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Account of time as a nurse at the King George V Seamen`s Memorial Hospital, Malta, of Miss J G M Allan.

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Identifier: Acc.11950
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter, press cuttings and a newsletter.

Dates: 1938-1942.

'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3865
Scope and Contents The manuscript was probably written in or shortly after 1755, a date which occurs on page 31.The original work has not been traced; it may or may not have been printed. It was divided into at least twelve sections, and should be identifiable from many references to its pages in the present manuscript, for example: page 86, Lovat's escape from Inverness; pages 15, 153, the meeting of Jacobite leaders at Muirlaggan in May, 1746; pages 165, 246, Murray of Broughton's capture and...
Dates: [1755, or after.]

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 manuscript of `History of Scots Affairs from the year 1637 to 1641.`, by James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.18
Scope and Contents

The manuscript, written between December 1659 and March 1661, contains the Argument to Book II, and Books II-V.

Dates: 1659-1661.

Copy of G A B Dowar and J H Boraston, "Sir Douglas Haig`s Command".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7131
Scope and Contents

Containing letter of Dewar, and letter and presentation note of Boraston, and press cuttings.

Dates: 1922.

'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.

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Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents

The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).

Dates: 1559-1618.

Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.

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Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".

Dates: 1818.

Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.

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Identifier: Acc.9932
Scope and Contents

Additional papers include:

printed proposals for the work

printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text

papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.

Dates: 1753 and undated.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Augustus Muir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9522
Scope and Contents

Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).

Dates: 1915-1987.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

Further papers of William Walls.

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Identifier: Acc.14364/1-7
Scope and Contents

The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.

Dates: 1845-1992.

`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.15
Scope and Contents

At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.

Dates: 1832-1853.

Incomplete copy of an apparently rejected version, entitled `The King, and Parliament`, of Chapter II of Volume II of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.10
Scope and Contents The text is printed on paper watermarked 1807, and contains many additions and corrections in the margins and on slips of paper pasted in, in his hand and in the hand of his nephew James Chalmers. The chapter as originally printed apparently consisted of a total of 64 pages in 8 gatherings, containing not more than 8 pages of introductory matter (gathering A, pages i-?viii) and not more than 56 pages of text, with footnotes (gatherings B to H, pages 1-?56); this copy lacks gatherings A, G...
Dates: ?1807-?1819.

Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates: Early 18th century.

Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.

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Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates: 1797-1826, undated.

Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.622-632
Scope and Contents

These papers are in continuation of MS.535.

The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.

Dates: 1804-1857.

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Boraston, John Herbert, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1885-1969 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Allan, J G M, nurse, fl 1938-1942 1
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Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Barret, John 1
Bax, Cyril E O, Captain, fl 1914-1926 1
Brodie, William, sculptor, 1815-1881: recipient 1
Buchanites, Irvine, Scotland, religious sect 1
Buckmaster, Stanley Owen, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, Lord Chancellor, 1861-1934 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, Knight, statesman, 1874-1965 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Cunningham, Ian Campbell, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, b 1938 1
Dalrymple, Janet, daughter of James, 1st Viscount Stair, d 1669 1
Dares Phrygius 1
Dewar, George Albemarle Bertie, author and editor, 1862-1934 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Drummond, Andrew Alastair Landale, Minister of Eadie, Alva, d 1966 1
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, poet, 1585-1649 1
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, poet, 1585-1649: recipient 1
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 1
Fowler, Thomas 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bishop of St Asaph and chronicler) 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Henderson, James (physician, New York) 1
Innes, Cosmo, antiquary, 1798-1874 1
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 1
Lacasselle, G P, author of "Le 1er Corps d'Armée pendant la Guerre 1914-1918", fl 1914-1922 1
Law, Robert, field preacher, d c 1686 1
Lindesay, Robert, of Pitscottie, historian, c 1532-c 1586 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
MacDonald, Charles, priest in Moidart, 1835-1894 1
MacLean, Alasdair, physician, genealogist and historian, 1918-1999 1
MacLeod, Daniel 1
MacLeod, Norman (22nd Chief of Clan MacLeod) 1
Maitland, William, historian and topographer, c 1693-1757 1
Maltby, Samuel, 1718-1771 (merchant, Boston) 1
Maltby, Thomas (merchant, London) 1
Morison, Benjamin 1
Morison, Normand (physician and merchant, Hartford, Connecticut) 1
Morison, Roderick (physician and merchant, Hartford, Connecticut) 1
Muir, Charles Augustus Carlow, author and journalist, 1892-1989 1
Mure, Sir Robert, Knight, of Caldwell, fl 1590-1600. 1
Nicolson, John (merchant, Oban) 1
Pont, Timothy, topographer, fl 1574–1611 1
Pseudo-Aristotle 1
Quincy, Josiah, 1710–1784 (merchant, Boston) 1
Rogers, Thomas (merchant, London) 1
Roughead, William, writer of Scottish criminal trials, 1870-1952 1
Scott, John 1
Scottish Unionist Association, political association 1
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851: editor 1
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851: recipient 1
Slater, Oscar Joseph, victim of miscarriage of justice, formerly Leschziner, 1872-1948 1
Standard Press Ltd, Montrose, publishers 1
Strachan, Michael, writer, b 1919 1
Stuart, Malcolm (Michael) Moncrieff, 1903-1991 (civil servant in India and Pakistan) 1
Todd, John (merchant, London) 1
Train, Joseph, antiquary, 1779-1852: collector 1
Walker, Mary, correspondent of Margaret Carlyle Aitken, niece of Thomas Carlyle, fl 1920: recipient 1
Walley, Abiel, 1686-1759 (merchant, Boston) 1
Walls, William, painter, 1860-1942 1
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