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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents
The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates:
1696-1891, undated.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6660-7000
Scope and Contents
This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.
Dates:
1778-1841.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.
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.
Correspondence and papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.142- is now Acc.4850.
Dates:
1963-1969.
Correspondence, papers, cuttings and publicity materials relating to the publication of books by Argyll Publishing.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14049 Box 1(1)-Box 12(7)
Dates:
1975-2014.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10873
Dates:
1929-1990.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
File
Identifier: MS.1888
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.
Dates:
1739, 1745, undated.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th century.