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Papers, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles and reviews, of Robert Nye; with manuscript and typescript drafts of the anthologies, 'The English sermon, 1750-1850' (1976), and 'The faber book of sonnets' (1976), edited by Nye, with associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6885 Box 1(1)-Box 3(5)
Dates:
Circa 1963-1976, undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of and concerning the Library of the Kirk of Saltoun.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9270/1-42
Scope and Contents
Includes:
18 volumes of sermons
three volumes of library catalogue
papers concerning the management of the Library and of the affairs of the parish.
Dates:
17th century to 20th century.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of Donald Caskie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8846
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs, press cuttings and sermons.
Dates:
1935-1974.
Papers of Dr Kenneth Macleod.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9927
Scope and Contents
Includes songs, poems, sermons and correspondence.
Dates:
1906-1955.
Papers of Ronald Selby Wright.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11296
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, sermons, photographs, diaries and press cuttings.
Dates:
circa 1930-1994.
Papers of Scottish interest, collected by R R Gove-Brown-Henderson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4378
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. letter, 1833, of Sir John Sinclair, on shell marle as manure2. rental, 1782, of the estate of Wattin, Caithness3. printed price list and two invoices, 1849, of Peter Lawson and Son4. list, 19th century, of seeds5. copy (in the hand of the donor) of letter, 1821, of William Stewart, on a new road in Caithness6. printed programme, 1887, of the Royal Naval Review at Spithead7. note book, late 17th...
Dates:
late 17th century to 19th century.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.328- is now Acc.13138.
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2933-2953
Dates:
1540-1851.
Papers of the Reverend James Cumming.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5931
Scope and Contents
Including diaries, sermons, and lectures, with a genealogical tree showing the family of the Reverend Prof David Cairns and his connection with Cumming.
Dates:
1853-1892.
Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9251
Scope and Contents
Includes sermons, lectures, notes for published works, correspondence, pastoral notebooks and diaries.
Dates:
1926-1985.
Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11175
Scope and Contents
Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.
Dates:
1948-1974 and undated.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Dates:
15th century-1814.
Poems and a mock sermon (on marriage) in the hand of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer.
File
Identifier: MS.17895
Scope and Contents
Various dates between 1743 and 1757 occur.
Dates:
1743-1757.
Prayers, sermons, addresses and lectures of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8095/1-40
Dates:
1924-1976, undated.
'Preaching Book', apparently the property of Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock.
Item
Identifier: MS.1759
Scope and Contents
The volume contains notes of sermons preached in various Edinburgh churches late in 1659 and in 1660.
Dates:
1659-1660.
Preaching-book of John of Grimestone, a Franciscan friar from Norfolk.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.21
Scope and Contents
The sermon topics are arranged alphabetically, with an index at the beginning (folios 7-9); the heading and number of each is repeated at the top of each page. The last three in the index (numbers 141-143, De Vsura, De Vita, De Veste) are missing from the text. The topics are predominantly in Latin, a very few in French, and consist of quotations (from the Bible, classical authors, especially Cicero and Seneca, the Fathers, and medieval authors) and moral tales and happenings. Interspersed...
Dates:
1372.
Presbyterian sermon on Joel, ii, 15, calling for a fast and for repentance for the sins of Scotland, probably of the early eighteenth century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3808
Dates:
?Early 18th century.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Dates:
1648-20th century.
Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".
Item
Identifier: MS.3008
Scope and Contents
The items are numbered, and there is a list of contents at the beginning and end.Most of the letters, which cover the period 1721-1781, with a few of 1707, are addressed by Archibald Napier of Bowhopple, Minister of Kilmadock, the transcriber's grandfather (see number 61), and his son, Thomas Napier of Greenhill, watchmaker in Glasgow, to Archibald Napier, apothecary in Edinburgh, and other members of the family. There are also copies of letters of other writers, hymns, sermons,...
Dates:
1707, 1721-1781.
Sermon of the Reverend David M Beckett preached at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10197
Scope and Contents
Makes reference to the life and work of Thomas Guthrie.
Dates:
1990.
Sermon on John III, 29-30, "Jesus Christ the Bridegroom".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7178
Dates:
late 17th century.