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Miscellaneous documents and letters.
Miscellaneous documents of Sir James Balfour.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;
Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;
Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;
Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;
Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.
Miscellaneous law tracts.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.
The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Notebook containing a copy letter and other notes concerning silviculture at Parskcourt, County Wicklow, Ireland, possibly connected with Robert Monteath, King`s Forester.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Notes and extracts on a wide variety of topics, taken from a large number of printed and manuscript sources relating to the history and topography of Scotland. Most of the leaves appear to have been written by James Chalmers for the benefit of George Chalmers his uncle (in whose hand some of the items are written), and all were no doubt part of the materials collected for ‘Caledonia’.
The leaves are bound in no discernible order of date or subject, although there are various groups of related leaves bound together. The items are undated: dated watermarks range from 1796 (folio 22) to 1818 (folio 283); many of the notes on the population statistics of the various counties appear to have been written between the census of 1801 and that of 1811.
Notes, made by William J Russell, on lectures on chemistry delivered by Thomas Graham, Professor of Chemistry, at University College, London, in the session 1848-1849.
The notes, evidently a fair copy, cover an entire general course, the greater part of which is concerned with inorganic subjects.
Notes, mainly on geometry, by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Notes of David Hume`s lectures on Scots Law at Edinburgh University, taken by an unknown student.
The main differences from the Stair Society edition are that Part II, Chapters XIV-XVI appear after Chapter VIII (as in Adv.MSS.7.2.4-7.2.17), and that the chapters on Insurance (Adv.MS.81.6.12), and on Teinds and Patronage (Adv.MS.81.6.31) are omitted. For cases where these notes fill gaps in Hume`s manuscript, see the prefaces to the Stair Society edition. This is apparently a fair copy of notes taken at the lectures.
Notes of proceedings in the elections, 1790-1837, of representative peers for Scotland, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.
Included in the manuscript are the names of those who voted in the elections, and copies of relevant documents. The paper of the manuscript is watermarked 1839. At the end is inserted a newspaper cutting on the election of 1847.
Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.