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Correspondence, autobiographical papers, and sermons of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod, Doctor of Divinity (1831-1916), minister of The Park parish, Glasgow from 1869 to 1909, and editor of the periodical ‘Good words’ from 1872 to 1905.
Most of the correspondence concerns Donald Macleod's editorship of ‘Good words’, including many letters from contemporary authors and men of letters, with some letters of his brother, Dr Norman Macleod, minister of The Barony parish, Glasgow, and the first editor of ‘Good words’.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Dupuy book of hours, produced in Flanders in the late 15th century.
“Een seer schoon ende deuoet boexken inhoudende vele schoon ghebekens vvaer mede een Christen mensche hem sal oeffenen om die eeuvvighe salicheyt te vervverue ... Anno 1575.”
'Fitzalan Prayerbook', a 15th-century devotional manuscript written and illuminated in England, bearing the arms of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.
Fragments of a Latin commentary on Aristotle's ‘Categoriae', including parts of the 'Liber predicabilium' and 'Liber predicamentorum'.
The commentary is followed by a fragment of a manuscript in English (folio 34) and part of a vellum leaf from a 13th-century noted service book (folio 36).
Fragments of liturgical and other medieval manuscripts.
General Order Book of the Fife Regiment of Militia containing printed and manuscript War Office circulars addressed to the commanding officer of the regiment.
Several of the circulars are signed by Viscount Palmerston as Secretary-at-War, and Viscount Sidmouth as Home Secretary.
Interleaved copy of "Questions Addressed to Students of Natural Philosophy", (Aberdeen, 1830).
Containing answers in an unidentified hand on the interleaves.
Letter-book containing official copies, in several hands, of correspondence and state papers during the Regency of the Earl of Lennox.
The manuscript covers the period from the murder of the Regent Moray in January 1570 until shortly before Regent Lennox`s death early in September 1571.
Letter-book of John Ewing, Writer to the Signet, legal agent for the Earls of Morton, concerning the Earls` affairs in Orkney and Shetland.
The correspondence is mostly legal and financial in nature, dealing with the running of the estate, the tenants` accounts, and the supply of butter, beer and malt, but there are some references to contemporary events such as the South Sea Bubble and the threat of a Spanish invasion. There is a break in the correspondence from 1721 to 1730, and some of the later letters are signed R E.
Letterbook of General Alexander Hay, kept by his aide-de-camp, Captain Alexander Tayler, during Hay`s command at Aberdeen.
The correspondence concerns orders and equipment, and reviews by Hay of the regular troops, fencibles and militia.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.
Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Literary papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, radio scripts and correspondence of Kathleen Annie Fidler.
Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.
Manuscript and typescript copies of poems of William C Anderson, with two published collections.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of eight poems of David Morrison.
With signed copy of Morrison`s "The White Hind and other Poems" (1968).
Manuscript and typescripts of Michael L Ryder, "Hair" (London, 1973).
Manuscript commonplace book entitled "Fancy Gleanings".
Manuscript copy of "The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression" (London, 1845) by Sir Charles Bell.
Manuscript copy, with art-work, of Andrew Winton`s "Twenty most Favourite Songs of Burns: with Music, Words and Notes on the Lasses to whom they were Written" (London, 1998).
Manuscript known as ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes in Gaelic and prayers and Psalm 118 in Latin.
Manuscript prompt-copy of ‘Donna Diana’, a comedy in three acts, adapted by John Westland Marston from the German version of ‘El Desdén con el Desdén’ by Agustin Moreto.
John Westland Marston wrote his version of the play for the actor Hermann Vezin, to whom this manuscript belonged. There are numerous annotations of the actors' movements and cuts in the text.