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Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Corrected typescript of ‘Sir Walter Scott and his wife: the happy marriage and the mystery’ by Elisabeth Anthony Dexter.
At the end is a genealogical table of the Scott family.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
'Genealogie of the family of Achinbreck' (Campbell): a typewritten copy of a manuscript, 1741, in Adv.MS.34.6.19 (Genealogical collections), with autograph notes and corrections by Herbert Campbell, Cyprus, circa 1932.
Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
Notes and drafts by Harry Pirie-Gordon of Buthlaw on the history of Dumbarton Castle, Celtic rulers of Strathclyde, and other topics in Highland history and genealogy.
Papers concerning William Marshall and Brodie Cruickshank.
Including typescript of Pierluigi Valsecchi`s theses, 1979, concerning Cruickshank.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
"Recollections of the Keith Johnstons" by Grace Keith Johnston, covering 1804-1893.
Original typescript in two volumes.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Typescript 'Collected details re the Alston family (Scottish Branch)', compiled by Patrick R Alston, together with letters on the subject.
The compiler attempts to trace the history of the Saxon family of Alston from its first appearance in Scotland, before 1399. His collection, which deals mainly with Alstons of the seventeenth to nineteenth century, consists for the most part of extracts from Lionel Cresswell, ‘Stemmata Alstoniana’, 1905, other printed sources, and official records.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1786, of Clarinda Bruce on a journey to India.
With associated correspondence and a typescript account, 20th century, of the family of Alexander P Trotter.
Typescript history of the family of Macdonell of Tomintoul and Aberdeen.
Typescript of "A MacLeod Family in Easter Ross during the 19th Century".
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.
Typescript of "The Legend and Genealogical Chart of St Margaret" by Imre Kish.
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.