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Correspondence of Professor A A M Duncan as joint editor of the 'Scottish Historical Review'; with a register, 'Books reviewed', for the same publication.
Professor A A M Duncan was joint editor with D E R Watt of the 'Scottish Historical Review', 1963-1971.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Diary of the South African campaign of 1900-1901 kept by Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert George Sotheby of the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The diary, though silent on the larger issues, is interesting for its first-hand accounts of the raids in which the battalion took part. A list of the battalion's officers and a drawing of Colonel Plumer (later Viscount Plumer) are also included.
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts, 1754-1760, and undated, of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane.
The transcripts extend from the earliest surviving rolls to Book 34; presumably Macfarlane`s intention was to continue the series to at least Book 59 (cf. his index, Adv.MS.35.1.8), but the absence of a title page in volume X suggests that it was the last completed.
Documents concerning the activities of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart as British Vice-Consul in Moscow, with a championship medal of the Moscow Football League.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Edinburgh Opera Company.
Minutes, accounts and members' lists, 1948-1954, of the Edinburgh Opera Company. The Edinburgh Opera Company was founded in 1920 and was in existence until 1981. The first meeting in the minute book, 25 October 1948, records the reconstitution of the Company with new links to the Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee, which had started a new Institute of Music at Broughton High School.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
Eight letters and postcards of Agnes Miller Parker to Ernest Rasdall.
With a manuscript list of books illustrated by Miller Parker.
Eight letters of Joan Hassall to Ruari McLean.
Letters concern Hassall`s book illustrations. With typescript list, circa 1953, of her work, compiled by Hassall.
‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’, a register of correspondence of State, including contemporary copies of royal letters.
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. I. State Papers, part I (F.R.184)
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Extracts and copies of historical works, collected by Sir James Balfour, 17th century.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Extracts from official records, journals and newspapers, sixteenth to nineteenth century, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections.
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Fair copy 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.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Final, or fair copies of musical compositions, 1958-1967, by Martin Dalby, many in his autograph, arranged in chronological order.
The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.
Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.
Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.
Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.
Formal documents contained amongst the papers of John Riddell, peerage lawyer.
`Foundation of the Universitie of Cambridge with a Catologue of the principall founders and speciall Benefactors of the Colledges publike Schooles and Librarie now extant in ye same. And the names of all the present Mrs and Fellowes ... together with the number of Magistrats Gouernours and Officers ... Collected Julie the 10th 1622`, compiled by John Scott, a notary public, who dedicated it to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.
The manuscript includes the painted arms of each college and its founder, and of some of the university officials.