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Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Dates:
1778-1961, undated.
Bābar-nāmah, being memoirs of the Emperor Ẓahîr al-Dîn Muḥammad Bâbar in the original Turkî.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.18
Dates:
16th century.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin, and George Robert Gleig, author of ‘The Subaltern’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3869-3872
Scope and Contents
Also included is some correspondence of Sir Henry George Ward, a connection of Henry J S Bailey's family, and of Bailey himself.
Dates:
1787-1927, undated.
‘Crawfurd’s genealogical collections’, containing memoirs and scattered notes of families by George Crawfurd, in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.8
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Fair copy of the text printed as ‘Memoirs of the secret services of John Macky’, without the introduction.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.6
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Genealogical material relating to various families in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.5
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Manuscript of 'George Scott Moncrieff and a few friends: a brief memoir' by Morley Jamieson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26974-26976
Scope and Contents
The memoir was not published, but twenty copies were circulated in typescript.
Dates:
[1987.]
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Manuscripts of two apparently unpublished genealogical works by John Philp Wood.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5271-5272
Dates:
1830.
Material connected with the ‘Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, Knt., Engraver ... and of his brother-in-law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes’, by James Dennistoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2898-2902
Dates:
1836-1855, undated.
“Memoir of the military state of North Britain in 1803, By Colonel Alex : Dirom, Deputy Quarter Master General of His Majesty’s Forces in North Britain, F.R.S., London and Edin.”
Item
Identifier: MS.1754
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a description of the state of Scottish defences, with criticisms, and suggestions for improvements in the possibility of invasion.
Dates:
1803.
‘Memoirs’ by James Erskine, Lord Grange.
Item
Identifier: MS.1008
Scope and Contents
The memoirs consist chiefly of religious communings, but contain some mention of the writer, James Erskine's temporal activities, particularly in connection with the Jacobite movement and his brother, the Earl of Mar.
Dates:
3 May 1726-30 January 1727.
Memoirs, compiled ?1905-?1907, of John M'Kie, Fleet Engineer (circa 1820-1915).
Series
Identifier: MSS.24632-24636
Scope and Contents
The memoirs were written by John M'Kie for his son, Dr Norman J M'Kie, and cover the period from his early life to about 1870. The son of a tenant farmer in Kirkcudbrightshire, he took up engineering and worked in Dundee, Liverpool and Crewe before joining the navy in 1847. He served in HMS Rattler, suppressing the West African slave trade, and in the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert', before being appointed Chief Engineer in HMS Hawke on the Irish coastguard service in 1855. He later served...
Dates:
?1905-?1907.
Memoirs of John Brand, Minister of Borrowstounness.
Item
Identifier: MS.1668
Scope and Contents
The memoirs, which are chiefly based on John Brand's diary, begin in 1669, the year of his birth, and continue to 1727, ten years before his death, with a gap from 1711 to 1714, for which period he says that he can find no diary. He describes his young days at the College of Edinburgh; his employment as a tutor after his graduation as Master of Arts; his appointment to Bo'ness; and his life after his marriage. The memoirs are chiefly of a personal interest since they were written for the...
Dates:
1669-1727.
‘Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott’ by William Dalgleish, Scott’s butler.
Item
Identifier: MS.5199
Dates:
1822-1829.
'Memoirs of the family of Grant. Written in the year 1752', being a history and genealogy of the Grants of Grant and several of their principal cadets.
Item
Identifier: MS.10970
Scope and Contents
The text was compiled in 1752, but has additions up to 1773, and is written on paper watermarked 1811. The manuscript may originally have been compiled by William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, the account of whose life is unusually detailed (folio 48) and whose Hanoverian politics are reflected in the account of some eighteenth-century Grants (for example folio 43).
Dates:
1752-1773.
Microfilm of copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1110
Dates:
1675-early 18th century.
Microfilm of material concerning Tipu Sultan.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.784-785
Dates:
1574-1923.
Microfilm of memoir and journal of a tour to Italy of Charlotte Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1245
Dates:
1789-1800.
Microfilm of memoirs by John Y Gray, Sir Alexander Gray's father, of his family in Angus, titled, 'My Kith and Kin', with later additions.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1105
Dates:
[Circa 1916.]
Microfilm of 'Memoirs of Alexander Dalrymple, Esq., FRS, Hydrographer to the Admiralty and the Hon. the East India Company', anonymous, written after Dalrymple's death in 1808.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.894
Dates:
1808.
Microfilm of memoirs of Edward Robarts, an ordinary seaman, describing his travels and adventures in the South Seas from 1797 to 1824, particularly his seven year stay on the Marquesas Islands.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.222
Dates:
1824.
Microfilm of miscellaneous account books and copy of ‘An Account of the Lord’s Gracious dealing with me; and of his remarkable hearing and answering my supplications’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1046
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
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 (Adv.MS.34.6.22), 41 frames;Account book of the Sutherland estates (Dep.313/502), 121 frames;Account book of the Sutherland estates (Dep.313/503)...
Dates:
1650-1693, ?1711.