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Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Autograph collection, chiefly of the late nineteenth century.
The correspondents include politicians, artists and figures from the medical and theatrical professions. It probably belonged to Jean Lang, née Blaikie, to whom many of the letters are addressed, but a substantial amount of the correspondence is to William Miller, Member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and the physician, Sir Thomas Lauder-Brunton.
Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert, mostly from the publisher John Murray.
Autograph collection of W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, containing letters of political, literary, and other figures.
A number of the letters are addressed to Alexander Adam, rector of Edinburgh High School, and others to David Dickson, master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. There is a small group of naval autographs, 1746-1813 (folio 267) and a manuscript periodical, 'The Glencorse Advertiser', for July 1840 (folio 281).
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Autograph letters of David Livingstone to various correspondents.
Autograph letters to Charles Lawson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from eminent persons in professional, civil and commercial life, being replies to invitations and other letters.
Autograph manuscript of a French biography of Sir David Wilkie by the art historian, Baron Félix Sébastien Feuillet de Conches (1798-1887).
The work is undated and apparently unpublished.
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Three Scottish songs' arranged for voices, strings, piano and timpani by Gordon Jacob.
Autograph manuscripts of three apparently unpublished poems by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Autograph musical scores of David Dorward containing sketches and some final versions of works for various combinations of instruments, including voices.
Two of the pieces are dated 1961 and 1967. The remainder, though undated, appear to have been written at about the same period.
Autograph score, 1953, of ‘Sonata for violoncello and piano’ by Hans Gál.
The score bears a few corrections, one of which is written on a scrap of paper (folio 13) pasted to folio 14. Folio 15 consists of two leaves pasted together.
Autograph score of 'Quintet No 1' for pianoforte and strings by Cyril Scott.
Apparently unpublished, this is not the ‘Quintet’ published, 1926, as part of the Carnegie collection of British Music.
A leaf is cut out after folio 6 and a few more after folios 49.
Autograph score of the overture “Tam o' Shanter”, Opus 51, by Malcolm Arnold, bearing several marks from use in performance.
Autograph score of 'Three Songs of Night' for baritone and strings, composed by Leon Coates from ‘Pomes Penyeach’ by James Joyce, for the Music Society of St Peter's College, Oxford.
Autograph score of 'Two invocations for tenor and piano', opus 25, by John Joubert, with amendments in coloured inks.
Settings of 'To winter' (folio 2) and 'To spring' (folio 9) by William Blake.
The work was published in 1960 and received its Scottish premiere at the National Library of Scotland, 28 August 1969.
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Autograph scores of orchestral works by William Wordsworth.
Autograph scores of original compositions and arrangements of William Bowie, organist and music teacher at the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Autograph second draft with alterations and additions of short score of Concerto for String Orchestra, opus 39, by Kenneth Leighton, when Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Autograph sermons, apparently unpublished, of Hugh Anderson of Udol, Presbyterian minister of Cromarty.
Most of the sermons are undated, but one is written on the back of a letter of 1702, another is of 1662, and two others of 1666. These last refer to the plague in England, while another was used as a 'presbyterial exercise'.
The papers also includes a summons, ?1662, ordering Hugh Anderson to answer charges before the Bishop of Ross.
Autograph settings by Robin Orr of “The Kimmers o' Cougate” and Three Songs of Innocence by William Blake.
Autograph version, apparently unpublished, of 'Peebles to the Play' by James Ballantine.
The manuscript does not appear to have been published. However, a version of the poem was prepared for the inauguration of the Chambers' Institution, Peebles, 1859.