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Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
File
Identifier: MS.18000
Scope and Contents
The album includes letters from several prominent Edinburgh figures of the early 19th century such as Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, and Edward W A Drummond Hay, Principal Clerk, Lyon Office. Both men appear to have been in regular correspondence with William Ford. Amongst the printed items is an "Inventory of Work done for the State by his Majesty's Printer in Scotland 1642-1647" (Edinburgh, 1815), edited by Thomas Thomson. There are also a number of newspaper reports of meetings of...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents
The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates:
1778-1791.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly concerning donations.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/26
Scope and Contents
The papers include the following.(i) Letter dated, 5th November 1851, concerning the Hutton manuscript.(ii) Letter dated, 1855, of Alexander Duff concerning the Decisions of Bengal Courts.(iii) Letter dated, 22nd January 1856, concerning the presentation of Prince Albert's 'The Natural History of Deeside'.(iv) Letter dated, 16th December 1846, of Thomas M'Crie concerning the presentaion of Baillie's sermons, 1637-1639, and a Wodrow...
Dates:
1851-1891.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning donations and purchases.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/49
Scope and Contents
Includes the inventory of John Campbell of Islay collection.
Dates:
1828-1861.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e(ii)
Dates:
1863-1925.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13436
Scope and Contents
The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.
Dates:
1798-1854, undated
Correspondence of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates concerning a bond of Lord Elgin.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/21
Dates:
1821-1842.
Hutton transcripts. A collection of transcripts of the cartularies of Aberdeen Cathedral (Adv.MS.20.3.1) and Newbattle Abbey (Adv.MS.20.3.3) and of charters and other formal documents, many of which are extracts from other cartularies, of and concerning several of the medieval dioceses and religious houses of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.3.1-20.3.9
Scope and Contents
Most of these transcripts and extracts, which were made between circa 1794 and circa 1824, are in the hand of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton: most of the rest are in the same hand as Adv.MS.9A.1.4. Many of the transcripts were made from originals and copies in possession of William Maule of Panmure, who was created Baron Panmure in 1831: many of the rest were copied from documents in possession of Thomas Thomson and at the Scottish Record Office, General Register House.
Dates:
12th century-1661.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.10
Scope and Contents
The pieces of jewellery are described, with their weight, on the rectos of the folios; on the versos are notes in two different hands, 1606-1611, concerning items taken away for repair, sent to the goldsmiths for use in other pieces, or removed for other reasons.The inventory is not signed but was probably compiled under the supervision of Francis Goffin. See `Anne of Denmark`s Jewellery: The Old and the New`, pages 228-236.A copy of a letter, 1618, to one of the...
Dates:
Circa 1606-1611, 1618.
Kennel Book, 1797-1926, compiled by James Hunter Rutherford W.S. (adm.1877), of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. With correspondence, accounts and subscription lists, 1915-1948, of and relating to the Hunt.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13278
Scope and Contents
The main interest of this collection lies in the Kennel Book. Its author, James Hunter Rutherford, was Honorary Secretary of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt and Master of Foxhounds from1915-1926. He was the author of The History of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt, 1775-1910, Edinburgh, 1911. The Kennel Book records every hound that was part of the hunt, its name, parentage and fate.
Dates:
1797-1948
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
File
Identifier: F.R.342
Dates:
1819-1838.
Letters and papers of the family of Campbell of Inverawe.
File
Identifier: MS.1672
Scope and Contents
Most of the letters and papers are of the 17th century, and deal with the garrisoning of Lochaber and district, the payment of the garrisons, the patrolling of unruly neighbourhoods, and similar measures for the establishment and maintenance of law and order. There are several instructions signed by the Marquess of Argyll, and letters from him, one of which contains the command to fire Lord Ogilvy's Castle of Forther, if necessary, with further orders as to the disposition of his goods and...
Dates:
1639-1837, undated.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.461
Dates:
?1606-?1618.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9977/1-63
Scope and Contents
Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dates:
1830-1983.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning exemptions from Jury Service.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/17
Dates:
1793-1814.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case of Messrs Tait against James A Maconochie.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/19
Dates:
1823, undated.
Three small groups of private letters and related material.
Series
Identifier: MS.6294
Dates:
1795-1855, undated.