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Corrected full score of 'Thomas the Rhymer', an opera in four acts by David Johnson.
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.
Dialogue ‘De Oratoribus’, variously ascribed to Tacitus and to Quintilian, being pages 1183-1212 of a printed work, 'cum conjectures MS. D. Al. Cunninghamij [Alexander Cunningham], Hagae Comitum conscriptis vel potius collatis cum MS’.
The manuscript notes are all textual emendations.
First edition of Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" (1981) with annotations in the hand of the author.
Manuscript annotations to the text on pages 490, 491, 538, 539 and 545 were intended by Gray to be included in new editions of the novel.
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.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
General Order Book of the Fife Regiment of Militia containing printed and manuscript War Office circulars addressed to the commanding officer of the regiment.
Several of the circulars are signed by Viscount Palmerston as Secretary-at-War, and Viscount Sidmouth as Home Secretary.
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.