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Peninsular War papers of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple.
Includes letters Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, dispatches, letter books and drafts of his writings.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.
Including:
1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)
2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel
3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937
4. commonplace book, circa 1896
5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Printed copy of Justinius, "Institutes" (1678), with manuscript annotations.
Prompt scripts of 18 plays performed at the Citizens' and Close Theatres, Glasgow; with related printed and photographic material.
Prompt scripts of 83 plays performed at The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.
Records of the National Party of Scotland, Scottish Convention, Scottish Covenant Association and Scottish National Party.
Minutes, letters and papers, with miscellaneous printed political leaflets and ephemera retained with the collection, from the Edinburgh Headquarters of the Scottish National Party. Included are records of other organizations of the national movement.
Rental book of the burgh of Lanark for the year 1770 of rents to be collected by William Tod, surgeon in Lanark.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Transcript by Pier Asdentz of an Italian translation of the philosophical work by the Reverend Father Pier Maria Ferrari: ‘"Introduzione d`Alcinoo Filosofo agli Insegnamenti di Platone". Tradotta dalla Greca favella nella nostra Italiana dal R.P. Pier Maria Ferrari, Genovese delle Scuole Pie, trascritta dall`originale da me. Pier Maria Asdentz, Genova: 1737’.
Two Books of Hours, one English, 15th century, and one French, 15th to 16th century; with three volumes, 17th century, concerning law and heraldry.
Two ledgers, 1872-1928, of the Marriage Contract Trustees of Thomas A Gibson Thomson and Jean Margaret Alan Stevenson, later Denton.
Includes six unrelated ledgers concerning trusts and executries.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.