Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The journals chiefly concern a prolonged residence of the 2nd Earl of Minto and his family in Vevey, Switzerland, but including a visit to Paris (February-March, 1830), and description of the constitutional crises preceding the revolution there. MS.11992 ('Monte Rosa Journal') is concerned largely with the successful third ascent of the Breithorn by the 2nd Earl and party (August 1830); the journal account of the climb was published substantially complete in ‘Alpine Journal’, volume xvi,...

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Chiefly letters written from Holland by the 7th Lord Falconer; also descriptions of property in Jamaica.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of George Rennie, engineer, 1808-1809, 1814, 1821. (Folio 1.) (ii) Letters of Sir John Rennie, 1810-1812, 1814-1815, 1818-1821. These include the detailed letters he sent while on his extensive tour in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. They contain plans and diagrams as well as detailed descriptions of many engineering undertakings, especially bridges and harbours. (Folio 25.) (iii) Letters of George Rennie of Phantassie, 1792, 1806,...

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The papers include part of a letter (probably an application for a grant) describing the book (folio 42). Most of the material concerns Mull.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...

Scope and Contents This manuscript, which is signed by George Martine, appears to have been written between 1683 and 1685 (see dates on folios 1, 2 verso), and to have been used by him in revising and enlarging his original work. It is probably the copy referred to in a manuscript of the same work in Edinburgh University Library. It contains many marginal notes which are apparently in Martine's hand, including a reference to an event in 1689 (folio 70). A modern description of the manuscript and of its...

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The manuscript consists of a general history and description of the earth, followed by descriptions of animals, illustrated with several watercolours. At the end (folio 203) are miscellaneous notes and verses.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and typescripts of the introduction and opening chapter of 'Aubrey Beardsley: a study in the grotesque', 1937 (folio l); (ii) Manuscript of part of an autobiographical novel, 1938 (folio 22). It includes a title-page for 'The wilderness' (folio 25), but the text is not related to MS.26144. (iii) Manuscript fragment of a fictional description of a visit to Venice, circa l938 (folio 61).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Newspaper cutting describing the project (folio 4);(ii) Diagrams of mill with Gaelic terms (folio 5);(iii) Malcolm Mackay (Calum Ruairidh), Bragar. “‘Se fath mo mhulad mar chaidh a’ mhuilinn”, 9 quatrains (folio 7);(iv) “Muileann na Criadha aig iochdair an òis”, 8 quatrains (folio 8);(v) “A’ mhuileann a dh’fhàgadh ‘na tàmh bho chionn fhada”, 8 quatrains (folio 9);(vi) Description of mill...

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The biographical details and comments sometimes include physical descriptions, and the most substantial entry (folios 80-84) concerns Michael Quigley, a bricklayer and native of County Kildare.

This volume has also been used in the late 19th century for notes concerning the Minto estate.

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The notebook contains detailed notes on the economic possibilities of Loch Broom and Ullapool for fishing, forestry, commercial peat production etc., as well as reports on the possibilities of improvement for the water supply and harbour of Ullapool. This report appears to have been compiled for the 'British Society for Extending the Fisheries', but is in the form of a letter to John Rennie.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...

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The notebook contains descriptions of Macao and Canton in 1817, drafts of letters, 1826-1827, a commentary on ship's discipline and miscellaneous notes.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Though John Rennie's reputation is based on his civil engineering works, he continued throughout his life to be interested in and to construct mill machinery, both for mills powered by water, wind, and horses, and for those powered by steam. He had been briefly employed by Boulton and Watt in 1784, and it is thought agreed then not to construct steam engines himself. As a quid pro quo, Boulton and Watt regularly gave Rennie the task of providing the machinery to go with their engines. Thus...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...

Scope and Contents The papers include:German poem on the death of the terrier Camp, apparently by Henry Weber [?1809] (folio 14);James Hogg's ‘Glen-Avin’, in his autograph (folio 16);Prologue in Sir Walter Scott’s hand and apparently composed by him to ‘Helga’, probably the tragedy produced in Edinburgh in 1812 (folio 24);Drawing of the Torrs Mask presented to Scott by Train, with a description of it by Joseph Train (folio 80);Poem ‘To Time. By a...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i)-(ix) Cornmills. (i) Albion Mill, street plans, circa 1795, circa 1814, showing the position of the mill, and the letter, 1786, in which John Rennie described to his brother George the first starting of the mill, with miscellaneous notes and calculations relating to the mill, and to corn-milling in London, 1796-1798 (folio 1); (ii) Cork, letters, 1816-1820 (folio 16); (iii) Barsloisnoch in Kilmartin, letter, 1797 (folio 49); (iv) Lingard and Sadler's Mill,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters and estimate concerning the purchase by the government, for the use of the dockyard at Deptford, of the engine belonging to the Honourable George Villiers at Aldenham, 1811-1813 (folio 1); (ii) Reports, possibly by William Murdock, on the engines at Ale and Cakes, and Dolcoath copper mines near Redruth in Cornwall, 1782 (folio 9); (iii) Description of a Boulton and Watt engine made for Mark Bell, Battersea, undated (folio 13); (iv) Letters concerning...

Scope and Contents The papers include bills for food, liquor, clothes, lodging, etc., (passim); a description of the tumult in Edinburgh of 1596 (folio 7); letters of Sir John Campbell of Lawers, afterwards Earl of Loudoun, 1620 (folio 17), and of James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow, 1630 (folio 39); drafts of a letter of Archibald, Lord Douglas, apparently to a French Cardinal, 1653 (folio 43); a memorial regarding a roup of whales at Dundee, with reference to the Duke of Douglas' rights to such fish (folio 60);...

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A series of small notebooks. There was originally at least 41, but numbers 7, 19 and 20 are now missing.

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The pocketbook contains a description of Egypt, in continuation of MS.24560, page 2 (folio 5); additions to MS.24557 (folio 44 verso); 'Of the numbering of men' (folio 68) 'Of the excellency of the antient arts and sciences' (folio 105).