James Simson's name is on the fly-leaf. A letter, 1867, of the Reverend Charles Rogers to Simson, thanking him for the loan of the album, is inserted (folio 11).

The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.

The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.

The autographs are of botanists, evangelical divines, and others, many being addressed to the Reverend Thomas Raffles, Liverpool, and to John Shepherd, Botanical Garden, Liverpool.

Inserted at the beginning of the volume is a letter of David Macpherson to the Earl of Buchan about his edition of Wyntoun, 1794.

Weir produced a high volume of written and spoken outputs during his career. The papers here relate to some of the results of that work, including his contributions to radio.

Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.

The general elections of 1812, 1831 and 1832, and the by-election of 1834, are particularly well documented in this series.

The correspondents are: John Stuart (folio 1); William Fraser (folio 75); Cosmo Innes (folio 121); Andrew Jervise (folio 149); R W Billings (folio 179); and Henry Laing (folio 214).

Some papers on early Scottish seals, associated with the interests shared by Laing and Patrick Chalmers, are included at the end of the volume (folio 246).

Don Paterson's literary papers consist mainly of notebooks and poetry files in which his meticulous planning, working and reworking of the poems is evident. The notebooks are rarely only poetry and frequently contain doodles, bars of music and set lists relating to Lammas, 'mind-maps', packing lists and other such memory-aids, and lengthy notes often relating to his teaching activities.

The documents consist chiefly of copies of letters and reports addressed to Cornwallis by his subordinates, and include, for instance, a letter of Captain Francis Light regarding Penang, 1788, and a long series of reports by magistrates on the administration of justice in criminal cases in their several districts, 1789-1790. All letters bear a reference to the covering letter in MS.3385.

Item 50 not received by National Library of Scotland.

Originally housed in a ringbinder this file is a counterpart of Acc.13328/1631. The original ringbinder was annotated as follows: "Researchers General, A-K, File No. 1, closed August 1975", however there are letters outlying this date, commencing in 1968 and finishing in 1977. Letters have been arranged alphabetically by researcher surname, subject surname, and/or organisation name. Original and copy letters are present.

Originally housed in a ringbinder this file is a counterpart of Acc.13328/1633. The original ringbinder was annotated as follows: "General Researchers, A-K, File No. 2, August 1975-closed October 1979", however there are letters outlying both dates, commencing in 1970 and finishing in 1980. Letters have been arranged alphabetically by researcher surname, subject surname, and/or organisation name. Original and copy letters are present.