 sections taking the form of moralising essays on various aspects of Christian behaviour. The work is apparently unpublished.

Dates: 1746-1763.

'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.

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Identifier: MS.9659
Scope and Contents

The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.

Dates: [Circa 1870.]

"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.

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Identifier: Acc.12456
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.

Dates: 1794-1802.

The Melrosian Annual, 1888

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13258
Scope and Contents Manuscript volume consisting of essays, short stories, anecdotes and verse contributed by past and present members of staff of the firm of Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers. Many of the contributions are reminiscences of the shop and its customers including Professor John Stuart Blackie, f.198, Edinburgh and society. The volume is illustrated with a few pen and ink drawings.Inscribed W.R.M. on inside front cover. With note at the front affirming that this volume...
Dates: 1888, 1917

"The Scottish Regality, 1300-1455", an undergraduate essay by Archibald A M Duncan for the Honours Class of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, 1944.

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Identifier: Acc.12305
Scope and Contents

Includes related letter, 1954, of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross.

Dates: 1944, 1954.

Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents

Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.

Dates: 2nd half of 19th century.

Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732, and an essay entitled `The Superstitions of Perth`, 1788, by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.13.1.1-13.1.7
Scope and Contents

This is part i of Scott`s transcripts and translations.

Scott`s transcribing work is interspersed with historical notices by him.

Dates: 1241-1732, 1788.

Two manuscripts of Sir William Purves`s work on the revenue of the Crown in Scotland.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.14-31.2.14a
Scope and Contents Purves does not seem to have altered the figures of the rental after compiling his work in 1667, but he did expand the section of the introduction on the Court of Exchequer. The final form which the work took in 1681 was published by D Murray Rose as ‘Revenue of the Scottish Crown, 1681’, from a manuscript in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 33,238). The original work of 1667 (entitled ‘Ane Abbreviat of his Majesties proper and constant rent peyit be the severall ffewars for their...
Dates: 1667-1681.

Typescript of 'The Knighthood of the Clergy' by Owen Chadwick, with associated correspondence.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14080
Content Description

One of several privately-distributed copies of Chadwick's unpublished essay, 1985, which investigates whether it is lawful for members of the clergy to be denied the right to use the title 'Sir' following their acceptance of a knighthood. Chadwick, himself a priest in the Anglican Church, was knighted in 1983. The essay also covers the situation in Scotland, as does the accompanying correspondence with the Very Rev. Dr. Hugh Douglas, St. Andrews.

Dates: 1981-1985

Unpublished memoir of George Douglas Brown, probably by David S Meldrum.

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Identifier: Acc.10420
Scope and Contents

With draft essay, undated, of Brown on Hamlet.

Dates: early 20th century.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

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Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.

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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, 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
MacKinnon, John, University of Edinburgh, fl 1850 1
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