Signatures. Names.
Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:
Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.
Album entitled 'Military autographs', containing fourteen photographs of British and French generals and two signatures pasted in; together with a collection of autographs chiefly concerning the 1st Duke of Wellington, which were tipped in or loosely enclosed in the album, but have now been removed and are kept separately.
Album of Thomas Constable, publisher, containing the names of subscribers to ‘Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland’ by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, among which are signatures, 1842, of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
Article entitled 'A summer night's dream', published in three parts in the ‘United service magazine’, 1890, bound for Lieutenant Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars (afterwards Field-Marshal Earl Haig) whose signature dated Secunderabad, 1890 is inside the front cover, and whose book-plate (when Earl Haig) is pasted to the flyleaf.
The article was published in ‘United Service magazine’, June, July and August, 1890, pages 205-229, 357-376 and 385-402.
Autograph collection of John Horseman, Rector of Heydon, containing letters of celebrities of the early nineteenth century, chiefly addressed to Horseman, and many franks and other signatures.
Autograph of Queen Mary on the fly-leaf of 'Buckingham Palace: its furniture, decoration and history (London, 1930), by Harold Clifford Smith.
This copy of the book was made specially for Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary.
Bibles and a book of common prayer belonging to the Steuart family, with manuscript notes.
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Catalogue of the Abbotsford Library, 1838, signed and docqueted by Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet, 1839; with two duplicate copies.
Collection of letters and signatures, with many of the letters addressed to Dr David Maclagan and members of his family.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
‘Gem selection: Scottish songs’ edited by Alfred W Tomlyn, 7th edition (Edinburgh, undated); signed, with an autograph portrait sketch, Perth, 1928, of himself by Sir Harry Lauder; with other signatures inside the front cover.
Imperfect copy, lacking the title page, of the libretto of ‘La Traviata’ by Verdi (Paris, 1865).
Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.
James Bruce requests a reward for his services in giving advice on the possibility of an attack on Ferrol or Gascony and in exploring Barbary and the Nile, and describes his interviews with the authorities in London.
From the handwriting of the endorsement, the letter appears to have been addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Letter of Catherine Carswell to Edwin Muir in a copy of ‘The green ship’ (London, 1936) by Patrick Miller.
Catherine Carswell identifies Patrick Miller as her brother, Gordon Macfarlane, and writes about her work and other activities. The book is signed by Miller and the artist Eric Gill.
Letters addressed to or collected by members of the Bliss family (Dr J Bliss, Hampstead and Bath; Reverend William Bliss, Newnton and Bath; Reverend James Bliss, editor of Laud; William H Bliss).
The correspondents of the Blisses are literary, antiquarian, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the early 19th century. In addition, at least one of the family collected autographs and several of his own time and of the 18th century are included. A number of letters are addressed to Thomas Park, the antiquary, and others are written by members of the Athenaeum to the Secretary, Edward Magrath.
Manuscript containing various legal works, compiled in 1704.
Manuscript, late 15th or early 16th century, of the 'Oryginale cronykil of Scotland' of Andrew of Wyntoun.
The manuscript was chiefly written in the 1530s. It contains an incomplete version of Andrew Wyntoun's 'Oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle'. In Amours' edition of Wyntoun's work, this manuscript is referred to as the 'Auchinleck Manuscript'.
Manuscript of the 'Memoirs of Sir Henry Slingsby From 1638 to 1648', which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his edition of 'Original memoirs, written during the Great Civil War: being the life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt. Hodgson. With notes. &c'.
Manuscript volume entitled "The Journey Rout[e] of Her Imperial Majesty from Charcoff thro' the Government of Kursk to Moscow ... By the Governments Geometrician & Land Measurer Basshiloff 1787", consisting of descriptions of the different sections of the route through Kursk with illustrative maps.
The title of the main text is on folio 2. It is followed by a 'Short Delineation' (folio 17) and a map (folio 22) of the district. It is presumably a contemporary translation of part of the route of the return journey of Catherine II from her visit to the south and the then recently acquired territories in the Crimea.
Memoranda for David Hume’s ‘History of England’, not in Hume’s handwriting except the titles which are written and signed by him.
Memorandum on Jacobite intrigues in Sweden.
The manuscript signed by Johan Friedrich Osthoff, describes intrigues conducted in the interest of Prince James Stuart in 1719, with especial reference to a bogus expedition to Madagascar. The persons chiefly active were one Morgan, Captain Galloway of the frigate ‘Revolution’, Colonel Sebach, Clincowstrom (Klinckowstrom), and Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish Minister in London.
Metrical version of the Psalms, divided according to the Psalter of the Church of England.
There are metrical versions of the canticles (Te Deum, Magnificat, etc.) at the beginning. At the end (folio 127 verso) some of the Psalms are repeated, some of them in alternative versions.
Microfilm of Solemn League and Covenant, 1643; and, copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707.
The contents are as follows:
Solemn League and Covenant, printed by Evan Tyler (Edinburgh, 1643), and subscribed in West St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, in October 1643. It has some 750 names, of which two-thirds are actual signatures (Adv.MS.23.3.16);
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas conferring titles and Baronetcies, 1554-1707, most of the material being late 17th and early 18th century. Also included are copies of material concerning the Order of the Thistle (Adv.MS.34.6.2).