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Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates:
1893-1938
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Further papers of George Anderson and family.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14123
Scope and Contents
Photographic negatives and ledger book of George Anderson, Scottish emigrant and sheep farmer.
Dates:
1880-1924.
‘Historia de la decendencia de los Ponces de Cabrera y Leon Duques de Arcos, recopilada de diverses y graues auctores y de escrituras y privilegios de archivos por Fray Bernardo Cardillo Villalalpando, monge Cisterciense en el insigne monasterio de Nogales, y coronista de la Arden.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.4
Dates:
[Circa 1619.]
"Los Emigrados de Encocia", a play in Spanish, possibly from Mexico.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9463
Dates:
circa 1820.
Printed circular of James Skene of Rubislaw, "Monumento a Walter Scott".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9718
Scope and Contents
An appeal in Spanish to erect a monument to Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1832.