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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.

Miscellaneous manuscripts.

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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.

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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.

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.