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Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Notes concerning heraldry, and kindred subjects, some of them historical, by Laurence Dalton, Norroy King of Arms.
The notes were begun, according to a note on folio i, 'le ij jour de auous en Lan de christ mvcxlvj'. It includes a copy of Symphorien Champier's works, 'Le Fondement et Origine des Tiltres de Noblesse' (folio 94 verso) and 'Le Dialogue de Noblesse' (folio 123). A note (folio 94 verso) in the hand of the Anstis of MS.2513 says, 'I have a fairer Copy of this Treatise wrote on Parchment numbred Q 21'. Q 21 may be MS.2513. There is a 'Syllabus Contentorum' (folios ii-iii) in the same hand.
Notes of Alastair Shanks on the history of the Anderson and Woodman Library, Strichen, Aberdeenshire.
Page from the Fourth Series (France) of ‘Tales of a Grandfather’ by Sir Walter Scott, in his autograph, together with relevant correspondence and a note by Sir William Fraser.
Paper delivered by Robert Donaldson to Edinburgh Bibliographical Society on its origins and early history.
With research notes.
Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
Papers concerning the Mackenzies, MacRaes and Mathesons of Lochalsh and Kintail, Wester Ross, collected by Captain Alexander and Betsy Matheson.
Concerning genealogy, history and traditions of the families.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Papers of and relating to Michael Moncrieff Stuart.
Mainly concerning his life in India and his research into Scotish-Indian history.
Papers of Dr Alasdair MacLean, historian and genealogist.
Papers of Dr Donald Smith (1756-1805).
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Papers of John Cranna of the Scottish Unionist Association.
Papers of Michael M Stuart.
Papers of Michael Moncrieff Staurt, CIE OBE concerning his career in India and East Pakistan, 1927-1950, and his research into the Scottish Nabobs and other matters concerning the history of India, circa 1950-1986.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Pedigree of the family of Meikle, by William Percy Meikle, 1933, amended in 1939, with notes, 1948.
Photocopies, 1967, of notes, 1965, by J O French on the history of the Scottish lodges of the United Operative Plumbers’ Association of Great Britain, predecessor of the Plumbers' Trade Union.
Covers the period 1865-1965. The Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow No.1 and Greenock lodges are described in the typescript.