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Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Autograph collection, chiefly of the late nineteenth century.
The correspondents include politicians, artists and figures from the medical and theatrical professions. It probably belonged to Jean Lang, née Blaikie, to whom many of the letters are addressed, but a substantial amount of the correspondence is to William Miller, Member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and the physician, Sir Thomas Lauder-Brunton.
Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert, mostly from the publisher John Murray.
Autograph collection of W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, containing letters of political, literary, and other figures.
A number of the letters are addressed to Alexander Adam, rector of Edinburgh High School, and others to David Dickson, master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. There is a small group of naval autographs, 1746-1813 (folio 267) and a manuscript periodical, 'The Glencorse Advertiser', for July 1840 (folio 281).
Autograph letters of David Livingstone to various correspondents.
Autograph letters to Charles Lawson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from eminent persons in professional, civil and commercial life, being replies to invitations and other letters.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.
The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters chiefly of, to, and about James Grahame, the author of ‘The Sabbath’.
Among the correspondents are Joanna Baillie, Thomas Campbell, Cockburn, Jeffrey, Dugald Stewart, and William Wilberforce. An autograph manuscript of 'The Siege of Copenhagen' (folio 75) differs in several places from the printed text; there is also an autograph manuscript of Thomas Campbell's "The Soldier's Dream" (folio 10), and a copy of Charles Wolfe's 'The Burial of Sir John Moore' (folio 82).
Microfilm of ‘Autograph letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1800-1826’, chiefly to Charles Erskine and James Curle.
Miscellaneous autograph letters, official documents, signatures, etc., pasted into an album.
There are a number of letters to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767), which relate largely to his antiquarian interests. Most of the other letters are also of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the writers include noblemen, churchmen, public servants, and prominent literary figures.