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Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copy, eighteenth century, of 'The Genealogie off the Mackenzies preceeding the year 1661. Written in the year 1669. By a Person of Quality’.
This copy of the well-known genealogy in 1732 belonged to a John Matheson (folio i) and had probably been written by him about the same time. Although many leaves have been cut out at the end, the copy is almost complete. It includes a poem entitled ‘Arbuthnet on Sr. George Mackenzie off Rosehaugh’, beginning:
“Well then since the Relentless doom is spoke
And there is no mortall power can ward the Stroak
Scotland must ruin, it’s the Almighties will” (folios 73-74).
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of Patrick William Campbell, Writer to the Signet.
Includes material on investments in Argentina, genealogy, biography and poetry.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Genealogical and other material collected by William Camden, the antiquary.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
Manuscript containing Irish grammar written by Aodh Ó Dálaigh (Hugo Daly) for Paris Anderson, a student of Trinity College, Dublin.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.
Papers, 1321-1601, to and of the family of Murray of Falahill.
Includes translations of the papers, genealogical notes, genealogies of the families of Falahill and Philiphaugh, and a copy of a poem "The Song of Outlaw Murray", all mid 19th century.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers of Duncan Glen.
Papers concern Glen`s poetry, critical works on Hugh MacDiarmid, genealogy of the Glen family and Akros publications, including editorial correspondence.
Papers of Sir Robert Strange, the engraver, and his brother-in-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, encompassing the period from the '45 Rebellion to the early 19th century, with some earlier family documents and later genealogical material.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.