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3 letters to George Chalmers (from Joseph Ritson, Alexander Luders, and Christoph Friedrich Freudenreich) concerning the Bern manuscript of English and Scots laws, together with a calendar of the burgh laws and leges Scotie contained in it and a transcript of the memorandum on folio 61 verso.
Collection of rough notes or memoranda on various legal topics in the hand of Francis Jeffrey.
The notes, which are written on various gatherings of leaves, vary considerably in length, and some have additions of varying length in the margins, also in Jeffrey`s hand. Some of the notes appear to be incomplete.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.
Copy, 17th century, of the statutes of Christ`s College, Cambridge, 1506.
Correspondence and papers of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
Papers of and concerning Lord Boyd Orr.
Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.
Papers of Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb, Queen`s Counsel, including diaries, notes, correspondence, and manuscripts and corrected typescripts of unpublished works, lectures, addresses, memoranda and broadcast talks, with related printed items.
Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).
Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Records of the Edinburgh dining club, The Friday Club, formed in June 1803 and continued until 1850, prefaced by a long autograph memorandum by Lord Cockburn.
The volume contains accounts kept by John Richardson, original bills from taverns and hotels, and an incomplete series of the club's printed fixture-cards.
Records of the Scotts of Raeburn, collected and compiled by William Scott, the 6th Laird.
‘Some brief memorials and passages of church and staite for the yeires of God 1639-40-41’ in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.7.3.
‘Some short memoires and passages of staite from the 5 July this yeare 1650 to the 18 November this same yeire’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.7.7.
‘Some shorte memorials and passages of this yeare 1649’ in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.7.5.
‘Some shorte memories and passages of staite from 1650 to 1651’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.7.10.