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64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.
With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.
Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.
Album, compiled by a member of the Erskine family, containing sundry papers including one in hand of David Hume and papers of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Album containing copies of religious tracts, at least one of which is of John Livingstone, Minister of Ancrum, in the same hand as the 'Life' of Livingstone in Adv. MS.34.5.19.
Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
Album, containing 'Universal grammar...' written by James Trail, Minister of St Cyrus, and lecture notes on logic by his brother David Trail, Minister of Panbride.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Album of miscellaneous printed and manuscript matter.
The printed items are mostly newspaper cuttings, from the period circa 1780-circa 1830; they have not been indexed. The manuscript items, a list of which has been added at the beginning of the volume, are mostly Scottish, several relating to Bo`ness and Linlithgow, and date from 1562 to 1826. On folio 44 is a note signed `A.E.N.`
Album of Walter Bowman.
Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Four Scottish genealogical manuscripts.
Including, "The Genealogie of the Famalie of Ruthven" and "A Breviat of the Genealogie of ... the Leslies Earles of Rothes".
Friendship album in which are illustrated the likes and dislikes of various contributors.
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 manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Original manuscript, notes, corrections and insertions, of sir James Mackintosh, "Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy".
Papers and correspondence of literary figures.
Includes:
inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University
"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham
"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson
With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).
Papers concerning sea laws.
With manuscript and printed items.
Papers of James Lauder Davidson.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.
Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.
Works of John H Balfour Browne.
With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.