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Copies of miscellaneous documents.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.28
Scope and Contents
(i) Papers concerning the presentation of a Jacobite Medal to the Faculty of Advocates by the Duchess of Gordon in 1711, namely:`The Faculty of Advocats Loyalty in a letter to the Queen`s Most Excellent Majesty. By one of the Dean of Faculty`s Council. Printed in the Year MDCCXI. ` No such printed work seems to be recorded. (Folio 2.)`The Double of Criminal Letters against Mr. James Dundas, Advocat, 1711.` (Folio 12.)(ii) `A Letter from Jack Straw in the...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Copies of single letters of Marjorie McNicol and John Mackintosh to James McNicol.
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Identifier: Acc.7020
Dates:
1831-1833.
Copies of sixteen letters concerning public affairs in Scotland.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.4
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.2.27.
Dates:
1746.
Copies of three letters concerning the Scottish Cooperative Employees Association.
File
Identifier: Acc.4824
Dates:
1895-1906.
Copies of three letters of Anne of Denmark to Colin Campbell, Laird of Glenorchy.
File
Identifier: Acc.11778
Dates:
1607 and undated.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
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Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Copy, 17th century, of ‘Humii vindiciæ Buchanani contra Camdenum’ or ‘Camdenea; id est examen nonnullorum a G. Camdeno in Britannia sua positorum, præcipuē quæ ad irrisionem Scoticæ Gentis et eorum et Pictorum falsam originem’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.9
Scope and Contents
At the end is a copy of a Latin letter, 7 Cal. May 1604, of Andrew Melville to David Hume.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: A.5.16.
Dates:
16th century, 1604.
Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.16
Scope and Contents
The text is closely related to the life by William Roper, but there are interpolations and the dialogues are in the third person. Roper`s preface is replaced by a dedicatory letter to Captain Marmaduke Rawdon from John Hawkins, stating that Hawkins had originally intended to publish the text (Roper`s biography was first published in 1626). The life is followed by a poem `Sir Thomas More his Vision` (folio 80) which has been published by Constance Smith in ‘Moreana’, number 37 (1973), pages...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Copy letter, 1986, of Margaret Tait, together with copies of letters, 1863 and 1897, of her grand-uncle, William Archer Porter, and her father, John Guthrie Tait.
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Identifier: Acc.10621
Scope and Contents
Letters concern Indian matters.
Dates:
1863-1897.
Copy letter of Robert F Fairlie to Mountstuart E Grant Duff, Under Secretary of State for India.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10255
Dates:
1870.
Copy, made apparently in or about 1704 by Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates` Library, of (i) a letter written by James V in 1528 to the authorities of the town of Ratisbon (now Regensburg) in favour of the Scots monks there (folio i); and (ii) the preface, entitled `Praefatio, sive Velitatio in Irlandos`, of the `Germania Christiana` of Robert (in religion, Boniface) Strachan, Benedictine monk at Ratisbon (folio 1, where his name is wrongly recorded as Bonaventure).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.6
Dates:
1528, 17th century.
Copy, made in 1702, of letters and memoirs of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scoury (?1640-1692), concerning the campaigns in Scotland in 1689-1690, and in Ireland in 1691.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.1
Dates:
1689, and after.
Copy of a letter of Mrs Anne Grant of Laggan, inserted in volume i of the first edition of her ‘Letters from the mountains’.
Item
Identifier: MS.5842
Scope and Contents
The letter, a reply to some well-wishers seeking to help Mrs Anne Grant, describes the financial difficulties which led her to print the 'Letters from the mountains'.
According to a note on the flyleaf of the volume, the copy was made by Harriet, 2nd wife of the 6th Marquess of Lothian.
Dates:
1806.
Copy of a letter of Robert B Armstrong to Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8993
Scope and Contents
Concerning Sir William Fraser.
Dates:
1880.
Copy of an apparently unpublished work entitled 'Practical Tracts of Artillery', written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Identifier: MS.8185
Scope and Contents
The work was written by John Macdonald when he was Captain Commanding the Artillery at Fort Marlborough, [Sumatra]. The text is preceded by a letter to the Governor and Council of the Military Department there, an introduction to the work, and a letter to the Governor-General and the Supreme Council at Fort William.
Dates:
1787.
Copy of David Hume's original manuscript account of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with additions and corrections in Hume's own hand.
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Identifier: MS.5722
Scope and Contents
Included are copies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s letters and three of David Hume's, 1763-1766. The statement itself is undated, but was the original version of the ‘Exposé succinct de la contestation qui s'est élevée entre Mr. Hume et M. Rousseau, avec les piéces justificatives’, translated by J B A Suard; and of the ‘Concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr Hume and Mr Rousseau (London, 1766), which was mainly re-translated from the French. The text of the...
Dates:
1763-1766.
Copy of letter of Donald Munro to George W Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll, seeking an appointment.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10945
Dates:
1824.
Copy of letter of Euphemia Boswell, née Erskine, to her second son John, younger brother of James Boswell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10925
Dates:
1765.
Copy of letter of James Morgan to unidentified former employer in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7022
Dates:
1851.
Copy of letter of John Murray II to John Leycester Adolphus.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13011
Dates:
1825.
Copy of letter of Margaret I Bain to Henry W Meikle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9639
Scope and Contents
Concerns Franco-Scottish relations.
Dates:
1932.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
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Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Dates:
1559-1618.
Copy of part of a letter of Robert Burns to Agnes McLehose, pseudonym Clarinda.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11776
Dates:
1793.
Copy of the contract by Sir William Alexander for the first settlement of Nova Scotia.
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Identifier: Acc.11716
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of a letter signed by James VI and I granting Alexander funds for the colony.
Dates:
1622.
Copy of the letters of George Beattie to Williamina Gibson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9662
Dates:
1821-1823.