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Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'
With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.
The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Corrections and additions by the first Earl of Cromer in an advance proof of a speech he afterwards delivered on Free Trade and Protection to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Unionist Free Trade Club on 10 January 1908.
Also included are three letters to the donor, James MacLehose, the Glasgow printer (including one from Lord Cromer accompanying the corrected proof), the final printed copy of the speech and the menu and toast list of the luncheon at which the speech was delivered.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, with those of other members of his family, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
Correspondence and papers chiefly relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus, in which Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1854) played an important part.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Baron Lynedoch, and of the Honourable Mary Cathcart, afterwards Mrs Graham, his wife.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Charles Roberts and the Scottish Historical Library.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence, articles, reports, and photographs of and concerning Duncan Macrae, with related theatre programmes, press cuttings and playscripts.
Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of and relating to James Robert Hope-Scott (1812-1873), of Abbotsford.
Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.
The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Correspondence of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning alteration specifications to the Advocates Library and accounts for the installation of heating apparatus.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Gathering d (pages 33-48) of the Kelmscott Press edition of ‘Syr Perecyvelle of Gales’ (London, 1895), printed on vellum.
There are illuminated borders of flowers, foliage and stylised ivy leaves in pink, blue, green and gold, in imitation of mediaeval work. A letter of Robert Steele to the donor, 1939, is inserted, which states that the illumination was done under the direction of William Morris.