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20 notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10461
Scope and Contents
Literary and personal notes and the typescript of "Yet it shall be Tempest Tost", an account of an experiment with mescalin during the 1960s.
Dates:
1977-1990 and undated.
33 letters of Douglas Dunn to Douglas Houston.
File
Identifier: Acc.9903
Scope and Contents
Concerning literary and personal matters.
With corrected manuscript of an article, undated, by Dunn.
Dates:
1971-1987 and undated.
34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6839 Box 1(1)-Box 5
Dates:
1970-1974, undated.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Annotated offprints of four articles of Archibald Stalker.
File
Identifier: Acc.8597
Scope and Contents
Published in "The Quarterly Review" and the "Cornhill Magazine", concerning literary subjects.
Dates:
1919, 1940-1947.
Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
Item
Identifier: MS.9498
Scope and Contents
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Dates:
1890.
Article entitled 'Early Scottish history and its exponents' by Alexander Henry Rhind.
Item
Identifier: MS.8029
Scope and Contents
The article was originally contained in the ‘Retrospective Review’, volume i (1853), pages 273-291. It has been separately re-bound, with interleaves, and there are extensive alterations in the author's autograph on most of the printed pages and the interleaves.
Dates:
1853.
Article from 'Books and Bookplates', titled 'The Advocates' Library' by William Kirk Dickson.
Item
Identifier: F.R.146
Dates:
1904.
Articles, manuscripts and typescripts of papers on scientific subjects by Lord Kames, Prof John McLean Thompson, William Walker and others.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10073
Dates:
1781-1943 and undated.
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
File
Identifier: MS.16483
Scope and Contents
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Dates:
[1949], [1949, or after.]
Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.7
Scope and Contents
The articles in the volume are: an interleaved copy of the third edition of Fleming’s ‘Scottish Banking’ (Edinburgh, 1877); a reprint from ‘Blackwood`s Magazine’, volume 118 (June 1875), of his “Banking and Mr Goschen`s Bill”; `The Interview between Sir Stafford Northcote and the English Bankers` and `Extension of Scottish Banks into England` from “Bankers` Magazine”, volume 36 (July 1876). Pasted in amongst the binder`s blank endpapers are a collection of press-cuttings,...
Dates:
1875-1877.
Climbing diaries and articles on mountaineering of Alexander Cunninghame Douglas Small, Schoolmaster and climber.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13368
Dates:
1932-1944, undated
Collection of holograph manuscripts of authors of the early 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.812-816
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Copies, 1636-1637, of documents and notes of Sir James Balfour on ecclesiastical history.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.32
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.4.16.The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies of commissions, 1626, passing under the great seal (page 1);
(ii) Several proclamations, 1626 (page 13);
(iii) Names of the Sheriffs, Stewards, and Bailies of Scotland, 1606 (page 24);
(iv) Articles and other documents concerning the commission anent tiends (page 28);
(v) Documents connected with the introduction of the Service Book, 1637,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Copies of critical and bibliographical articles of J Randolph Cox.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6524
Scope and Contents
Concerning John Buchan.
Dates:
1966-1969.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents
On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows:
(i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3);
(ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4);
(iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11);
(iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates:
1546-Late 16th century.
Copies of papers of L L Ardern.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9693
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes and printed articles.
Dates:
1953-1969 and undated.
Copies of photographs of the Anderson family in the Falkland Islands and Patagonia, with biographical material relating to George Anderson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9031
Scope and Contents
George Anderson (1865-1925) emigrated to the Falkland Islands in 1884 with a five-year contract to work as a shepherd. In 1891 he formed a company with four other Scottish shepherds to start a sheep farm in Patagonia, Argentina. It took George nearly eight years to find suitable land in this remote region. Eventually, in 1898 after several unsuccessful expeditions and many privations, he found a place near Cape Watchman.Although life in Patagonia was isolated and sometimes...
Dates:
1884-circa 1920, undated.
Copy-book and Latin exercises written by John, Robert and William Scott of Gilmanscleuch.
File
Identifier: MS.5068
Scope and Contents
Comments on the manuscript by Sir J A H Murray are interspersed throughout the volume. Also included is his article, 'Concerning an old copy-book', in 'Leisure Hour', 1 January 1871.
Dates:
1629-1632, [1871, or before].
Copy in 5 volumes of corrected typescripts of journalism and broadcasts of Janet Teissier du Cros (nee Grierson); with copy of unpublished family memoir by Molly Dickins (nee Grierson).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13802
Dates:
Circa 1952-1980.
Copy of an article entitled, "The Young Scots Society: a Lost Liberal Legion", by R Ian Elder.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12097
Dates:
2001.
Copy of Orlo Williams, "The Evacuation of the Dardanelles".
File
Identifier: Acc.1700
Scope and Contents
Article published in the National Review, includes letter and marginalia of Major-General Granville-Egerton.
Dates:
circa 1946.
Copy of Stair`s ‘Institutions of the Law of Scotland’, written in or about 1662.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.1.14
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement is the same as that of the first printed edition of 1681 (except that Titles 18 and 19 appear in reverse order) but the text is generally shorter and illustrated with references to earlier case-decisions, and most of the titles are divided into fewer paragraphs. According to a note inside the front cover, dated Perth, 4th August 1731, this copy was written by Sir Alexander Falconer, Lord Halkerton, in his own hand.The lists of paragraphs have been omitted...
Dates:
Circa 1662.