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Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14317/1-34
Content Description Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates: 1877-2003 and undated, with most of the material dated 1877-1920s.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Correspondence of John Philp Wood regarding his edition of 'The peerage of Scotland’ by Robert Douglas, with manuscript notes on proof-sheets.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.2251-2252
Scope and Contents

Most of the writers of the letters and notes are members of the families concerned, supplying information. Some of the Rosebery letters in MS.2252 are on personal matters.

Dates: 1785, 1794-1813, 1836.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.511-518
Scope and Contents

There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.

Dates: 1821-1870, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates: 1860-1861.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Microfilm of papers relating to 'Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript' by James Hogg.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1042
Dates: 1817, 1818, 1820, 1855-1856, 1896.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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].
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Proof-sheets of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe’s edition of James Kirkton’s 'Secret and true history of the Church of Scotland'.

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Identifier: MS.540
Scope and Contents There are many notes and corrections in the autograph of the editor, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, which were embodied in the published text, and some instructions to the printer in the hand of James Ballantyne.Inserted are three letters of Walter Scott to the editor, 1817, 1829 (folios ii—vii); and Sharpe’s application to the Curators of the Advocates’ Library for the use of Wodrow’s copy of Kirkton’s manuscript at his own house, 1817. Sharpe’s application was granted, [Sir] John...
Dates: 1817, 1829.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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