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Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Correspondence of the painter Sir George Reid and transcripts of letters to Reid.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of Dudley W A Sommer concerning his researches towards, and the publication in May 1960 of, his ‘Haldane of Cloan his life and times 1856-1928’.
The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Dudley Sommer, with a few drafts and, from 1958, several copies in typescript carbon of his replies. A few transcripts of letters of J S Haldane sent to him during his researches are also enclosed.
Press cuttings containing reviews, some of which give rise to correspondence with reviewers and editors, are contained in the chronological sequence (chiefly May-July 1960).
Court book of the Barony of Calder Comitis, 1584-1601; with a modern transcript.
Criminal proceedings: a chronological collection of decisions by the High Court of Justiciary from 1693-1721.
Criminal proceedings: a transcript, circa 1809, made by direction of Thomas Thomson, then Deputy Clerk Register, of two volumes, November 1493 to August 1504 and January 1507 to July 1513, forming part of the original records of the High Court of Justiciary.
Criminal proceedings: an abstract, eighteenth century, of the `Books of Adjournal of the Court of Justiciary`, 1536-1665.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
‘Sinclair’s practiques’.
The volume consists of the same collection as in Adv.MS.24.1.4 in part. From the beginning to page 314 of this volume corresponding with the Pitmedden manuscript (Adv.MS.24.1.4(iii)), and from the beginning to page 272 of the third series of paging. After which the collection continues down to 1591.
Imperfect at the beginning.
Description of voyage to South Africa of Trooper Charles Hunter, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
Includes transcript of description. With letter and pocket book containg active service notes.
Diary of Elizabeth S Haldane.
The diary was written at intervals of varying length, ranging from a few days to some months, but most entries cover the period following the previous one.
The whereabouts of the first volume of the original diary are not known.
Diary of the Very Reverend Ronald Selby Wright, as Radio Padre and Chaplain to the Forces.
With a typed transcript and commentary.
Diary of William Gavin.
Recording his campaigns in South Africa, South America, and the Peninsular War, with photocopy of printed transcript, 1921.
Digital copies of letters of James, Robert and William Low, emigrants in the USA.
Digital copies in pdf format of ten letters, 1871 - 1884, of James, Robert and William Low of Forfar, emigrants in New Jersey, Texas and Chicago, with transcriptions of the letters in word and rich text format and family history notes in pdf format.
‘Diplomata Regia’: transcripts, 1754-1760, and undated, of the Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, made for Walter Macfarlane.
The transcripts extend from the earliest surviving rolls to Book 34; presumably Macfarlane`s intention was to continue the series to at least Book 59 (cf. his index, Adv.MS.35.1.8), but the absence of a title page in volume X suggests that it was the last completed.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Early 16th-century transcript of selected parts of the chartulary of Lindores Abbey.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
Eighteenth century transcripts of 34 letters of David Hume to Marie-Charlotte Hippolyte de Sanjou, Comtesse de Boufflers.
Includes transcripts of 11 letters of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Comtesse de Boufflers. The transcripts made with publication of an edition in view.
Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.
‘Excerpts from an "Inventary of Writs in the Charter house of Hamilton” Vol 2ᵈ. ...` in the hand of James Chalmers.
The excerpts were probably made for the benefit of James Chalmers` uncle, George Chalmers, in preparation for the third volume of the latter`s ‘Caledonia’.
The date of the manuscript has been suggested by the watermark of the sheets, 1812.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
Excerpts made in 1748 from the 14th-century register of the Abbey of Holme Cultram, Cumbria.
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).
‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.
A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.