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Account book of William Tough, a general merchant in the Stirling area.
The account book contains notes of William Tough’s dealings with tradespeople, mostly in St Ninians, Sauchie and Stirling. There are also notes, undated, of expenditure on and income from a mill (folio 62).
Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Accounts of or relating to the family of Dun of Tarty in Aberdeenshire.
The accounts refer mostly to loans, rents, and bonds, but give a few instances of prices. Some appear to be the accounts of a factor or agent.
They start at both ends of a vellum-bound volume. Several leaves after folio 20 have been torn out. A modern note on the family is pasted on folio 21.
Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
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 of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Albums of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950.
Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Angus MacArthur’s manuscript of piobaireachd music.
This is the earliest known manuscript of pipe-music in which modern staff notation is used. It is now known as the Highland Society of London's manuscript and is described in Book I (1925) of the Piobaireachd Society's publications (page ii, number 2).
At the beginning of the volume is a note on the manuscript by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society (folio iii verso).
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.
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.
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
"Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle's writings and ana" by Isaac Watson Dyer (Portland, Maine, 1928), presented by the author to James A S Barrett, with pencil notes and other additions.
James A S Barrett contributed Section C (a list of the principal portraits, etc., of Carlyle, pages 533-542) to the work.
The volume contains Isaac Dyer's inscription to James Barrett, dated 1928, on the flyleaf, and pencil notes and amendments in Barrett's hand throughout. Press cuttings and a letter, 1930, of Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, doubtless to Barrett, which were loosely enclosed at various places within the volume, have been tipped in.
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Biographical notes on the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1789, collected by John Philp Wood, probably in connection with his biographies in Adv.MSS.37.2.2-37.2.4.
The notes are followed by extracts from the Balcarres Papers and notes on the Court of Session, undated; with an index and a note on the papers by John Philp Wood's daughter, Marion Wood, who arranged them, 1877 (folio 29).
A list of Advocates (folio 1) and an account of the Duke of Hamilton's duel with Lord Mohun (folio 25), found loose in the volume, have been pasted in.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
“Blair’s Collections”: Session papers of Robert Blair of Avonton, Lord President of the Court of Session.
Book of English and Scottish tunes; with a list of the contents, and remarks, by Davidson Cook, a previous owner of the manuscript.
Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.
Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon.
There are some notes and additions.