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‘Holiday house’ (Edinburgh, 1839) by Catherine Sinclair, stories for children, with watercolour illustrations by the author inserted.

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Identifier: MS.24640
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The drawings appear to have been cut from the original manuscript: the names of the characters differ from those in the published version. There is an inscription by the author, dated 1838 [sic], on the title-page.

Dates: [1839, or after.]

Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).

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Identifier: MS.21855
Scope and Contents The copy contains two printed summaries of the plot tipped in at the front (folios i-ii) and numerous stage directions written on leaves tipped in throughout the volume and in the margins of the printed pages, as well as alterations to the text, for an unidentified apparently late nineteenth-century French production.The volume is signed by Ernest Marchand (deleted) and Francois Runaio on the upper cover which is inscribed 'Travrata mise en Scène n[o]. 2', and by Marchand on page...
Dates: 1865, late 19th century.

Index by John Walker to theological works.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.9
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Volume titled ‘Chronological M.S. vol I’, with inscription on the fly leaf, ‘Inchoatus est hic inven anno Dom. millesimo septingentesimo et nono, die Januar. Vicesimo sento. Jo Walker’.

Dates: Early 18th century.

Inscribed copy of George S Robertson, "Reminiscences of an Orkney Nonagenarian" (1977).

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Identifier: Acc.10199
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Includes a letter of Robertson.

Dates: 1977.

Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".

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Identifier: Acc.9282
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with additional poems in typescript.

Dates: 1961.

Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).

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Identifier: Acc.11181
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Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.

Dates: 1967.

Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.

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Identifier: Acc.11586
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Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.

Dates: 1977-1978.

Inscribed copy of William A Younger, "Madonna and Other Poems" (1935).

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Identifier: Acc.8912
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With two letters of Younger to Dennis and Joan Wheatley.

Dates: 1935 and undated.

Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates: 1617-1668, undated.

Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.

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Identifier: Acc.12914
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The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).

Dates: 1944-1976.

Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.

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Identifier: Acc.12476
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Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".

Dates: 1993-2004.

Letters of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.

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Identifier: Acc.8655
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With letters to Lord Stuart de Rothesay, the Duc de Broglie and Marquis de Lafayette.

Dates: 1821-1830 and undated.

Letters of Jane Carlyle Aitken, four of her daughter, Mary, and others of the Carlyle family.

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Identifier: Acc.6267
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With a copy of "The Saints` Everlasting Rest (1833), inscribed by Thomas Carlyle, and an engraved portrait of him.

Dates: 1833, 1858-? 1866, and undated.

Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.

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Identifier: MS.784
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The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.

Dates: 1697-1698.

Manuscript, "Catalogue of Ancient Charters in Bibliotheca Advocatienis Edinburghiensis", 19th century.

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Identifier: Acc.4420
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With "Inscriptions", 1789-1800, by John Ramsay.

Dates: 1789-circa 1899.

Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates: ?15th century.

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Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 2
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 2
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Aitken, Jane Carlyle, sister of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, née Carlyle, 1810-1888 1
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Aitken, Mary Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist, fl 1877-1932 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Beveridge, James, Writer to the Signet, 1800-1869 1
Blunden, Edmund Charles (Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford) (1896-1974) 1
Broglie, Jacques Victor Albert, Duc de Broglie, politician, 1821-1901: recipient 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (statesman, Lord Chancellor) (1778-1868) 1
Caimbeul, Maoilios M (poet and writer) 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Clough, S DeWitt, President, Abbott Laboratories, 1880-1960 1
Collis, John Stewart, writer and naturalist, 1900-1984 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Cormack, Jessie, author of "The Spell", fl 1961 1
Corrie, Joseph, miner and playwright, 1894-1968 1
Cramer, Sidney, genealogist, fl 1904-1985 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, poet, b 1942 1
Erskine, James, Lord Grange, Lord Justice Clerk, d 1754 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Fairfax, Archibald Montgomerie, Lady, wife of Sir Henry, 1st Bart., née Williamson, d 1844 1
Gallacher, Tom, playwright, writer, 1934-2001 1
Graham, Janet, poet, 1723-1805: former owner 1
Grant, Duncan James Corrowr, painter, 1885-1978 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, 1892-1978 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Henderson, George Francis Robert, Director of Military Intelligence, South Africa, 1854-1903 1
Holms, Beatrix, author of "The Zodiac", fl 1925-1934 1
Holms, Dorothy, wife of John Holms, writer, née Peacock, fl 1919-1934: former owner 1
Holms, John, writer, 1897-1934: former owner 1
Hutchison, Graham Seton, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1890-1946 1
Keith, George, 10th Earl Marischal (succeeded 1712), c 1692-1778 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 1
Mackinlay, William, Dumbarton, fl 1732: former owner 1
Mare, Walter John de la, poet and author, 1873-1956 1
McLaren, Moray David Shaw, author, 1901-1971 1
Mead, Matthew, poet and translator, 1924-2009: recipient 1
Mead, Ruth, translator, wife of Matthew, poet and translator, fl 1968-2004: recipient 1
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
Motier, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du, Marquis de Lafayette, Major General, 1757-1834: recipient 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Murison, David D, lexicographer, 1914-1997 1
National Library of Scotland 1
Pirandello, Luigi, writer, 1867-1936 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: collector 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: recipient 1
Ramsay, John, of Ochtertyre, Advocate, 1736-1814 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Robert I, King of Scots, 1274-1329 1
Robertson, George Scott, author of "Reminiscences of an Orkney Nonagenarian", b 1887 1
Robertson, Ian, Lord Robertson, Senator of the College of Justice, 1912-2005: recipient 1
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, poet, 1828-1882 1
Ruddiman, Thomas, Librarian of the Advocates' Library, 1674-1757 1
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 1
Schotz, Cherna, daughter of Benno, sculptor, b 1930: former owner 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Stuart, Charles, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845 1
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 1
Wheatley, Dennis Yates, writer, 1897-1977: recipient 1
Wheatley, Joan Gwendoline Pelham Burn, writer, pseudonym Eve Chaucer, née Johnston, then Younger, b c 1895: recipient 1
Wordsworth, William (English poet and garden designer) (1770-1850) 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
Younger, William Antony, poet, pseudonym William Mole, 1917-1961 1
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