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Walter Scott`s interleaved set of the Waveley Novels in 41 volumes, known as the "Magnum Opus".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9147- is now MSS.23001-23041
Dates:
Undated
Waltz, 1830, composed by John Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6292
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1834, of John Thomson, Minister of Duddingston.
Dates:
1830, 1834.
War correspondence between Lawrence Burness and his parents.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9088
Scope and Contents
Includes extracts of letters, parted into three volumes, and photographs, 1942, of people and places mainly in Burma.
Dates:
1940-1947.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12181
Scope and Contents
Accession includes:
1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,
2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,
3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.
Dates:
1943-1948.
War diary of Alexander Avon Barnet entitled "The Sailor`s Way" and "Mediterranean Way".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8970
Dates:
1944-1945.
War diary of Lance-Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
File
Identifier: Acc.377- is now MSS.944-947.
Dates:
1915-1916.
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front.
Series
Identifier: MSS.944-947
Dates:
1915-1916.
War diary of Major Alastair I Macdougall.
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Identifier: Acc.10430
Scope and Contents
Records Macdougall`s service on the Western Front with the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, later on the General Staff of the 21st Division.
Dates:
1914-1918.
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13336
Scope and Contents
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers, 1939-1947. Memoirs, dictated February 2012, of Lieutenant Colonel Brian D. Mackenzie, describing his service with 202 Field Company, Royal Engineers, during the Second World War. Originally a Manchester Territorial Army Unit, 202 Field Company changed in June 1940 to 52nd (Lowland) Division. Mackenzie joined the company in 1943, whilst it was based in Scotland training for mountain warfare, a role which it was never to...
Dates:
1939-1968.
"War Work", a collection of manuscript poems of Gavin Ewart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10527
Dates:
1939-1942.
"Warnings of the Camisars" being copies of sermons preached by Thomas Dutton, James Cuninghame of Barns, and other Quietists, in Edinburgh and elsewhere.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8592
Dates:
1707-1711.
Warrant, 1641, to Sir David Cunningham (possibly 1st Baronet, of Auchinhervie), signed by the 1st Duke of Hamilton and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.8958
Scope and Contents
With:
two letters, 1653, of Robert Lilburne
four letters, 1659, of General George Monck.
Dates:
1641-1659.
Warrant appointing George Handasyde Pattison as Sheriff of Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6115
Dates:
1868.
Warrant by Barbara Porterfield, daughter of the late Walter Porterfield of Comiston, Advocate, to Patrick Scott, Writer in Edinburgh, to receive the 35/- Sterling granted her by the Faculty of Advocates.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.232
Dates:
1728.
Warrant for collecting of Salt Tax in favour of Robert Anderson
Item
Identifier: Acc.13343
Dates:
1791
Warrant of commitment, concerning Grange Coal Company.
Item
Identifier: Acc.1876- is now MS.7651(iii).
Dates:
1796.
Warrant, signed by Queen Victoria.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5922
Scope and Contents
Granting Civil List pension to James Browne.
Dates:
1840.
Warrant, subscribed by George IV [sic] in favour of George Home and Walter Scott as Principal Clerk of Session.
Item
Identifier: Acc.112- is now Ch.60.
Dates:
8 February 1806.
Warrant subscribed by the Duke of Rothes, the Marquess of Atholl, the Earl of Argyll, and the Earl of Queensberry to Sir William Sharp, cash-keeper, to pay to Captain John Gray £10 Sterling as his pension.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.226
Dates:
1681.
Warrant subscribed by the Marquess of Atholl, the Earl of Strathmore, the Earl of Queensberry and Charles Maitland (later Earl of Lauderdale) to pay Captain John Gray £10 sterling as a pension.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.227
Dates:
1681.
Warrant summoning James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, to attend the trials for High Treason of Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie and Balmerino.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11958
Dates:
1746.
Wartime log of Flight Sergeant Charles D Paterson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13215
Scope and Contents
Wartime logbook, 1938-1942, of Flight Sergeant Charles D. Paterson, recording his experiences during the Second World War. The contents list at the beginning of the volume suggests that Paterson was a POW in first Italy then in Germany, although the description of his experiences is incomplete and ends before his capture. In one of the chapters, Paterson notes that he has been a prisoner of war for almost 3 years. In addition to Paterson`s description of his flight...
Dates:
1938-1942.
Watercolour by Karl-Erik Forsberg, symbolising the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9187
Dates:
1986.