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3 letters to George Chalmers (from Joseph Ritson, Alexander Luders, and Christoph Friedrich Freudenreich) concerning the Bern manuscript of English and Scots laws, together with a calendar of the burgh laws and leges Scotie contained in it and a transcript of the memorandum on folio 61 verso.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.11A
Dates:
1802.
21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12778
Dates:
circa 1693-1721
31 letters, 1822-1836, of Sir David Wilkie to Sir James Willoughby Gordon.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7901
Scope and Contents
Mostly on artistic matters.
With copies of three letters, 1828-1839, of Gordon to Wilkie, and an associated memorandum.
Dates:
1822-1839.
"A Skylight on the Past", copy of a typescript of letters and memoranda of the families of Pemberton in County Durham and Wallace in Nairn, compiled by Nisa Laing.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9986
Scope and Contents
Contains material concerning India and the First World War.
Dates:
1880-circa 1920.
Administrative Records of the Scottish Film Producers Association
Series
Identifier: MI.4/2
Dates:
1948-1950
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Dates:
1778-1961, undated.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
Catalogue of, and memorandum concerning imperfect books and books in the course of publication at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Series
Identifier: F.R.336/1-F.R.336/2
Dates:
1807-1816.
Christmas cards of Naomi Mitchison, with woodcuts of Gertrude Hermes and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.4845
Scope and Contents
With typescript and copy of memorandums on National Parks, Highland education and museums of Mitchison.
Dates:
circa 1940-circa 1969.
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1793-1794.
Collection of papers concerning supplies and men for the army in Scotland addressed to General Bland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13346
Scope and Contents
Papers concerning supplies and men for the army in Scotland addressed to General Bland, c.1747-1748.Having served under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden, General Bland was made commander-in-chief in Scotland in September 1747, and arrived in his Edinburgh command the following month. During this period, he has been criticized for his rigour in the ‘pacification’ of the Highlands. Bland had obtained in 1743 the sinecure governorship of Fort William, which he held...
Dates:
c. 1747-1748
Collection of rough notes or memoranda on various legal topics in the hand of Francis Jeffrey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.3.18
Scope and Contents
The notes, which are written on various gatherings of leaves, vary considerably in length, and some have additions of varying length in the margins, also in Jeffrey`s hand. Some of the notes appear to be incomplete.
Dates:
1821.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.35.6.4A-B
Scope and Contents
These volumes concern the local politics of Ross and Cromarty and Sutherland, the claims of the Earl of Sutherland on account of his exertions in opposing the Rebels, the means by which Sir John Gordon of Invergordon obtained the place of Secretary to the Principality, many documents concerning the Principality and Crown rents, and other matters apparently suggested to the writer by his connexion with Sir John Gordon.In both volumes, mixed up with private or local &...
Dates:
1748-1753.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.
Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
Scope and Contents
Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates:
1796, 1799.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Copy, 17th century, of the statutes of Christ`s College, Cambridge, 1506.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.4
Scope and Contents
The text is followed (folio 28) by an additional chapter in the form of question and answer: `Dubia quaedam per socios Collegij Christi ... suo visitatori proposita et per eundem declarata`. On folio 29, in another hand, are copies of a declaration by the Vice-Chancellor,Andrew Perne, 1581, a memorandum of Thomas Osborne`s admission to the college, 1581, and the finding of Lord Burghley in a dispute between Osborne and the college, 1584.The initial on folio 1 is...
Dates:
1506.
Correspondence and accounts of the Faculty of Advocates concerning publication and sales of Faculty Decisions.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/14
Dates:
1809-1837 undated
Correspondence and memoranda, chiefly of the ‘Ossian Committee’ of the Highland Society of Scotland in preparing the Ossian Report (1805).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.24
Scope and Contents
Also contains correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair in preparing ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. There are no Gaelic items. For a detailed listing see John Mackechnie.
Dates:
1797-[1805 or before.]
Correspondence and memoranda of John Philp Wood regarding his appointment, competence, pay, etc., as Auditor of the Excise.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3105-3106
Dates:
1802-1834, undated.
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.26
Dates:
1808-1820.
Correspondence and other material of the families of John Hill Burton and his parents-in-law, Cosmo Innes and Isabella Rose of Kilravock.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9983-9984
Dates:
1694-1882, undated.
Correspondence and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/46
Dates:
1824, 1832, 1846, 1896-1900.