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15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Autograph album of an unknown collector, containing verses, drawings, and photographs.
The album contains poetry, prose extracts, drawings, painting, and photographs by various artists. Many of the entries relate to Edinburgh, including to Moray House.
Corrected typescripts of "Brand the Builder" by Tom Scott.
Includes artwork for the Ember Press edition of "Brand the Builder", and typescripts of other poems.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.
Dugald S MacColl, "Newdigate Prize Poem. The Fall of Carthage", with letter and sketch by the author.
Journal of J Ker, Surgeon in the Royal Navy.
The Naval log is illustrated by sketches of ships, scenery, antiquities, etc., and accompanied by several poems and a dissertation on the putrid fever of St Lucia (folio 27). The scenes and incidents described include the West Indies, 1778-1779; Denmark and Zetland, 1780; the loss of the ‘Royal George’, 1782; and the battle of Cape St Vincent.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.
Manuscript poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.
With associated photographs.
Microfilm of manuscript containing poems in Latin, apparently autograph, by Mark Alexander Boyd and later poems and personal information on members of the family of Boyd of Penkill and Trochrig.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
Miscellaneous purchases.
Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.
The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards;
detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.
The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.
Notebook of Elizabeth Hume.
Containing poems by Hume and others, sketches, and journal of a trip to England and Wales.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Papers of William Stuart Henry.
Including notebooks, sketches, poems, and correspondence concerning his work.
Poem of John MacTaggart.
Poem by John MacTaggart, brother of the painter William MacTaggart, on unrequited love.
A sketch of an old man with a lantern marked `Uncle Willie` is attached on the sheet.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.