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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.
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.
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`.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle, with a few of Mary Carlyle Aitken, afterwards Carlyle.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte, including diaries and journals, correspondence, notes for lectures on Scottish literature, and manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, fiction and critical works.
Microfilm of notebooks of Robert Garioch Sutherland, containing drafts of poems, notes on harmony, Italian grammar and vocabulary, notes from Sutherland's reading, and other miscellaneous material.
Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);
Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);
Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.