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Volume containing copies of legal opinions (mostly of Robert Blair of Avontoun as Solicitor General), and of other legal letters and papers (some printed) on various topics.
A letter is tipped in at folio 20, copies of legal papers are tipped in at folios 76 and 114, and printed legal papers are tipped in and pasted in at folios 29 and 32 verso respectively; folios 85-113, 116-120 are blank.
Volume containing extracts (folio 1) made about 1794 (the date of the watermark of the leaves) from the topographical collections of Walter Macfarlane of that ilk, 1748-1749 (Adv.MS.35.3.12), followed by fragments (folio 63), being folios 109-112 and 127-144, of ‘The Geography of Moray`.
Volume containing surveying instructions and a business ledger, compiled at Yarrow.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
Volume entitled `Field Marshal Earl Haig K.T. Letters 1920 to 1927`, containing forty-one letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.
Volume of `Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1800-1826`, containing letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents.
Volume of Covenanting documents, containing copies of papers representing an extreme 'Cameronian' view.
Volume of letters and papers relating to the research of William L Taylor and J A Fairly on Peter Buchan.
Volume of letters of Alexander Park, Writer, Glasgow, under the pseudonym `Andrew Ker`, an intentionally eccentric and outrageous correspondence.
Volume of miscellaneous letters and a poem of Robert Louis Stevenson, together with letters of Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin concerning Stevenson.
The letters are unpublished unless otherwise stated.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Volume of topographical surveys.
Volume of transcripts and notes of and relating to James Thomson, made by an indentified Kelso enthusiast for Thomson, including transcripts of letters to his friend, Dr Cranstoun, biographical notes and queries, and printed reports of anniversary meetings of the Ednam Club to celebrate the poet`s birthday in 1812 and 1813.
Vouchers and receipts of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the purchase, shipment and binding of books, and other Library expenses.
‘Walk to the Culbin Sands; being a lecture delivered at the Nairn Literary Institute, Nairn’, [1882], containing a letter from the author to Sir Arthur Mitchell, 1900, on local bibliography.
Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.
Waltz, 1830, composed by John Thomson.
With a letter, 1834, of John Thomson, Minister of Duddingston.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Warrant, 1641, to Sir David Cunningham (possibly 1st Baronet, of Auchinhervie), signed by the 1st Duke of Hamilton and others.
With:
two letters, 1653, of Robert Lilburne
four letters, 1659, of General George Monck.
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Women, education and literature: the papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, part 3, reels 1-4 (Adam Matthew, 2001).
Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.