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11 literary notebooks and other papers of Morley Jamieson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9160
Dates:
circa 1980-1984 and undated.
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.
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: Adv.MS.17.1.18
Scope and Contents
The memoirs give an account of the ‘manners and customs’ of the natives together with a vocabulary of the Marquesas language.
A short poem, not in Edward Robarts` hand, has been written in pencil on the back flyleaf.
Dates:
1824.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
File
Identifier: MS.2618
Scope and Contents
The principle items are as follows.Letter, undated, of Alexander Alesius, Professor of Theology at Leipzig, to a patron, thanking him for favours. (Folio 1.)'A briefe relacon of all such passages as happened dureing the Seidge of the Castle of Edinburgh' (of 1640), written by one of the garrison in reply to ‘A True representation of the proceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland’ by the Estates of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1640). An item torn from a manuscript book. (Folio...
Dates:
[1640, or after]-1866, undated.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates:
18th century.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents
Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Unpublished memoir, poems and bibliography of Gordon Jarvie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13261
Dates:
2011.