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Society of Writers to Her Majesty`s Signet manuscripts.
Including mediaeval vellum fragments, facsimiles of letters and documents (with some original manuscripts), and annotated printed items.
Ten poems of Ronald Campbell Macfie.
With two letters, 1918 and undated, of Macfie to Mary Veronica Morgan.
The First World War: Political, Social and Military Manuscript Sources. Series 1: The Haig Papers. Diaries and letters of Sir Douglas Haig. (Harvester Microform: Brighton, [n.d.].)
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Theological writings and letters of James Tayes, written chiefly at Bo'ness.
Internal evidence suggests that James Tayes, if not actually a Quaker, subscribed to some Quaker doctrines; a summary of this evidence will be found on folio i.
There are copies of correspondence with John Brand, minister of Bo'ness (page 94); and with James Aird, minister of Torryburn (page 160).
Thirty letters and papers addressed to John Mure of Rowallan by Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Arran, Argyll, Lennox, Mar, and Morton, and others; with a transcript thereof.
Thirty-seven letters, 1811-1830, and fragments of manuscript, ?1831-1832, by Sir Walter Scott, with seventy-three letters, 1830-1832, written to or about Scott.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
Transcript, 18th century, of the ‘Chronicon Melrosense’, and other material.
Transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Transcripts, first half of twentieth century, of letters and papers, 1599-1611, concerning the Graham family and the Royal Commission appointed in 1605 for the settlement of the Borders.
Translation by Spring Macky of ‘Versuche und Muster...Papier zu machen’ by Jacob Christian Schaeffer, volumes 1-5.
Parts of the translation are in another hand of the 18th century.
Twenty-five letters, 1926-1977, of C M Grieve to James K Annand, mostly on literary matters; manuscripts of seven poems, undated, of C M Grieve; and a manuscript of an appreciation, 1967, by C M Grieve of George Ogilvie.
Two collections of writings of Allan Ramsay, in his hand.
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.
Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.
With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.
Typescripts and manuscript of plays by Margaret Clarke ('Lesley Storm'), and other papers.
Including typescripts of four other plays, with three letters, 1957 and undated, two of Laurence Olivier and one of Vivien Leith to Storm, concerning her plays.
Various letters, 1873, 1881, 1890, 1893, and undated, transferred from the Department of Printed Books where they were found loosely enclosed in books.
A contents list has been provided, recording also the former locations of the letters.
Various single and small quantities of musical compositions and letters of James Scott Skinner.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
Volume containing a letter of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring, 1824; four letters concerning Byron, 1824 and 1828; and a manuscript of his last poem.
Volume containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.
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`.
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.