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‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
"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.
Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.
Copy of ‘Hamewith’ (London, 1910) by Charles Murray, enclosing a letter of Murray to the publisher William Fordie Forrester concerning a publishing agreement with Constable.
There are transcripts by William Fordie Forrester of Charles Murray's poems "It wasna his wyte" and "The Thraws o' Fate" on the endpapers.
Copy of John MacDougall Hay's poetic work ‘Their dead sons’ (London, 1918), with a presentation inscription to James McIntyre.
A covering letter to James McIntyre is inserted.
Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
Copy of ‘Underwoods’ (London, 1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson, with two letters of Stevenson to Sir Herbert Maxwell, 1894, inserted.
Two other letters to Sir Herbert Maxwell dated 1916 and 1929 are also inserted.
Corrected copy of ‘Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society’ by Samuel Smiles (London, 1876), containing a letter from Edward, 1876, and one from his daughter Frances, 1877, both to the author.
The text has numerous minor corrections nearly all amending the technical Latin.
Corrections and additions to ‘Letters and recollections of Sir Walter Scott' (London, 1904) by Mary Anne Hughes, from a collation with the originals in the possession of Messrs W Heffer & Sons, Ltd, Cambridge.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Four letters, 1828-1829, 1832, of Thomas Campbell, bound with a copy of his ‘Inaugural discourse ... on being installed Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow’ (Glasgow, 1827).
There are also two portraits of Thomas Campbell.
Grangerized copy of ‘A large new catalogue of the Bishops of...Scotland’ by Robert Keith (Edinburgh, 1755).
The volume contains additional notes and information (taken chiefly from the Acts of the General Assembly) written in a contemporary hand in the margins of many of the pages and on small sheets of paper tipped in at various places throughout.
Also enclosed are a printed prospectus of the work, dated Edinburgh, 1753, receipted by the author (folio 3), and a letter, 1925, returning the volume to its owner.
Inscribed presentation copy of ‘Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy: or Passages in the life of a hydropathist, by a Veteran’ by Thomas Dundas, (London, 1847) with a letter from Dundas to W T Bree, 1847, tipped in.
‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.
A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Letter and corrected carbon typescripts of six poems by Alastair Reid; with an inscribed copy of "Oddments, inklings, omens, moments: poems" (Boston, 1959).
Letter of Catherine Carswell to Edwin Muir in a copy of ‘The green ship’ (London, 1936) by Patrick Miller.
Catherine Carswell identifies Patrick Miller as her brother, Gordon Macfarlane, and writes about her work and other activities. The book is signed by Miller and the artist Eric Gill.
Letter of Francis Jeffrey to Lady Holland presenting a copy of the first volume of his ‘Contributions to the Edinburgh review’ (London, 1844).
Letters and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.
David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.
Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson.
Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Letters written by John Williams, mineral engineer, to the Earl of Buchan, bound at the end of Williams’ 'An account of some remarkable ancient ruins lately discovered in the Highlands .. .in a series of letters' (Edinburgh, 1777).
With notes on John Williams by the Earl of Buchan, and a modern transcript of a fourteenth 'letter' not printed in the book.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.