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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Anonymous manuscript account of the Battle of Culloden and subsequent events.
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`.
Conclusion of Sir John Sinclair’s Ossianic correspondence (1821-1830).
Contemporary copies of correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Smith, mostly concerning the proposed marriage of Queen Elizabeth with the Duc d`Anjou (later Henri III) and the Duc d`Alençon.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland.
Folio volume reporting `The proceidings of the Generall assemblie at Glasgow November 21. 1638`, in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Transactions of all 27 sessions of the Assembly from 21 November to 20 December are recorded in greater detail than the summary in Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland` (cf. his ‘Historical Works’, volume 2, pages 301-316), but less fully than in Robert Wodrow`s report of the proceedings printed in ‘Records of the Kirk of Scotland’, volume 1, pages 128-193.
`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.
At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.
Jacobite papers deriving from W B Blaikie`s collection.
Including:
manuscript draft report, circa 1745, on Sir John Cope`s military operations
manuscript verses, 1745, on Gladsmuir
"A Chronological Table of Military Operations in Great Britain, 1745-1746".
Lists of manuscripts belonging to Sir Robert Sibbald and others.
Manuscript entitled "A Large Description of Galloway by the Parishes in it" compiled by Andrew Symson.
May have been for the use of Sir Robert Sibbald in his "Statistical Atlas of Scotland".
Microfilm of chiefly dispatches of Rear-Admiral Sir George Cockburn on operations against Washington, and papers concerning the destruction of shipping off the American coast.
Papers, including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of sermons, lectures, reviews, and reports, of the Reverend Prof John Foster.
Papers of and concerning the poet and author, Ruthven Todd (1914-1978).
These papers are composite manuscripts formed from various accessions. The source of acquisition of each of the accessions is recorded under the relevant description
Papers of Arthur Woodburn.
Concerning his Parliamentary Bill to facilitate the formation of a common European language.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Papers of the Rev Dr Robert Craig, Principal of the University of Rhodesia.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of speeches and reports.