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Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
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.
Four notebooks of Sir Robert Somerville containing material on the history of Dunfermline.
File
Identifier: Acc.10930
Dates:
circa 1930.
Literary and personal papers of Marion Lochhead.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11588
Dates:
circa 1950-1985.
Manuscripts of parts of George Scott-Moncrieff's verse drama ‘Fotheringhay’, and of his history of the Catholic Church in Scotland, ‘The mirror and the cross’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19628-19631
Dates:
1951, 1960.
Notebook containing historical notices of Leith.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.28
Scope and Contents
The notebook was begun probably in 1817, the date of the watermark of the sheets, and continued probably until 1821, the latest date quoted (folio 82 verso: the visit of George IV to Scotland in 1822 does not appear to be mentioned). The compiler, who has not been identified, appears to have derived much of his information from printed sources, especially the histories of Edinburgh by William Maitland (published 1753), Hugo Arnot (first published 1779) and Alexander Kincaid (published 1787)....
Dates:
?1817-?1821.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Item
Identifier: MS.5725
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains: copies of James Steuart’s appointment to the office of Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, 1737 (folio 1); list of perquisites of the office (folio 3); order for drawing up inventories (folio 4 verso); copy of inventories, 1685, 1714, of the furniture in different departments of Holyroodhouse, such as the Wardrobe, Council Chamber, Exchequer, Session House, etc., (folio 8); and a history of the office, including copies of documents relating to it (folio 28 verso). Most of...
Dates:
1685-1769.
Notes of Alastair Shanks on the history of the Anderson and Woodman Library, Strichen, Aberdeenshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8041
Dates:
1969.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.