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Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Papers of James Aitkins, Bishop of Galloway.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
Papers of Sir John Strange concerning the trial of Simon, Lord Lovat.
Papers of the families of Crawfurd of Kilbirnie and of Jordanhill.
The contents are as follows: (i) Legal documents and correspondence, 1488-1789 (folio 1); (ii) Notes, ?1786-1821, on legal cases (folio 33); (iii) Genealogical papers, 1707-1731, undated (folio 65); (iv) Poetry, 18th century-19th century, including an early copy, dated 1734, of Allan Ramsay's poem, 'The Thimble' (folio 93); (v) Notes, undated, by George Crawfurd, the antiquary, and a translation of a charter, 1748, by Thomas Ruddiman (folio 107).
Papers of William Bell concerning his research on Henry Bell.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.
Photostats of manuscripts of Edmund Castell, the Semitic scholar.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
Political correspondence of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, mainly as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West, 1974-1997, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians, 1999-2007.
Print-out of text of a lecture of Dr Theodore Chalmers to the Highland Medical Society, on his career in medicine and his time as a medical missionary in Rajasthan, India.
Includes notes by John Chalmers.
Prints from original photographs of events in Russia, featuring Zinoviev and Béla Kun.
Prints from original photographs of political events in Soviet Russia; many feature Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, and the Hungarian communist leader Bela Kun; with a translation of the Russian comments on the verso of the original photographs, and xerox copies of these explanations.
Proclamation to the people of Great Britain, issued by Prince Charles Edward as Regent for his father, before raising his Royal Standard, initialled C P R and dated in the Prince's hand, Paris, 16 May 1745.
The proclamation is preceded by a copy of Prince James Edward's commission appointing Prince Charles Regent, Rome, 23rd December 1743, counter-signed by the latter 'Charles P.R.', and bearing his seal as Prince Regent.
This is the original manuscript, the lay-out of which is exactly followed in the printed copies.
It is accompanied by a note on its history, 1887.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Records of the Lanarkshire Miners` County Union, the Lanarkshire Mineworkers` Union and the National Union of Mineworkers, Lanarkshire Area.
Research papers and indexes relating to organs and organ music in Scotland and elsewhere, compiled by Colonel Godfrey I B Winn.
Rolls containing theological, heraldic and historical material.
Scribal copy of letter, 1643, of Oliver Cromwell to Lawrence Crawford
With annotated transcript and notes, circa 1840-circa 1845, of Thomas Carlyle.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Specimen of notes on the statute law of Scotland, from the first parliament of James I to the accession of James VI, by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Contains three of the printed, interleaved copies which Lord Hailes issued privately and sent to legal authorities for their remarks, with autograph notes by Lord Auchinleck, James Gordon, Advocate, and Hailes himself.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).