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Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Notebook of Alexander Drysdale, containing material on trigonometry with calculations of heights and distances illustrated with drawings in watercolours.
One example is taken from Leith (folio 26). Also included are some sketch plans of property near Fergus, Ontario, farm accounts and miscellaneous notes, 1835-1838.
Notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.
Notes and a journal of Alexander Murray concerning the Douglas Cause.
Notes, dated 30 November 1762, on the Douglas Cause by Alexander Murray (afterwards Lord Henderland, Senator of the College of Justice) (folio 1), and journal, December 1762-February 1763, of his visit to Paris in connexion with it (folio 1 inverted).
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
Papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and his literary property.
Agreements, memoranda, letters, notes and drafts of Sir Walter Scott with his publishers Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and his printers, James Ballantyne, concerning Scott`s literary property. Included are a draft of the deed of 1819 selling the copyright of Scott`s novels and poems to Constable, and a letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Archibald Constable concerning his proposal for a Scott edition of Shakespeare, 1823.
Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.
With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
Papers of John McVie.
Mainly concerning his work as a Burns scholar.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.
Records of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
Includes minutes, accounts, membership lists, bet books, programmes, notes and printed books.
Ruddiman collection, consisting of manuscript-books and notes of Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library from 1730 to 1752, chiefly in Ruddiman’s autograph.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Student`s notes, circa 1590, on law, order of the Court of Session, practicles and styles copied by James Grant.
Includes two Gaelic poems of James Grant.
Also with farm accounts, 1722-1748, of James Mackie.