Essays.
Found in 567 Collections and/or Records:
Collections of Tales for the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ project, with related correspondence and other papers.
The terms, `Gaelic version` or `English version` refer to the original manuscript texts produced by (`transcribed by` or `told to`) one of his team of collectors or by Campbell. Unless stated otherwise, all English versions of the tales and textual notes are the work of Campbell.
'Comparative View of the Huttonian and the Wernerian Theories of the Earth', a prize geological essay by James Rennie., 1815.
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Copies made by James Keay of Snaigow, circa 1722-1730, of legal works.
Copies of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’.
The authors name is not known.
Copies of papers entitled "Tobacco Smoke" and "Women`s Lib", by Wilfrid E J Trask.
Copies of three appreciations of Wallace, Burns and Stevenson by Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Re-published in 1905 by Aeneas Mackay, Stirling, being the publisher`s own copies including original letters of Lord Rosebery, 1905, tipped in.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Essay upon Tiends`, an anonymous essay in six chapters.
Internal evidence suggests that the original essay was written circa 1732. It begins on folio 1, and is followed by a discussion on `patronage` (folio 28 verso), apparently a memorial by C Talbot for an unnamed litigant; and a copy ‘Memorial for Mr Thomas Linning, Min[?]. at Walstoun` (folio 30). The original of this memorial must have been written before Linning`s death in 1731.
Copy made by James Keay of Snaigow, circa 1722-1730, of `An Essay upon the office of Messengrie. By A.F. Wryter to the Signet, 1715`., 1715.
Copy made by James Keay of Snaigow, circa 1722-1730, of `Ane Essay on the office of Notary`., Circa 1722-1730.
Pages 278-320 are blank.
Copy of ‘An essay on the war galleys of the ancients’ (Edinburgh, 1826) by John Howell, miscellaneous writer and janitor at the Edinburgh Academy., [1826, or after.]
Copy of "An Essay on Ways and Means for Inclosing, Fallowing, Planting, etc. Scotland" (Edinburgh 1729), with notes on the end fly-leaf by Naomi Mitchison in connection with her book, "The Bull Calves".
Copy of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’., 18th century.
A smaller part of the same work in Adv.MS.25.7.8.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (W.7.24).
Copy of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’., 18th century.
A treatise on the office and duties of notaries.
Copy of Francis Home's 'The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation', an essay which was awarded the prize of the Edinburgh Society for the Improvement of Arts and Manufactures in 1755 and was published at Edinburgh in 1757., [1755, or after.]
Copy of George Cheyne, "An Essay of Health and Long Life" (London, 1724), with frequent overlinings and annotations by John Elphinstone, 4th Lord Balmerino.
Copy of "Inquiry into the Causes of the Prescription of the Clan Gregor, 1603", by Donald Gregory.
Copy of "The Bruce and Wallace; Published from Two Ancient Manuscripts... in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates", with annotations by Patrick Fraser Tytler.
Copy, written in the 2nd half of the 17th century, probably in Holland, of essays against Georgios Plethon by Matthaeus Camariota, 15th century.
The manuscript gives the author`s name as Μακαριώτης and the title as πρὸς Πλήθωνα κατὰ (for περὶ) εἱμαρμένης.
Corrected manuscripts of three essays and two broadcast talks of Compton Mackenzie.
Corrected manuscripts of three essays of William Sharp, "The Cuckoo", "The Heralds of March", and "Mäya", with parts of two other essays.
Corrected proofs of Douglas Young, "An Appeal to Scots Honour".
Correspondence, 1807-1853, mostly of James Everson, Beverley, on the Scotch Baptist Church.
Includes transcripts, 1944, by James Idwal Jones, together with notes, essays and pamphlets on the history of the Church.
Correspondence, 1859-1910, undated, of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family; with related papers., 1836-1910, undated.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.