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Copies, early 18th century, of letters and memoirs of covenanters.
Copies, late 17th century, of letters, 1637-1638, of Robert Baillie, principal of Glasgow University, and of papers, 1638, concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Copies, made by Adam S Douglas in 1838, of a collection of letters, 1744-1746, addressed to Robert Craigie of Glendoick, Lord Advocate for Scotland.
The letters, which are chiefly of the later part of 1745, deal almost entirely with the Jacobite rising.
Copies of 20 letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Derek Stanford, and six letters of Stanford to Findlay.
On literary matters.
Copies of 54 letters of William Carey, William Ward, and other Baptist missionaries in Bengal, to William Cunninghame.
Copies of correspondence of Elizabeth Steuart-Barclay of Coltness, concerning "The Laird of Cool's ghost" by William Ogilvie, minister of Innerwick.
Copies of documents of and concerning David Livingstone made for William Garden Blaikie, author of ‘The personal life of David Livingston’.
Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.
Copies of letters, 1769-1808, of Ann Murray Keith addressed to Jeremiah Hill, a Bristol merchant.
The letters deal largely with personal and family affairs, including those of Ann Murray Keith's friends, Mrs Baird of Newbyth and the Countess of Balcarres, but there are also references to public affairs and to the social life of the time.
According to a note in the volume the copies were made in 1829 at the instance of Charles Hill, a son of Jeremiah and the owner of the originals.
Copies of letters, 1845-1860, of John Connel and John Taylor to relatives in Scotland.
With letter, undated, of William Edmond, to his sister Mrs James McQuat, Balfron, and a family tree of the McQuats.
Copies of letters, 1856, 1884, of John and Margaret McDonald to relatives in Rosshire.
With a postcard, 1901, from Philadelphia.
Copies of letters and associated papers of, or concerning, the Grant family to their Morison relations in Mull.
Copies of letters and instructions of Thomas, Baron Wharton, deputy warden of the marches.
Most of the material concerns the order of the watches in the three marches, giving the areas covered and, in some cases, the names of those concerned.
The volume may have been intended for John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland; his arms are painted on page 2, and the bear and ragged staff of Warwick drawn on page 3. There are large decorated initials in pen and ink on pages 3, 7, 13, 37, 121 and 153, some of which bear the letters IN, TP, CC or TW.
Copies of letters and reports from Captain John Barlow and other officers commanding detachments of the Buffs in the Western Isles and the Laggan and Loch Rannoch areas.
Captain Barlow reports on his searches for arms and Catholic priests in the islands, and on shipping in the area. He also comments on the topography and social conditions, and puts forward suggestions for a permanent garrison, the building of schools and customs houses, etc. Reports from the mainland are chiefly concerned with cattle thieving and the power of the chiefs. The inverted folios contain tables of military posts in the Highlands and Scotland generally.
Copies of letters of Alexander MacRae to his family in Rosshire.
Copies of letters of Cuthbert Collingwood, afterwards 1st Baron Collingwood, to the Reverend Dr Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk.
Copies of letters of George and Robert Arbuthnot, at this time secretaries to the Governor of Ceylon.
The letters of George and Robert Arbuthnot were written to their family in Edinburgh, and describe the voyage to Ceylon, visits en route to Madeira and Madagascar, and life in Ceylon.
Copies of letters of James Bannerman Lorimer.
Mostly written from the Western Front.
Copies of letters of John C Hooper to his parents, during his time in the Boer War.
Copies of letters of the brothers McArthur, in Manitoba, to their sister in Nairn.
Copies of letters of the Reverend Thomas Guthrie to the Duchess of Argyll, with a few of other writers.
Copies of letters of William Davidson, the phrenologist and father of Thomas (1817-1885), the palaeontologist, to his grandson, William, 'Written at Heidelberg, and other places on the Rhine'.
In the first volume the letters discuss mainly religious and philosophical topics while the second volume is more autobiographical.
Copies of letters, tracts and other papers concerning the troubles in Scotland during the reign of Charles I.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.6.9.