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11 literary notebooks and other papers of Morley Jamieson.
20 notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
Literary and personal notes and the typescript of "Yet it shall be Tempest Tost", an account of an experiment with mescalin during the 1960s.
22 notebooks, 1942, containing the corrected manuscript of A J Cronin, "The Keys of the Kingdom".
With a copy of the novel inscribed by Cronin and a letter, 1950, of Cronin.
41 letters and documents, 1656-1667, mostly of General George Monck to Sir Thomas Morgan, Commander of the army in Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh.
Concern miltary arrangements.
With notebook, 1660, of Morgan as governor and later personal accounts, 1680s to 1690s.
Account books and other business records of T and T Clark, publishers, Edinburgh.
Anonymous illustrated notebook entitled `Anatomical Charts`.
This notebook is probably the work of a student of human anatomy or surgeon. There are 29 pages of drawings of human anatomy and related comments. Many of the drawings are coloured; some are tipped in. With some drawings of landscapes and botanical specimens.
The volume is bound in an original vellum binding with marbled endpapers.
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.
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.
Approximately 80 notebooks and files, 1973-2003 and undated, of Tessa Ransford, containing draft poetry and prose, literary notes and research, holiday diaries and other personal papers; with a few university notebooks, circa 1960.
A collection of XXX notebooks and several files of Tessa Ransford, relating mainly to her literary and creative life as a poet and writer. Also includes a few notebooks from her student days at Edinburgh University.
Arithmetic book of James Millar as a pupil in Kincardine, Fife.
Autograph notebook of poems, largely unpublished, by Sorley MacLean (1911-1996).
Autograph scores of original compositions and arrangements of William Bowie, organist and music teacher at the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
“Boyle’s justiciary note books. Circuit Courts”.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Climbing and photographic notebooks of Archibald Eneas Robertson.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Corrected typescript, 1974, of Naomi Mitchison, "Oil for the Highlands".
With a notebook, undated, entitled "Oil".
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Correspondence and other papers relating to the ‘Scottish Review’, which was published by Alexander Gardner, Paisley and London, 1882-1900, and edited by the Reverend William M Metcalfe, Minister of Paisley South Parish.
Correspondence and papers, 1980-1994, of David Morrison, mostly on literary matters.
Includes notebook, undated, of the Reverend James Lamont.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, with those of other members of his family, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Correspondence and papers, including sermons, lectures, diaries and photographs, of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian Adam Smith and their family.
The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).