Microfilms.
Found in 1088 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);
Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).
Correspondence and papers of Charles Steuart, Cashier and Paymaster, American Board of Customs.
Correspondence of, and concerning, Sir Walter Scott.
Correspondence of William Mure.
The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.
Diary and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.
The contents are as follows:
Diary, 1855, 1858, of Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland as a Captain of the 93rd Regiment, in India. (MS.2234);
Correspondence, 1855-1875, of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland. (MS.2235).
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Fifty-one reels of microfilm of unpublished material of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, with contents lists and copies of unfilmed material; and microfiches and eleven floppy disks containing additional material.
Lauder transcript of the Cromarty manuscript on tartans in the Royal Library at Windsor.
Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: ‘Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen’.
Letter books containing copies of letters of William Elliot of Wells and the Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Bedford.
The contents are as follows:
Letter book, February 1807, containing copies of letters of William Elliot and the Duke of Bedford to the Home Secretary, Earl Spencer. (MS.12908);
Letter book, 1806-1807, containing copies of letters of William Elliot to the Duke of Bedford (MS.12909).
Letters of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to the Earl of Rosebery, written chiefly in his capacity of Secretary of State for War.
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1882-August 1894 (MS.10002);
Letters, [October 1894-1907] (MS.10003).
Letters to David Hume from writers with surnames beginning with L-R.
Microfilm and partial photocopy of transcripts of letters of Marie de Rabutin Chantal to her daughter.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Microfilm and photographic slide copies of the correspondence, papers and drawings of James Bruce of Kinnaird.
Microfilm, chiefly of correspondence of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
The contents are as follows:
Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);
Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).