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Journal of Margaret Ramsay, describing her family life in Edinburgh, and as a school-teacher at Fochabers and Whithorn. The contents are largely personal, but mention is made of some current events.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.6.6-22.6.10
Scope and Contents The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates: 1825-1840.

Journals and papers of David Stephen, composer and organist.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14377
Content Description

The collection contains journals and some other papers of David Stephen (1869-1946), organist and composer in Dundee, Arbroath and St Andrews, and from 1903 music director of the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.

Dates: 1902-1946.

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

Leaf from Saint Andrews register.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.3958

Lecture of W Hiller, "The History of Polish Emigration in Great Britain".

 File
Identifier: Acc.8559
Scope and Contents

With list of books on the subject.

Dates: 1941.

Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.343
Scope and Contents

The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).

Dates: 1768-1772, 1781-1788.

Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Letter, 1875, of James Braidwood to G W Napier.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7192
Scope and Contents

With a list, undated, of editions of Browne`s "Religio Medici".

Dates: 1875 and undated.

Letter-book containing official copies, in several hands, of correspondence and state papers during the Regency of the Earl of Lennox.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.12
Scope and Contents

The manuscript covers the period from the murder of the Regent Moray in January 1570 until shortly before Regent Lennox`s death early in September 1571.

Dates: 1570-1571.

Letters addressed to James Browne, Doctor of Laws, Advocate, author of ‘A history of the Highlands’, with a few written by him and others regarding him.

 File
Identifier: MS.3700
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondents are literary men, writing with reference to the ‘Caledonian Mercury’, which James Browne edited, but they include several other eminent contemporaries.

The letters have been bound and supplied with lists of the writers by James Grant, the novelist and historian, Browne's son-in-law, in 1862-1863.

Dates: 1815-1844.

Letters and copies of letters concerning the War of the Second Coalition against France, chiefly to General John Ramsay, son of the painter Allan Ramsay, some being addressed to Earl Whitworth and William Wickham.

 File
Identifier: MS.731
Scope and Contents

The letters relate to the war against France, and particularly to dealings with Portugal and Russia, operations in Switzerland and the employment of Swiss troops, and the corps of the Prince of Condé. The writers include Baron Grenville, George Hammond, General Sir Robert Brownrigg, and the 1st Earl of Muzgrave.

Dates: 1796-1821.

Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount, together with some letters written by them.

 File
Identifier: MS.6524
Scope and Contents

The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.

Dates: 1780-1830.

Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).

 File
Identifier: MS.50256
Scope and Contents Estimate, 1852, supplied by R and R Clark, printers, for production costs for a half-crown illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 1).Copy of a memorandum, 1852, between A and C Black and Co and Matthew Urlwin Sears concerning the production of woodcuts for the illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 2).Letters, 1852-1853, of Matthew Urlwin Sears to A and C Black and Co concerning the production and supply of woodcuts for the illustrated editon of...
Dates: 1852-1853

Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.

 File
Identifier: MS.9809
Scope and Contents Most of the material concerns the artists Walter Richard Sickert and James McBey. The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1910-1932, undated, chiefly concerning McBey's paintings and etchings, but including a few letters of Sickert (folio 1);(ii) Printed and manuscript articles by Sickert, 1912-1932, undated, most of which have been reprinted in ‘A free house! ... the writings of Walter Richard Sickert’, edited by Osbert Sitwell (London, 1947)...
Dates: 1910-1935, undated.

Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.3
Scope and Contents In 1630 the armorial was formally recognised by the Privy Council as an official register and a note to that effect, signed by Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon, and Thomas Drysdale, Islay Herald, is on folio 110 verso.The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 663).The contents are as follows:(i) Latin verses on and a painting of the royal arms (folio 1 verso).(ii) Arms of mythical...
Dates: 16th century-17th century.

List, arranged geographically, of the ministers, exhorters, and readers in Scotland, with their stipends, in 1568-1572, written by Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.4
Scope and Contents

Prefixed is a copy of Adv.MS.17.1.4, folio 2 (which belonged to Keith).

Originally part (Inv. XIV) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.

Dates: Late 16th century.

List, compiled after 1611, of bonds of manrent to various Earls of Angus between 1487 and 1602.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8763
Scope and Contents

With possible contents list, 16th century, of a medical work.

Dates: circa 1500-circa 1612.

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Campbell, Archibald, Bishop of Aberdeen, d 1744 1
Campbell, Charles, of Barbreck, Colonel, d 1792 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885 1
Campbelton, David, seaman, Edinburgh, b 1926. 1
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Executive Committee 1
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Central Ironmoulders' Association of Scotland, 1889-1926 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Chelsea Reel Club 1
Church of Scotland Overseas, Continent of Europe - France - Paris 1
Church of Scotland, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly 1
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Church of Scotland, World Mission and Unity Department 1
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Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
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Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1
Dares Phrygius 1
David and Alexander Deuchar and Co, Edinburgh, seal engravers 1
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Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Donn, Rob, poet, 1714-1778 1
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Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow, b 1926 1
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Educational Institue of Scotland, Henderson Memorial Library of Books on America 1
Edwards, Joseph, Editor of "Labour Annual", fl 1893-1904: recipient 1
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Fabian Society, think-tank 1
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Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
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Findlay, William, Minister of Saline, d 1917 1
Foss, Hugh Rose, 1902-1971 1
Fox, Colin, b. 1969 (politician) 1
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Fraser, Edward, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry, fl 1855-1860 1
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Geddes, David, deputy auditor of excise, father of Andrew, painter, d 1803 1
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