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15 letters and cards of Annie French to Elinor Black.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8792
Scope and Contents

With an account by Dr Black of their meeting.

Dates: 1938-1952.

41 letters and documents, 1656-1667, mostly of General George Monck to Sir Thomas Morgan, Commander of the army in Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10583
Scope and Contents

Concern miltary arrangements.

With notebook, 1660, of Morgan as governor and later personal accounts, 1680s to 1690s.

Dates: 1656-circa 1699.

Account of "An Adventure with Bengal Dacoits" by Samuel Wauchope.

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Identifier: Acc.10654
Scope and Contents

With seven photographs.

Dates: 1850.

"An Account of the Action off the Little Fisher Bank [the Battle of Jutland] May 31st 1916" by the Reverend R H Malden, Chaplain, Royal Navy on HMS Valiant.

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Identifier: Acc.11023
Scope and Contents

Includes related letter to Mrs Simpson, Abbotsknowe, Peebles, and a privately printed memoir of "The Battle of Jutland" (Leeds, 1918).

Dates: circa 1918.

"Autobiographical Reminiscences".

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Identifier: Acc.3252
Scope and Contents

Includes "Houses of Bondage", "Sketches from the Student Life of a Vanished Generation", "The Riddle of a Crime".

Dates: circa 1960.

Autograph manuscripts of dramas and other works of Sir David Erskine.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.5.1.16-5.1.21
Scope and Contents

The majority of the works are unpublished, and those which are published present considerable divergences. All the plays were written for the stage, and in some cases the names of the actors appear in the list of dramatis personae. Adv.MS.5.1.16, (i) and (ii) seem to be unconnected with the remainder of the collection.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Biographical memoir and notes on Charles Hodge Mackie, compiled by Anne Mackie.

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Identifier: Acc.9177
Scope and Contents

Includes an account of their visits to France, 1892-1893, and meetings with Gauguin, Sérusier and Vuillard.

Dates: 1st half of 20th century.

Biography of John Elphinstone, RN, including his role in the Russian service, by his grandson, Alexander Francis Elphinstone, RN.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12747
Scope and Contents

Comprising a 39-page memoir of Alexander Francis Elphinstone's grandfather, John Elphinstone, arranged by date, with geneaological notes. The volume also includes 9 pen and ink sketches and watercolours of buildings and scenery, probably depicting locations from Alexander Francis Elphinstone's early years in the Baltic.

Dates: c.1820s.

Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.4
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Letters, 1675-1677, of the preacher John Welwood. They are mostly addressed to Elizabeth Collace and her sister Katharine Ross, but there are also a few to the covenanter Richard Cameron. The letters, which are not in strict chronological order, are chiefly religious in nature, but there are occasional mentions of the persecutions in Fife, the Merse and Teviotdale. (Folio 1.)(ii) Memoirs of Katharine Ross. The...
Dates: 1675-early 18th century.

Copy, late 17th or early 18th century, of the memoirs of James Fraser of Brea, minister of Culross.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.11
Scope and Contents

This copy begins with the author`s preface, omitting the letter of dedication to Thomas Ross, and breaks off at the end of chapter 8. It contains a small amount of biographical material which does not appear in the published version.

The name William Lindsay, Letham, Dunnichen, appears on folio 1.

Dates: Late 17th century.

Copy of ‘An Account of the Lord`s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications` , being the religious memoirs of Mrs Marion Veitch, wife of William Veitch, minister of Dumfries, written apparently in or about 1711, the date of the latest events recorded.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.22
Scope and Contents

This copy, one of three known, which was written in a near-contemporary hand, appears to have lost all after page 74: the remainder is supplied on different sheets written in an apparently late 18th-century hand.

Dates: 1711, or after.

Copy of James Loch, "Memoir of George Granville, late Duke of Sutherland" (1834).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8475
Scope and Contents

With papers and letters, 1832-1833, mostly concerning the erection of memorials to the Duke.

Dates: 1832-1834.

Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates: Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.

Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.17
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A copy, in a hand of the late 17th century, of the `Memoirs` of Walter Pringle (folio 1). These were first published in 1723 from a copy of the original manuscript by James Pringle of Greenknowe, 1684. The relationship of the present manuscript to that copy is unknown.(ii) A detached leaf, headed Section XIX and paginated 81-82, concerning the history of Clan Chattan (folio 35). Written in a small late 17th-century...
Dates: 2nd half of 17th century.

Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.

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Identifier: Acc.12887
Scope and Contents

Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.

Dates: circa 2007.

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Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 6
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 2
Macneill, Hector, poet, 1746-1818 2
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Anderson, Ann, nurse in Australia, 1833-1906 1
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Anderson, George, indigo planter at Kumtoul in Tirhoot Behar, India, 1817-1893 1
Annunzio, Gabriele d', poet, 1863-1938 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 52nd (Lowland) Division 1
Baker, Patricia, National Library of Scotland, fl 1930-1985 1
Band, David, Crail, seaman, fl 1809 1
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Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Berry, R J A , medical practitioner, Bristol, fl 1961 1
Black, Elinor F E, President of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, 1905-1982 1
Black, Elinor F E, President of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, 1905-1982: recipient 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bogie, David Wilson, Sheriff, 1946-1999 1
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Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1
Brown, W D, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, fl 1942-1943 1
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Bury, Charlotte Susan Maria, Lady (novelist, née Campbell, then Campbell) (1775-1861) 1
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Church of Scotland, Blantyre Mission, Malawi 1
Cleland, W L, Medindie Gardens, Australia, fl 1989 1
Cleland, William, Lieutenant-Colonel, poet, d 1689 1
Cook, John Manuel, Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Bristol, 1910-1994 1
Coutts, Francis Henderson, Brigadier, 1918-2008 1
Cowan, family 1
Crabbe, Sir John Gordon, Knight, Colonel, 1892-1961 1
Crabbie, Donald, Lieutenant, Royal Navy, d 2001 1
Craig, William Marshall, chartered accountant, fl 1917-1923 1
Craw, W A, Southampton, fl 1920-1986 1
Crawford, Lawrence, Parliamentary Major-General, 1611-1645 1
Crocket, James, gardener, fl 1935 1
Crow, W R, Sergeant, Indian Command, Royal Air Force, fl 1944 1
Crow, Walter S, Sergeant, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, d c 1978 1
Curran, Henry, author of memoir "Interrupted Odyssey", 1926-2008 1
Dalrymple, Sir Hew Whitefoord, 1st Baronet, General, 1750-1830 1
Daniel, Cecil C, Captain, Royal Scots, fl 1899-1901 1
Davidson, Richard, India, tea-planter, fl 1930 1
Denham, Sir James Steuart, 3rd Baronet, of Coltness and Westshield, economist, formerly Steuart, 1713-1780 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Dick, James Adam, Colonel, 1866-1942 1
Douglas, David, bookseller, 1823-1916 1
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Fraser, Donald, politician, 1904-1956 1
Fraser, Eileen Lucy, wife of George Sutherland, poet and critic, née Andrew, b 1918 1
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Gillespie, James, associate of George Friel, novelist, fl 1926-1985 1
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Gilray, John, Edinburgh, socialist, fl 1884-1909 1
Gower, George Granville Leveson, 1st Duke of Sutherland, 1758-1833 1
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Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981: recipient 1
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Haldane, Thomas Graeme Nelson, scientist, 1897-1981 1
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Hastie, John, father of William, Minister of Slamannan, fl 1670-1700 1
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Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 1
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Kaye, Florence R S, emigrant to United States, b c 1922 1
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Lindsay, James, 24th Earl of Crawford and 7th Earl of Balcarres, 1783-1869 1
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