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Annotated copy of May Sinclair, "A Defence of Idealism" (1917).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11190
Scope and Contents

Includes three letters, 1923-1924, of the author to W J Jupp and Jupp`s annotations and presentation note, 1925, to J Ramsay MacDonald.

Dates: 1917-1923.

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.

Copy of Sir Augustus W Franks, "Notes on Bookplates" (1887) with author`s presentation note.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10641
Scope and Contents

Includes pasted in letter, 1888, of John Lane to Walter Hamilton, with other letters loosely enclosed and pasted in.

Dates: 1887-1888.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Letters and cards of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Christine Shaw.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12854
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of Wild Hawthorn Press books, art-works, private view cards and other papers relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Dates: circa 1992-2000.

Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents

The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988, undated.

Volume containing surveying instructions and a business ledger, compiled at Yarrow.

 File
Identifier: MS.14283
Scope and Contents The author is unknown, but the name E L Brown is stamped on the front cover.The contents are as follows.(i) Instructions for surveying, illustrated with examples taken from the Duke of Buccleuch's estates along Yarrow Water. (Folio 2.)(ii) Business ledger of a merchant with trading interests in La Rochelle, Leghorn and Jamaica. The commodities include wool, wine, sugar, wheat and cotton (folios 1 verso, 59). It is followed by incomplete notes on balancing...
Dates: 1812.

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Names
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Franks, Sir Augustus Wollaston, Knight, antiquary, 1826-1897 1
Hamilton, Walter, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, fl 1888 1
Jupp, William Jesse, Unitarian minister and author, 1846-1936 1
Lane, John, publisher, 1854-1925 1