Bookplates.
Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks) collected anonymously.
The first two leaves seem to belong to the end.
'Domestic manners and private life of Sir Walter Scott’ by James Hogg (Glasgow, 1834), containing a brief note from Scott to James Ballantyne, 1824, and an undated note from Hogg to Robert Boyd.
Envelope containing circa 25 Derby Owner badgers and Durdans bookplates., Undated.
Excerpts, in a nineteenth century hand, from the 'Appendix To the Memoirs of Dr Alexander Carlyle of Inveresk' ... 'Being the proceedings before the Church Courts against him for attending the representation of the Tragedy of Douglas [by John Home] in 1757'., 1757.
The contents consists almost entirely of excerpts from the proceedings of the Presbytery of Dalkeith. The excerpts are written on the rectos of the leaves, with additions, and some headings, written in another nineteenth-century hand on some of the versos. A leaf containing an excerpt in a hand wrongly ascribed to Sir Walter Scott which was formerly loosely enclosed is tipped in after folio 108.
Further papers of the Douglas of Cavers family.
Annotated envelopes containing hair of members of the Douglas and Malcolm families and book plates of William Elphinstone Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Glossed manuscript of German provenance, written in or about 1508, of the first part (Epp. 1-88) of Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales'., [Circa 1508.]
'Historical memoirs of his late Royal Highness William-Augustus, Duke of Cumberland' (London, 1767), with marginal notes of Thomas Carlyle.
'Illustrations of the genealogy of Sir Coutts Trotter', 1st Baronet of Westville, being an abridgement, 1830, of a manuscript genealogy then in Trotter’s possession of the various branches of the family of Moubray, his maternal ancestors., 1830.
The title is taken from folio 5.
The abridgement was made by John Philp Wood for presentation to Alexander Trotter of Dreghorn, brother of Sir Coutts.
A drawing of the arms of Sir Coutts Trotter is pasted inside the front cover.
Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
Lady Louisa Stuart's ballad, "Ugly Meg, or, The Robber's Wedding" ('Muckle-mouthed Meg'), in Sir Walter Scott's hand.
The ballad is undated, but is written on paper watermarked 1805.
There are some words and phrases in another hand in places where the original writing has been deleted.
With a frontispiece in watercolour and a tailpiece in pencil.
Letter, 1893, of William Sharp to the publisher Frank Murray, inserted in Murray’s own copy of ‘Pharais’ by Sharp (Derby, 1894)., 1893, 1894, 1899, undated.
The letter concerns the publication of ‘Pharais’ and the author's wish to maintain his pseudonym.
Two press cuttings are tipped in to the volumes:
A poem, undated, of Fiona Macleod;
A letter of Fiona Macleod published in ‘The athenaeum’, 13 May 1899.
The volume contains the bookplate of Frank Murray.
Letter, 1893, of William Sharp to the publisher Frank Murray, inserted in Murray’s own copy of ‘Vista’ by Sharp (Derby, 1894)., 1893, 1894.
The letter gives William Sharp's view of ‘Vistas’ as a series of psychological problems in dramatic form.
A postcard, 1894, of Louise Chandler Moulton to Frank Murray is tipped in to the volume.
The volume also contains the bookplate of Frank Murray.
Letter of David Macbeth Moir to Robert Macnish, thanking him for a copy of his ‘Philosophy of sleep’, referring to possible notices of it in the press, and containing some information about John Galt; pasted into a copy of Moir's ‘Biographical memoir of John Galt’ (Edinburgh, 1841).
Letters, accounts and other papers of, to, or concerning, Thomas and J A Carlyle., 1833-1880, undated.
Letters addressed to or collected by members of the Bliss family (Dr J Bliss, Hampstead and Bath; Reverend William Bliss, Newnton and Bath; Reverend James Bliss, editor of Laud; William H Bliss).
The correspondents of the Blisses are literary, antiquarian, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the early 19th century. In addition, at least one of the family collected autographs and several of his own time and of the 18th century are included. A number of letters are addressed to Thomas Park, the antiquary, and others are written by members of the Athenaeum to the Secretary, Edward Magrath.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family, with undated drafts and miscellanea., 27 June 1865-1870, undated.
Includes 22 draft letters, ?1867-?1870, an "Author’s note of 1868" to 'Sartor Resartus', a page of manuscript of 'Past and present', a note for 'Cromwell', a galley-proof of 'Frederick', other fragments, a book-plate, and a stencil for a silhouette.
Letters of William Sharp ('Fiona Macleod') to the publisher Frank Murray concerning two of Sharp’s works: ‘Vistas’ (Derby, 1894) and ‘Pharais’ (Derby, 1894); with related material.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Burgess, M. to Burgoynes., 1772-1915.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Mountstuart Grant Duff., 1862-1898.
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
Manuscript full orchestral score by Norman O'Neill for the complete play of ‘The last heir’ by Stephen Phillips., 1907-1908.
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Manuscript of book I of the ‘Scale of perfection’ by Walter Hilton., Mid 15th-century.
Manuscript of Francesco Marcaldi's work on Mary, Queen of Scots.
Manuscript of ‘The life of God in the soul of man’ by Henry Scougal, Professor of Divinity at King's College, Aberdeen.
The manuscript is dedicated on a title-page (folio 2), 'to The most virtuous Lady and The most generous friend My Lady Gilmoir, August 21 1676’.