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Circa 20 manuscripts concerning Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3761
Scope and Contents
Inserted in William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (1753).
Dates:
1562-1781.
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Item
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.
Manuscript entitled "Collections towards a history of tolbooths, bridewells and prisons in Edinburgh", compiled by John A Fairley.
File
Identifier: Acc.12721
Scope and Contents
Includes related printed papers, and historical notes by Fairley on this and other topics of Edinburgh history and biography.
Dates:
circa 1900.
Manuscript of John Howell, in the form of 13 letters.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5779
Scope and Contents
Describing Edinburgh life and topography at the end of the 18th century.
Dates:
1854.
Typescript of an unpublished literary and cultural history of Edinburgh in the age of enlightenment by Agnes M Macdonald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8553
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century.