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'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'

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Identifier: MS.3804
Scope and Contents

With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.

The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.

Dates: 1743-1825.

Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates: 1537-1606.

Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.

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Identifier: Acc.14317/1-34
Content Description Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates: 1877-2003 and undated, with most of the material dated 1877-1920s.

Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.

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Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents

Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.

Dates: 1799-1853, undated.

Jacobite Papers.

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Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: 1645-1891.

Letters and papers of and concerning artists and other notables, collected by Aeneas Mackay.

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Identifier: Acc.11785
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include:

David Y Cameron

Muirhead Bone

James McBey

Dates: Late 19th century to early 20th century.

Letters of John Byrne to Douglas Percy Bliss.

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Identifier: Acc.14291
Scope and Contents John Byrne was a student of the Glasgow School of Art from 1958 to 1963, while Douglas Percy Bliss was its Director. The letters concern Byrne's early career as a painter and playwright and his relationship with Portal Gallery, Mayfair, London, where he exhibited under the name 'Patrick'.With ephemera collected by Bliss including printed leaflets and catalogue guides to 'Patrick''s exhibitions, newspaper cuttings on John Byrne's work, and John Byrne's 1999 Millenium commemorative...
Dates: 1967-1973.

Letters of John D Fergusson to Nigel McIsaac.

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Identifier: Acc.10234
Scope and Contents

With letter of McIsaac concerning Ferguson, letters of Margaret Morris and annotated catalogues of Ferguson`s work.

Dates: 1959-1966.

'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.

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Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents

The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.

Dates: 1894-early 20th century.

Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.

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Identifier: Dep.221
Dates: 1177, 15th century-1924.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

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Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.

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Identifier: Dep.115- is now Acc.4642.
Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

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Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

Photocopies of a letter, 1870, of R W Emerson to the President of Harvard.

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Identifier: Acc.7928
Scope and Contents

Concerning Thomas Carlyle`s intended bequest of books to Harvard College.

With a catalogue, undated, of the library in the Land of Mary Aitken.

Dates: 1870 and undated.

Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.

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Identifier: MSS.50273-50276
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Scots in Jamaica, including letters of the Earl of Balcarres, the Fyffe family and other Scots in Jamaica.

Typewritten lists concenring materials of Scottish interest in the National Library of Jamaica, formerly the West India Reference Library.

Typewritten list of Scottish place names in Jamaica.

Dates: 1699; 1735-1846.

Sale catalogues of books and transcripts of letters of Scottish interest in the Caligula section of the Cotton Library.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.12
Scope and Contents On folio i is written `No. 14 of Mr. Matthew Crawfurd`s printed Catalogue of Manuscripts. in fol.`, which appears to be intended as a title for the volume, although it does not correspond to the contents. On the same folio the letter `B` and the signature `John Wright` appear twice. All of these are in eighteenth-century hands. Section (iii) is the earliest, and the volume must have been later adapted by the writers of sectitons (i) and (ii).Section (i): Sale-catalogue of books,...
Dates: Late 16th century-early 18th century.

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Gordon, family, of Halmyre and Gordonstoun 2
Aitken, Mary Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist, fl 1877-1932 1
Bliss, Douglas Percy, 1900-1984 (painter, wood engraver, scholar, and writer of belles lettres) 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Byrne, John (Scottish playwright and artist) 1