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Microfilm of copies of letters to the Admiralty, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in Chief of the North American Station.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.936
Dates:
1814-1815.
Microfilm of copies of letters written by John Rennie to Joshua Walker and Company of Rotherham, who supplied the iron for Southwark Bridge
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1073
Dates:
1815-1819.
Microfilm of copies of private letters, 4 August 1824-24 December 1827, of Alexander Walker.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1574
Dates:
1824-1827.
Microfilm of copies of secret orders and letters issued and received by Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.934
Dates:
1814-1815.
Microfilm of copies, possibly 1831-1841, of letters, 1831-1841, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn, largely written during Jeffrey’s period of office as Lord Advocate, 1831-1834.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.141
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copies, possibly 1831-1832, of letters, February 1831-April 1832 (Adv.MS.9.1.8);
Copies, possibly 1832-1833, of letters, April 1832-May 1833 (Adv.MS.9.1.9);
Copies, possibly 1833-1841, of letters, May 1833-November 1841 (Adv.MS.9.1.10).
Dates:
1831-1841.
Microfilm of 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’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.215
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Microfilm of copy, 1892, in three volumes, of two manuscript volumes of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria, in 1826-1849; with index.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.480
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume I] (MS.1681);
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume II]. (MS.1682);
Copy of piobaireachd music compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria: [volume III]. (MS.1683);
"Index to Angus MacKay's MS" (MS.1684).
Dates:
1826-1849.
Microfilm of copy, by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of the log-book of Captain John Anderson for 1640 to 1643.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1250
Dates:
1640-1643.
Microfilm of copy by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne of the log-book of Captain John Anderson for 1640 to 1643.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2097
Dates:
1640-1643.
Microfilm of copy, late 17th-century, of the chronicle of the Civil War in Scotland, 1644-1676, compiled by Henry Guthrie, Bishop of Dunkeld.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.177
Dates:
1644-1676.
Microfilm of copy, of about the end of the seventeenth century, by the antiquary Robert Mylne, of ‘Ane account of ane Embassie performed by William Steuart [Stewart], Commendator of Pittenweim, and Mr John Skeen to England, Denmark, and the Princess [Princes] of Germanie in Anno 1590'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.809
Dates:
1590.
Microfilm of copy of ‘Georgii Buchanani … Opera Omnia’ (2 volumes, Edinburgh, 1715), edited by Thomas Ruddiman; with corrections and additions authorised by Ruddiman in 1756 (folio 1).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.109
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Volume 1 (Adv.MS.5.1.2);
Volume 2 (Adv.MS.5.1.3).
Dates:
1715, 1756.
Microfilm of copy of piobaireachd music, with index compiled by Angus MacKay, Piper to Queen Victoria; and, MacKay’s 'Specimens of Canntaireachd'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume I] (MS.1681), 94 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume II] (MS.1682), 105 frames;Copy of piobaireachd music, 1826-1849, compiled by Angus MacKay: [volume III] (MS.1683), 86 frames;"Index to Angus MacKay's MS", [1892, or after] (MS.1684);Transcript of Angus Mackay's 'Specimens of Canntaireachd', of...
Dates:
1826-[1892, or after], 1950.
Microfilm of copy of ‘Table Talk: The Discourse of John Selden Esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, Relating especially to Religion and State’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.572
Dates:
17th century.
Microfilm of copy of the inventory, 1615-1630, of the Trésor des Chartes, the muniments of the Crown of France; and index.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.102-107
Dates:
1615-1630.
Microfilm of copy of ‘The Literature of Alasdair Gray’ by Bruce Charlton, a Durham University thesis.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.828
Dates:
1988.
Microfilm of copy written in an unidentified hand of Alexander Carlyle's 'Recollections'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2106
Dates:
1801-1805.
Microfilm of correspondence and copies of letters of the 1st Earl of Minto to Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1146
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1810-1812, of the 1st Earl of Minto with Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty (MS.11692);
Copies of letters, 1810-1813, of the 1st Earl of Minto to Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty (MS.11693).
Dates:
1810-1813.
Microfilm of correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1076-1077
Dates:
1808-1813.
Microfilm of correspondence of the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1442
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters and enclosures of Anne Hayman, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Caroline, Princess of Wales and to the 1st Earl of Minto, with copies of some of the Earl's letters, 1798-1813 (MS.11131, folios 186-187, 198-234);Letters and enclosures of Anne Hayman, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Caroline, Princess of Wales and to the 1st Earl of Minto, with copies of some of the Earl's letters, 1799-1809 (MS.11132);Correspondence, 1798-1818, of the...
Dates:
1798-1818.
Microfilm of correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto, being chiefly letters, dispatches and enclosures from Francis Drake, Envoy at Munich, concerning the affairs of Bavaria and Württemburg, with copies of Drake's dispatches to the Foreign Secretary.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1178
Dates:
1800-1801.
Microfilm of diaries and musical compositions of Dr T H Collinson, Organist and Choirmaster of St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.649-650
Dates:
[?1873]-1928.]
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.30
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of ‘Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (Adv.MS.13.2.10);Blazons of Scottish arms, 1630-1643, by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne (Adv.MS.15.1.11);Arms of British and foreign noblemen, drawn...
Dates:
13th century-1703.
Microfilm of genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.28
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical material, 17th century-18th century, relating to various families in Scotland (Adv.MS.16.2.5);Collection of papers, 16th century, relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents (Adv.MS.19.1.18);Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.