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Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12091/1-74
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Dates:
1794-2001, undated.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1154
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);
Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).
Dates:
[1660-1853.]
Microfilm, chiefly of correspondence of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.513-515
Dates:
1843-1900.
Microfilm of “Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee Indians, who died in 1775.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1191
Dates:
[Circa 1760.]
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2001
Dates:
1555.
Microfilm of chiefly letters of and to James Robert Hope-Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.924-927
Dates:
[?1836-?1873.]
Microfilm of chiefly letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.365-372
Dates:
1818-1870.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of collection of theological works by or attributed to Saint Augustine, with a number of letters, chiefly of Saints Augustine and Jerome, written, probably in North Italy, in the fifteenth century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1389
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.101
Dates:
1793-1794.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).
Dates:
1726-1800.
Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers, March-December 1809, of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.955
Dates:
1809.
Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1044
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence and associated papers, January-March 1810 (Adv.MS.46.2.4);
Correspondence and associated papers, April-August 1810 (Adv.MS.46.2.5).
Dates:
1810.
Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1053-1054
Dates:
September 1810-March 1811.
Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1056-1057
Dates:
March-December 1811.
Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1065-1068
Dates:
1812-1813.
Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1070-1072
Dates:
1762-1814.
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers concerning the Buchanites, collected by Joseph Train.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1166
Dates:
1783-1845.
Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of, or associated with, Robert Burns.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1171
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence and poems, [?1787-?1795], of Robert Burns (MS.15951); Fragments of the autobiographical letter, 1787, of Robert Burn to Dr John Moore (MS.15952);Letters, poems, accounts, etc., 1783-1796, undated, of Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson, mounted in an album titled 'Burns MSS' (MS.586);
Letters, etc., late 18th century-early 19th century, associated with Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson....
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Microfilm of correspondence and papers chiefly of George Gleig and George Robert Gleig.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1826
Dates:
1787-1830.