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Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
Copy of the `Velitatio in Georgium Buchananum` of Ninian Winzet, which was published as part of his ‘Flagellum Sectarioram’.
Copy, with translation, of a letter of Dmitri Shostakovich to John McLeod.
Concerns variations by McLeod on a theme from Shostakovich`s Fifth Symphony.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Correspondence and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence of (or collected by) the Ossian Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland.
Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill.
The letters are in continuation of MSS.610-617. Seven of the letters are copies.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Description by Sir William Burrell of a tour made by him, chiefly in Scotland.
Digital prints, circa 2007, of a request of the Provost and Baillies of the City of Edinburgh to Sir Colin Campbell, 2nd Bart., of Glenorchy, to provide game for a banquet in honour of Charles I, 1633.
Includes copy of the same document on a CD-Rom.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Fair copy in an unidentified hand of apparently early 18th-century provenance of `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` by Sir James Turner, along with the rest of the contents of Adv.MS.31.1.14.
The transcript of Turner`s `observations` on O`Flaherty`s ‘Ogygia’ is written in the same hand but on slightly smaller leaves.
The copy may have been made for Sir Robert Sibbald who appears to have made a few brief additions at various places.
The volume appears to have been re-bound early in the 19th century.
Five letters of Ernest A Taylor to Walter R Cuthbert.
Mostly concerning plays by Cuthbert.
Includes copies of ten letters of Cuthbert to Taylor.
Four letters, 1935-1936, of or concerning C M Grieve to R D McIntyre, with other papers.
Includes:
Edinburgh University student rectorial broadsheet "Students` Front" (1936)
14 letters and other papers, 1942-1945, of or concerning Douglas Young
copy, undated, of "A Ballad for Douglas Young", attributed to Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Inventory of jewellery belonging to Queen Anne of Denmark.
‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.
A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.
Journals and related letters of Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letter, 1946, of T Graham Brown to Michael Roberts.
With:
notes, 1947-1948, of Roberts for his paper, "Early Travellers in the Graians" for the "Alpine Journal"
copy of a letter, 1830, from Geneva, concerning an Alpine accident on the Col du Bonhomme.
Letter, 1965, of Compton Mackenzie to D A Gordon, and draft of letter, 1969, of Gordon to Mackenzie.
With copies of three letters, 1969, of D A Gordon, concerning Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell.
Letter of Robert Louis Stevenson to Robert Allan Mowbray and Louisa Stevenson, from Hyères.
The letter is elaborately bound with a typescript copy, and boxed.