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At the end of the volume (folio 212) are copies of miscellaneous letters, sermons, and poems, mainly of a religious nature.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Copies of poems of John Leyden, including some not published in collected editions of his works. (Folio 1.)(ii) Writings in Leyden's hand: note on the magical books of Michael Scott (folio 71 verso); prose fragment, 'The Sexton' (folio 72); fragments of two poems in Scots, namely, one on the death of a sexton, signed 'J.L., Banks of Teviot', and a verse epistle to the printer of the ‘British Chronicle’ (folio 73); fragment of...

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The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

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The contents are arranged as follows: Manuscript drafts of sermons first preached in The Park Church, 1876-1909 (folio i); Manuscript drafts of sermons first preached elsewhere, 1895, [1901] (folio 192); Religious verses, undated (folio 246).

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Includes four letters, 1928-1929, of the Reverend W S Crockett, minister of Tweedsmuir.

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Includes manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks of speeches, lists and diaries.

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The papers chiefly relate to Joseph Cook’s discovery of stone coffins in Chatton churchyard, and to his son, Lieutenant Samuel Edward Cook, Royal Navy (afterwards Widdrington). Copies of correspondence of Cook with Sir Walter Scott, 1814, are included.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Correspondence, 1840-1872, undated, chiefly between correspondents of James Robert Hope-Scott, including William Gladstone, John Henry Newman, Henry Edward Manning, Nicholas Wiseman and E L Badeley (folios 1-112);Copies of a Bill and an Act relating to Foreign Bishops, 1841 (folios 113-118);Cuttings from German newspapers, 1841-1842 (folios 119-132);A copy (printed) of the funeral sermon by Cardinal Newman for James...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) An 'Essay on the change of manners in my own time, 1700-1790' by Elizabeth Mure, sister of Baron Mure (folio 1);(ii) Memoranda written by Baron Mure at Leyden, 1740 (folio 18);(iii) "Anecdotes relating to Scots troops in the service of the state’s General of the United Provinces" by Colonel J Stuart (folio 77);(vi) Copy in an eighteenth-century hand of a handbill on James Crichton, 'The Admirable Crichton',...

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The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) 'The Compt of the Cunze', a record of coins minted from 1588 to 1590, Edinburgh, 1590; endorsed in 1592 by John Mawer, a clerk in the Exchequer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Latin treatise on kingship and foreign policy, citing instances of French kings, in a hand of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Leaves are missing at the beginning, after folio 32, and perhaps at the end. On folio 29 is the name of Dame Mergarit Petfoure. (Folio...

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The contents include: a sermon of Principal William Robertson (folio 11), notes made by Lord Robertson for 'Account of the life and writings of William Robertson, D.D.' (folio 22), and papers concerning Ceylon (folios 28-38).

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James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1767. A large part of the papers consist of his essays, drafts and notes, many of which were used in his books.

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The contents comprise materials relating to John Pinkerton's collections of poetry (folio 1), edition of Barbour (folio 29), geographical works (folio 35), mineralogy (folio 104), ‘Recollections of Paris’ (folio 129), etc.; plans for works which were not subsequently carried out (folio 153); original poems (folio 164); and miscellaneous matter (folio 173).

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The note-book is wholly in shorthand.

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The note-book also contains some letters and notes of later dates, and is mainly in shorthand.

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The book also contains parts of Dell's sermon given in MS.3160 (inside front and back covers), part of a sermon of 'Mr. George Hutchisone', probably the Minister of Irvine (folio xiii verso), a note of the date of a disposition and assignation made by Christine Rollo to George Cockburne of Piltoun, 1664 (folio ii), a medical recipe and other medical notes (folios ii-iii), mention of a star seen in daylight, 1649 (folio iv verso), a list of game dated 1614 (folio vi), and other material.

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Signatures of Andre Macghie are written inside the back cover and at folio 1 inverted.

A leaf is torn out after folio 147.

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The notebook contains: 'The heads of a sermon called Right Reformation preached by Mr. Dell at a fast befor the Parl of England at Westminster, 1650' (folio 1), and summaries of sermons of Mungo Law (folios 5 verso, 12), Andrew Steuart, perhaps Stewart, Minister of Penninghame (folio 8), and Robert Traill (folio 9). The book also contains a medical recipe and one for making ink (folio 1), and lines of verse beginning, 'Love not the world, the world is vaine' (folio 1 verso).

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A scrap of paper inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand 'M.S. note book 1653-4’ is pasted to the outer front cover.