Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 6 of 6

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 proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.54
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);

Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).

Dates: [1548-1550, 1827, or before].

Microfilm of two books, 1692, 1697, of household recipes of Katherin Smith and correspondence and papers, 1818-1831, undated, of Sir John Sinclair on agriculture.

 Item
Identifier: MS.15553 [Mf.MSS.41]
Scope and Contents

The correspondence and papers of Sir John Sinclair includes translations and copies of letters on his ‘Code of agriculture’ and letters of him to Sir Patrick Murray Threipland.

Dates: 1692, 1697, 1818-1831, undated.