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Microfilm of collections of canntaireachd and piobaireachd.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.887
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Canntaireachd: articulate music’ by John Francis Campbell (Glasgow, 1880), with manuscript notes, [1880, or after], by Alexander K Cameron (MS.9614);
"Collection of piobaireachd or pipe tunes as verbally taught by the M'Crummen Pipers" by Neil MacLeod (Edinburgh, 1880), with manuscript corrections by Simon Fraser, and other notes by Alexander K Cameron, [1880, or after] (MS.9615).
Dates:
1880, [1880, or after].
Microfilm of 'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.810
Dates:
1757.
Microfilm of 'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.918
Dates:
1757.
Microfilm of John Philp Wood’s frequently annotated copy of ‘A view of the political state of Scotland at the late General Election’ (Edinburgh, 1790), containing his signature dated 1790 at the half-title page, amendments and notes, mainly of deaths of electors, and names of later electors added in the margins and on the endpapers, with various dates from 1790 to 1804.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.530
Dates:
1790.
Microfilm of ‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 24: ‘Novels and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume VI. Peveril of the peak [continued and] Quentin Durward [part only]’ (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. 1824); interleaved with the author’s annotations, corrections and additions, 1828-1831.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1829
Dates:
1824, 1828-1831
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132-1133
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944].
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].
Microfilm of ‘Re-collections of an Indian Civilian’ by Francis Jeffrey Cockburn (London, 1906).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2028
Dates:
1906.
Microfilm of ‘The Earl of Gowrie: a tragedy’ (London, 1845) by James White; with considerable manuscript alterations, circa 1846, by the author.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.328
Dates:
1845, [?1846].
Microfilm of 'Walk across Africa’ (Edinburgh and London, 1864), by James Augustus Grant.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.554
Dates:
1864.
Microfilms of the ‘Earnock manuscripts’ containing correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1019-1020
Dates:
[1797-1819.]