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Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Autograph collection of John Horseman, Rector of Heydon, containing letters of celebrities of the early nineteenth century, chiefly addressed to Horseman, and many franks and other signatures.
Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.
Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.
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.
Collection of letters and signatures, with many of the letters addressed to Dr David Maclagan and members of his family.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.
James Bruce requests a reward for his services in giving advice on the possibility of an attack on Ferrol or Gascony and in exploring Barbary and the Nile, and describes his interviews with the authorities in London.
From the handwriting of the endorsement, the letter appears to have been addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Letter, 1875, of Cardinal Newman to James Thin.
With:
letter, 1948, of Anna Buchan
signature, 1845, of George Cruickshank.
Letter of Catherine Carswell to Edwin Muir in a copy of ‘The green ship’ (London, 1936) by Patrick Miller.
Catherine Carswell identifies Patrick Miller as her brother, Gordon Macfarlane, and writes about her work and other activities. The book is signed by Miller and the artist Eric Gill.
Letters addressed to or collected by members of the Bliss family (Dr J Bliss, Hampstead and Bath; Reverend William Bliss, Newnton and Bath; Reverend James Bliss, editor of Laud; William H Bliss).
The correspondents of the Blisses are literary, antiquarian, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the early 19th century. In addition, at least one of the family collected autographs and several of his own time and of the 18th century are included. A number of letters are addressed to Thomas Park, the antiquary, and others are written by members of the Athenaeum to the Secretary, Edward Magrath.
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.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Papers of Scottish interest.
Including an Edinburgh burgess ticket, 1710, to Allan Ramsay and papers, 19th century, of George Hardiman.
Petition presented by pensioners and discharged soldiers of the County of Lanark to the House of Lords.
The petitioners claim exemption from the payment of Road Money, a tax levied for the repair of roads, etc., in lieu of Highway Duty, in virtue of an Act exempting ex-soldiers from the latter. The document, which bears 86 signatures, is accompanied by a letter to the 2nd Viscount Melville, 1823.
Two albums, titled 'Autographs and Portraits', and labelled 1 and 3, of a collection apparently formed by Thomas Thompson, Liverpool, to whom several of the letters are addressed, from about 1820 to about 1840.
The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.