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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.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Jacobite papers deriving from W B Blaikie`s collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6849
Scope and Contents

Including:

manuscript draft report, circa 1745, on Sir John Cope`s military operations

manuscript verses, 1745, on Gladsmuir

"A Chronological Table of Military Operations in Great Britain, 1745-1746".

Dates: circa 1745-1746.

Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3112

Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9319
Scope and Contents

The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards; detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.

The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.

Dates: 1854-1856.

Papers of Richard Dark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17
Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

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Letters. Correspondence. 7
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Reports. 6
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Speeches. Documents. 5
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Receipts. Financial records. 4
Accounts. 3
Correspondence. 3
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Memorials. Legal documents. 3
Orders. Records (documents). 3
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 3
Reports 3
Typescripts. 3
Abstracts. Summaries. 2
Articles. 2
Depositions. Testimonies. 2
Excerpts. 2
Fragments. 2
Instructions. Document genre. 2
Petitions. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Proceedings. Reports. 2
Proclamations. 2
Records (documents). 2
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Transcripts. 2
Warrants. Permissions. 2
Abridgements. Versions of documents. 1
Advertisements. 1
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
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Pencil drawings. 1
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Portraits. 1
Proposals. 1
Prospectuses. 1
Publications. 1
Rentals. Records (documents). 1
Returns. Military reports. 1
Rules. Instructions. 1
Sales records. Financial records. 1
Sermons. 1
Short stories. 1
Sketches 1
Sketches. 1
Songs. Musical compositions. 1
Sonnets. 1
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Language
English 5
Undetermined 5
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Blaikie, Walter Biggar, historian, civil engineer and publisher, 1847-1928: collector 1
Cope, Sir John, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1690-1760 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1