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‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.

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Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates: 1909.

Typed copies of newspaper articles and correspondence relating to John Knox, from the scrap-book of David Hay Fleming.

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Identifier: MS.2932
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include David Hay Fleming himself, Hume Brown, Andrew Lang, and James King Hewison.

Dates: 1890-1905.

Typed "Memoranda on Robert Cadell’s Collection of Scott Letters and on the Business Books of Constable & Co. and Cadell & Co".

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Identifier: MS.803
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) “Memorandum on Robert Cadell's collection of Scott letters, by his grandson, J. H. Stevenson, M.B.E., K.C.” (describing MSS.742-745), 1933 (folio 1), with notes by the Keeper of Manuscripts (folio ii) and James Glen, Glasgow (folio 13);

(ii) "Memorandum on the business books and letters of Constable & Co. and Cadell & Co.” (MSS.319-320, 324-325, 789-802), by the Keeper of Manuscripts, 1934.

Dates: 1933, 1934.

Typescript, 1920, of ‘The Gordons of Craichlaw’ by William MacMath, with corrections and prefatory notes by the author.

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Identifier: MS.5198
Scope and Contents

A letter about the work from E A Hornel, 1921, and a copy of Macmath's reply have been inserted (folio i).

Dates: 1920-1921.

Typescript and pasted-up magazine cuttings of parts of ‘Cleg Kelly' by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.

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Identifier: MS.6517
Scope and Contents The typescript covers chapters I-II (folios 1-7), X-XV (folios 23-45) and part of chapter XLVI to the end of the book (folios 55-119). The two former sections were mounted on large sheets of paper, and the last section has now been similarly treated to facilitate binding. The printed cuttings cover chapters III-IX (folios 7-22) and chapters XVI-XIX (folios 46-54). The printed text is taken from an earlier appearance of parts of the novel in the 'Sunday School' during 1894. The typescript...
Dates: [1896, or before.]

Typescript ‘Bibliography of William Kirk Dickson, Advocate', Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.

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Identifier: MS.8875
Scope and Contents

The volume was compiled by William Dickson in 1934, and contains amendments in his hand, and, at the end, additional entries covering the years 1934 to 1939, also in his hand.

Dates: 1934-1939.

Typescript 'Calendar of MSS. belonging to Colonel G. O. P. Campbell of Stonefield deposited on loan in Record Office, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh', 1948.

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Identifier: MS.3737
Scope and Contents

The documents cover the period 1638-1826, and relate to the rising of 1745 and to the administration of Argyll. The writers are the Earls and Dukes of Argyll and the Campbells of Stonefield.

Dates: 1638-1826.

Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.

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Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.17
Scope and Contents

The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.

The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.

Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.

Typescript 'Collected details re the Alston family (Scottish Branch)', compiled by Patrick R Alston, together with letters on the subject.

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Identifier: MS.3127
Scope and Contents

The compiler attempts to trace the history of the Saxon family of Alston from its first appearance in Scotland, before 1399. His collection, which deals mainly with Alstons of the seventeenth to nineteenth century, consists for the most part of extracts from Lionel Cresswell, ‘Stemmata Alstoniana’, 1905, other printed sources, and official records.

Dates: 1939-1941, undated.

Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.

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Identifier: MS.8028
Scope and Contents

The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.

The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.

Dates: 1798-1827, undated.

Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.

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Identifier: MS.3017
Scope and Contents The letters deal almost entirely with the affairs of the Gibson family and their relations (Balfours, etc.), but contain allusions to the state of trade and building in Edinburgh due to the war (folios 6, 10, 19). At folio 40a is a letter, 1794, of another son, John, merchant in Danzig, to his mother, describing the Polish rising of that year. The letters are illustrated by modern photographs of Pilrig House, Peggie's Mill at Cramond, family portraits, and Danzig. The volume containing them...
Dates: 1795-1797.

Typescript copies of unpublished letters of Thomas Carlyle.

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Identifier: MSS.619-620
Scope and Contents

The letters are in continuation of MS.618.

Dates: 1866-1875.

Typescript copy of a journal of a tour to Italy, made from London in 1891 by James John MacLehose, printer, Glasgow; bound with a volume of pamphlets from the library of the author.

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Identifier: MS.3520
Scope and Contents

The outward journey was made by sea to Brindisi, and the homeward by land, through Switzerland, France, and Belgium.

Dates: 1891.

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