Notes.
Found in 5131 Collections and/or Records:
Volume of notes from the Gillanders of Highfield papers, mostly relating to Lewis., Undated.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Volume of notes of John Riddell, found loose, bound in 1934., 1818.
Volume of notes on Chinese language, customs, and other matters., written about 1855 by the late Dr Walter George Dickson, of Hongkong.
Volume of printed papers being for the most part petitions submitted to the Committee of Privileges in support of claims to various dormant or attainted Scottish peerages, 1812-1850., 1812-1850, and undated.
The only manuscript is a set of undated notes by John Riddell bound in after the second paper, the claim of Archibald Borthwick to the title of Lord Borthwick.
Volume of Scottish music, comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc., 1838, undated.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.
Volume of Warrants and Orders of the Honourable General James St Clair, many in the hand of his then secretary, David Hume., 1746, undated.
The volume contains notes in Lord Hailes' hand on sermons preached at Inveresk church, undated (folio 27), and miscellaneous historical notes, undated.
Volume of watercolour sketches and photographs with brief geological or meteorological notes made by John Francis Campbell on his journey to India in 1876-1877 in continuation of his world tour., 1876-1877.
Campbell also includes rubbings of ornamental tiles from some of the Indian temples he visited.
At the end of the volume there are a few photographs of Windsor Castle (folios 127-129).
Volume of works relating to Scots law chiefly in hands of the late seventeenth century., Late 15th century-early 18th century.
Volume on ecclesiastical antiquities, being the first part of a work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical and secular antiquities of Scotland., 1700-1707, or after.
Volume originally owned by Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and apparently originally used as an account book and subsequently to contain sketches, then turned over and used by Edward Charles Ellice of Invergarry to contain notes and memoranda relating to the estate of Glengarry for the years 1814 to 1912., ?1818-1912.
The volume contains sheets watermarked 1818.
Several leaves have been torn out at both ends of the volume and many leaves are blank except for the year recorded upon them.
The beginnings of an index to the original account book, the rest of which has evidently been torn out, appear, inverted, on folio 1 (i.e. what was originally the back of the volume).
Volume, stamped on the spine `Papers relating to Cromwell and the Regicides`, containing materials assembled by George Chalmers.
Volume titled, 'Copies of Warrants and Orders by Lieut. General St Clair Commander in Chief of an Expedition intended for North America, and afterwards sent to the Coast of Brittany, 1746 and 1747’., 1687, 1746-1747.
Many of the Orders were issued by David Hume, then Secretary to James St Clair. The volume is inscribed at the front 'Miscellaneous Records on The History of Scotland by Sir D D'. At the back is a copy of 'An Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther And The Original of the Reformations; Lately Printed at Oxford ... 1687'. With miscellaneous historical notes in Lord Hailes' hand.
Volume titled 'Forms of Warrant from General Wentworth'. , 17th century, 1746.
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes., 1819-1822, 1904-1922, undated.
The accounts of William Patrick are for shipping goods to Europe, China, Saint Petersburg and Smyrna. There are also lists of sailing charges and provisions.
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes; with correspondence and other papers of Rattray.
Volume utilized at different times to contain returns of the chief of staff`s allowance (folio 1), a register of applications to the director of customs (folio 3), a note on the movement of French troops (folio 23 verso), and a register of movement-orders, preceded by a list of stages (folio 36)., 1816-1818.
Many of the leaves are blank.
Volume V of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Volume VI of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Volume VII of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
Volume VIII of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Volume X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., [1836, or before.]
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Volumes containing notes and other writings of John Gray and others., 1598-[circa 1702], undated.
MSS.16468-16471 include notes and other writings of John Gray. MSS.16472-16478 are notebooks containing lecture notes and other writings by other, unrelated, students at Edinburgh University. These latter, which were part of the Gray library, may have been previously in Gray's possession.
Volumes, each stamped 'Piobaireachd M.S.S.' on the upper board, written in the same hand about the end of the nineteenth century.
Volumes I-X of 'Collections from the Public Records of Scotland and various other sources illustrative of the history of the West Highlands and Hebrides (in the 16th & 17th centuries) and of the genealogies of the different families, made by Donald Gregory'., 1830-1831, [1836, or before].
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.