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Letters, chiefly of and to Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: MS.7199
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Twenty-seven letters, 1798-1799, of Sir J T Duckworth to General Sir Charles Stuart, and four letters, 1798-1799, of Lord Keith to General Stuart (folio 1);(ii) Two letters, 1803-1804, of Hugh Elliot to Sir John Acton (folio 49);(iii) Eight letters, 1804, of Admiral Lord Alan Gardner to Viscount Melville (folio 54);(iv) Letter, 1795, of George III to Viscount Melville (folio 71); printed in John Holland Rose,...
Dates:
1793-1808.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Series
Identifier: MS.23141(i)-(ii)
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century, undated.
Letters of celebrities, some accompanied by transcripts (not wholly accurate), notes, printed matter, and portraits.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3390-3399
Dates:
1745-1852, undated.
Letters of members of the Walker family of Dundonald, Ayrshire.
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Identifier: Acc.12085
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from relations in America and one reporting on anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh 1779, also includes a 19th century transcript (and 20th century typescript copy) of a journal of Josiah Walker, originally written in 1780.
Dates:
circa 1772-1783.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, with associated correspondence, and transcripts of letters of Scott and Constable.
File
Identifier: MS.23117
Dates:
1800-1827.
Letters to Sir Sidney Colvin, relating chiefly to Robert Louis Stevenson.
File
Identifier: MS.3355
Scope and Contents
Each letter is accompanied by a typed transcript.
Dates:
1895-1934, undated.
Letters written by John Williams, mineral engineer, to the Earl of Buchan, bound at the end of Williams’ 'An account of some remarkable ancient ruins lately discovered in the Highlands .. .in a series of letters' (Edinburgh, 1777).
File
Identifier: MS.996
Scope and Contents
With notes on John Williams by the Earl of Buchan, and a modern transcript of a fourteenth 'letter' not printed in the book.
Dates:
1790, undated.
‘Lettres Francaises, 1566-1589’, consisting chiefly of eighteenth-century transcripts of the correspondence of La Mothe Fénelon, French Ambassador in England.
Series
Identifier: MSS.571-572
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1561-1589, 1839.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents
It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates:
1698-1901.
Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9172-9225
Dates:
1896-1959, undated.
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
Series
Identifier: MSS.278-318
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of and relating to James Kennaway.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12760/1-86
Dates:
[1937]-1994, undated.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.3248
Scope and Contents
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.
Dates:
18th century-2nd quarter of 20th century.
Memoir of George Romanes in the form of a letter to his son Professor George Romanes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12749
Scope and Contents
Memoir covers some Romanes family history, George Romanes` early life in Edinburgh, his early work as a civil engineer in Egypt and Calgary and war service with the Royal Engineers from 1917-1919. Includes transcript.
Dates:
1957.
Microfilm and partial photocopy of transcripts of letters of Marie de Rabutin Chantal to her daughter.
File
Identifier: Acc.8186- is now Rare Book Division.
Dates:
1671-1696.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of Elizabethan letters and transcripts of the register of Arbroath Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.175
Scope and Contents
Elizabethan letters (Adv.MS.1.2.2);
Transcripts, 1815, by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of the register, 13th century-16th century, of the abbey of Arbroath and of various charters, 1213-1246. (Adv.MS.9A.1.18).
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
Microfilm of transcript of correspondence, memorials, and other documents regarding the Irish Bible printed at the expense of the Honourable Robert Boyle, its distribution in the Scottish Highlands, and the creation there of libraries and schools, with reference to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.289
Dates:
1678-1708.
Miscellaneous collection of letters and other papers of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries.
Series
Identifier: MS.786
Dates:
1791-1850, undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous letters and papers chiefly of the seventeenth century and chiefly relating to affairs in Scotland.
File
Identifier: MS.3368
Scope and Contents
There are some transcripts, notes, and a table of contents in a modern hand.
Dates:
1545-1745.
Notes of Dr Alexander Mitchell for a biography of John Gibson Lockhart, taken chiefly from manuscript material in the National Library of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5210-5265
Scope and Contents
The notes fill fifty-four notebooks (MSS.5210-5263).
MSS.5264-5265 contain miscellaneous correspondence and papers concerning John Gibson Lockhart.
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.