Drafts. Documents.
Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:
Further papers and correspondence of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.
Further papers of Gordon Jarvie.
The papers comprise: (1) draft, 2013, of "Bessy Bell", a collection of poems by Gordon Jarvie, (2) drafts and correspondence relating to 1st and 2nd editions of "Climber`s Calendar" (2001, 2007), with correspondence, papers and ephemera relating to Jarvie`s Scottish mountain climbing and `Munro-bagging`, (3) finding list for Jarvie`s literary works.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton concerning his book "The Truth about Rudolf Hess" (1993).
Includes scripts.
Gaelic-English-Latin dictionary containing ‘G’-‘O’ written by the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan, as part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary.
The manuscript is based partly on material in Adv.MS.73.3.13, 14, 6, 15, 4 (in that order). Mackintosh MacKay pasted on marginal slips bearing additional material, as he did with Adv.MSS.72.3.13, 72.3.14, 72.3.16, 72.3.17, but not so copiously.
George Home of Wedderburn`s copy of "The Mirror", with manuscript notes and essay drafts inserted.
Heavily corrected manuscript of chapters I-XVII of Thomas Reid, "Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking" (1826).
With printed text and plates (with corrections) for Reid`s entry on horology in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia".
Incomplete letter of Robert Gilfillan.
Lamenting the deaths of poet friends.
Jacobite papers deriving from W B Blaikie`s collection.
Including:
manuscript draft report, circa 1745, on Sir John Cope`s military operations
manuscript verses, 1745, on Gladsmuir
"A Chronological Table of Military Operations in Great Britain, 1745-1746".
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Ledgers, notebooks, literary correspondence and audiovisual and printed material of Alasdair Gray.
Letter, 1634, to William Drummond of Hawthornden, and draft, undated, of part of Drummond`s `History`.
Letter, 1965, of Compton Mackenzie to D A Gordon, and draft of letter, 1969, of Gordon to Mackenzie.
With copies of three letters, 1969, of D A Gordon, concerning Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell.
Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.
The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.
Letter of Alasdair A MacGregor to Gerald Curtler, with draft reply.
Concerning the anti-vivisection movement.
Letter of Alexander to James Ballantyne describing the last dinner of the writer with Sir Walter Scott.
Includes manuscript draft and cutting of letter of John Ballantyne on the same dinner with Scott, and a pencil and chalk study of Scott by John Ballantyne.
Letters, 1914-1941, of Lord Alfred Douglas to William Sorley Brown, editor of the ‘Border standard’, concerned chiefly with the publication of Douglas's articles, poems and speeches; with several drafts of letters chiefly written to newspapers for publication.
Also included are a number of newspaper-cuttings, 1915-1936, undated, by or about Lord Alfred Douglas, and the manuscripts, 1915, undated, of three sonnets. "All's well with England", 'Winston Churchill' and 'A Christmas sonnet', all apparently unpublished.
Letters and papers of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’.
Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.
Letters chiefly of, to, or concerning David Livingstone and his wife; and other papers.
Letters of and concerning Hugh Miller and his relatives.
Letters of George Richardson and of Sir David Wilkie.
Letters of the diplomatist Sir John McNeill to the author John Paget.
Many of the letters discuss the eastern question and particularly Russia's policies towards Turkey and Afghanistan, but there are also comments on home affairs. Some of the letters concern ‘Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort’ by Sir Theodore Martin (London, 1875-1880), which John McNeill felt to have misrepresented the Crimean Report of 1856, made by himself and Sir Alexander Tulloch. Drafts of letters to Martin on this subject, with Martin's replies, are included.