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Album of the Reverend John Kirk.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11146
Scope and Contents

Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.

Dates: circa 1814-1855.

Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10095
Scope and Contents

Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.

Dates: 1962.

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.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10256
Scope and Contents The album for the most part contains cut-out signatures of well-known nineteenth-century figures but there are also several letters notably of Charles Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Henry Siddons, Samuel Warren and Baroness Wentworth. Also included are autograph poems by Thomas Campbell and James Hogg. The poems of Hogg (folios 64-66) are "Lenochan's farewell", 'The Stuarts of Appin' and 'The poor man', all published in ‘The works of the Ettrick Shepherd' (London, 1873). The verses of Thomas...
Dates: 1829-1872.

Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates: 16th century-1793.

Five leaves from an autograph album.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5623
Scope and Contents

Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.

With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.

Dates: 1755-1830 and undated.

Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.

 File
Identifier: MS.2917
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1790, undated.

Letter, 1875, of Cardinal Newman to James Thin.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6651
Scope and Contents

With:

letter, 1948, of Anna Buchan

signature, 1845, of George Cruickshank.

Dates: 1845, 1875 and 1948.

Letter of Catherine Carswell to Edwin Muir in a copy of ‘The green ship’ (London, 1936) by Patrick Miller.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19704
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1936.

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).

 File
Identifier: MS.962
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 18th century-19th century.

Miscellaneous autograph letters, official documents, signatures, etc., pasted into an album.

 File
Identifier: MS.3873
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 File
Identifier: MS.546
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Printed demand addressed to Sir Thomas Pope of Wroxton, signed by King Charles I and countersigned by Sir Edward Littleton, Lord Chancellor, for a voluntary contribution to the loan raised against the Scots invasion, 1643/1644. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter to the High Sheriff of the County of Montgomery, signed by King Charles I and countersigned by Littleton, 1644. Half the loan raised in the County is to be paid to Prince Rupert for the army...
Dates: 1643-1869, undated.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 File
Identifier: MS.819
Dates: 1643, 1661, 19th century.

Papers of Scottish interest.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3948
Scope and Contents

Including an Edinburgh burgess ticket, 1710, to Allan Ramsay and papers, 19th century, of George Hardiman.

Dates: 17th century to 19th century.

Petition presented by pensioners and discharged soldiers of the County of Lanark to the House of Lords.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3124
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 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.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.967-968
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1820-1840.

‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.

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Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates: 1909.

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Names
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841 1
Cruikshank, George, caricaturist, 1792-1878 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1