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Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copies of Laurence Binyon, "Odes" (1901) and "The North Star and other Poems" (1941), both from the library of John Purves.
With four letters, 1900-1921 and undated, of Binyon to Purves.
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`.
Copy of Giles Dixey, "Deinde, More Collected Verses", with dedication and letter of Dixey to Ruari McLean.
Copy of ‘Hamewith’ (London, 1910) by Charles Murray, enclosing a letter of Murray to the publisher William Fordie Forrester concerning a publishing agreement with Constable.
There are transcripts by William Fordie Forrester of Charles Murray's poems "It wasna his wyte" and "The Thraws o' Fate" on the endpapers.
Copy of 'Wild coal' (1963) by Kenneth White; with a letter of White, some poems in typescript, and newspaper cuttings.
Correspondence, 1961-2017, and literary papers, circa 1970s, of David Macleod Black.
Correspondence and contributions relating to issue 22 of "Scotia Review", published spring 1997.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Correspondence and literary papers of the author, Marion C Lochhead (1902-1985).
Correspondence and manuscripts of Agnes Ethel Mackay (died 1980).
Agnes Mackay was born and educated in Scotland, but spent much of her life in France. During the German Occupation, she lived in St Tropez with her cousin, Marion Melville, and they moved to Paris after the war. Her publications included poetry, biographies of Paul Valery and Arthur Melville, and critical works on art and literature.
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
Correspondence and other papers of John Richardson, of Kirklands, Writer to the Signet, and his family.
A note on John Richardson's children will be found in MS.3989, folio i.
Correspondence and papers concerning the wartime detentions and deportations of members of the Jannetta family, St Andrews.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.
Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of and relating to James Hogg.
The contents include: letters of James Hogg, 1814, 1820, 1826, 1831, 1835; an unpublished poem, 'The Fall of Idumea', written by him shortly before his death; letters and verses of his literary acquaintances in Scotland and London and his family; information supplied to his daughter and biographer, Mary Garden; portraits of Hogg; and a receipt, 1819, for duty paid by him on 'one work horse', on which someone has written, 'Mr. Hogg has no Horse nor never had one' (folio 333).
Correspondence and papers of and relating to John Leyden, collected by his cousin and biographer, the Reverend James Morton, with correspondence of Morton.
Correspondence and papers of Canon John Gray, parish priest of Saint Peter`s, Morningside, Edinburgh; and of Mark André Raffalovich.
Correspondence and papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Correspondence and papers of Patrick William Campbell, Writer to the Signet.
Includes material on investments in Argentina, genealogy, biography and poetry.