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Found in 184 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Mary Frere (1845-1911)., 1867-1902

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Identifier: MS.40428
Scope and Contents Letters, 1867-1902, of Mary Frere to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. The letters mostly concern her publication “Old Deccan days, or Hindoo fairy legends”, illustrated by her sister, Catherine, and published by Murray. Some letters are written on behalf of her father, (Henry) Bartle Frere. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1867: folios 1-29;?1867: folios 30-31;1868: folios 32-35;1870-1872: folios 36-56;...
Dates: 1867-1902

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Knight., 1891.

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Identifier: MS.40661
Scope and Contents Letters, 1891, of William Knight to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray, with related letters and papers. They concern his editorship of, and his own contribution to, the University extension manuals series. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1891, January-March: folios 1-61; (1)1891, April-June: folios 62-79; (2)1891, July-September: folios 80-118; (3)1891, October-December: 119-138. (4)1. Includes letters, 8 and 22...
Dates: 1891.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Knight., 1895-1914.

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Identifier: MS.40663
Scope and Contents Letters, 1895-1914, of William Knight to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray, with related letters and papers. They concern his editorship of, and his own contribution to, the University extension manuals series, his works “Lord Monboddo and some of his contemporaries” and “Varia: studies on problems of philosophy and ethics”. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1895: folios 1-33; (1)1896: folios 34-72; (2)1897: folios 73-114; (3)1898:...
Dates: 1895-1914.

Literary papers of Séan Rafferty.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12351
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, sketches and ???, typescripts of poems by Ted Hughes, and correspondence with Nicholas Johnson and Kevin Perryman.

Dates: circa 1945-2003.

Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.15
Scope and Contents The first account describes `A Cruize among the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. June 1836` and the second is a `Log of the Barbara of Bedford during her voyage from Bedford to York. July 1835` (folio 43).At the end of each log, there are lists of illustrations which apparently were meant to accompany the text, but the only drawings in the logbook appear in the second account. There is a map of the area between York and Bedford (folio 44) and a sketch of `A Yorkshireman`s...
Dates: 1835-1836.

Manuscript of an English work entitled `A Compendious explication of all coats of armes in apt termes of Blazon`, intended for the amateur, in two parts, Blazoning and Marshalling.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.3
Scope and Contents

The text breaks off in the second part. The author refers to works by Nicholas Upton and Gerard Legh. There are several pen sketches and shields are drawn in trick.

Dates: 17th century.

Manuscript poems and sketches of Sir William Quiller Orchardson.

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Identifier: Acc.8025
Scope and Contents

With associated photographs.

Dates: circa 1855.

Manuscripts by David Livingstone in which are recorded his journeys and experiences in Africa; with related proofs, sketches, a photographic print and a printed portrait., ? 1852-before 1874.

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Identifier: MSS.42426-42440
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: ? 1852-before 1874.

Material of Sir James Balfour on the Irish nobility.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.27
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Catalonge [sic] of The Earlls Viscounts and Barrons of Irland as they ar Ranket in this present Zeir 1628’ (folio 1).(ii) `The armes of The Nobilitie of Irland and of Divers Gentelmen of The Same Countrey`. The date 1627 has been added. A sectionon the nobility is followed by one on the gentry arranged under the first letter of each name. The entries are blazons sometimes accompanied by sketches (folio...
Dates: 1627.

`M.S. West Highland Tales. Vol. I. Aug.1860`., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.1(2)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(xvi) Continued from Adv.MS.50.1.1(1). `Sgeulachd Chonnil`, English version from original by Kenneth MacLennan, Turnaig, Poolewe, 1859. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1, pages 143-148. (Folio 206.)(xvii) Gaelic text of `Sgeulachd Chonnil`, as transcribed by Hector Urquhart from Kenneth MacLennan. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ , 1, pages 148-152. (Folio 210.)(xviii) Corrected proofs of the Connal...
Dates: 1859-1860.

Notebook of Elizabeth Hume.

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Identifier: Acc.5587
Scope and Contents

Containing poems by Hume and others, sketches, and journal of a trip to England and Wales.

Dates: 1816.

Notes on astronomy, from the lectures of Professor William Law at Edinburgh University, by John Erskine.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.3
Scope and Contents

The notes consist of commentaries on Ptolomy`s ‘Almagest’ and descriptions of the rotations of the planets, with several sketches. There is also part of a lecture on biology (‘De Corpore Animato`, folio 79); some pages are missing at the end of the latter lecture.

Dates: 1693.

Notes on funerary trappings and the order of a funeral procession, by Sir James Balfour., 1633.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.16(iv)
Scope and Contents

This is a continuation of the notes at the end of 34.4.16(iii), which became detached. There are two sketches of hearses.

Dates: 1633.

Notes on the Romans, and on a Greek author, written by Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, probably from the lectures of his Regent, Andrew Burnet, at Glasgow University.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.3
Scope and Contents

The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.

Dates: Circa 1660.