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Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Miscellaneous papers consisting mostly of indexes to works of genealogical interest in the possession of Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane (folio 2), indexes to his copies of cartularies and other registers of mediaeval Scottish religious houses (folio 30), followed by some rentals of church lands and church appointments in the north of Scotland (folio 94) written, from information at folio 95 verso, about 1593.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Miscellaneous small collections.
The manuscript includes a group of letters about Lady Nairne's songs, one of which, from Henrietta Trelss (folio 188) was published by George Henderson, ‘Lady Nairne and her songs’, page 32.
Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.
The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).
Negative microfilm of papers of, concerning, or collected by, Sir Walter Scott.
Notes on various Greek and Latin authors and on Greek language by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University, and others.
Order for the Massacre of Glencoe: letter of Major Robert Duncanson to Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, ordering him to fall on the Macdonalds of Glencoe and destroy them.
Original manuscript of ‘Off in a boat’, the description of a boating holiday off the west coast of Scotland by the novelist, Neil Gunn.
Orkney genealogies and anecdotes `collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive`.
Papers, 1672-1708, of Hew Campbell, later of Barquharrie, son of Sir Hugh Campbell of Cessnock, with a letter, 1756, of Hew Campbell to his son, Hugh Campbell of Mayfield.
The papers consist chiefly of letters written to Hew Campbell as a merchant in Paris by his father and brothers and Scottish men of business at home and in France. They treat mainly of business, mercantile and personal, but contain references to current events.
Papers and correspondence of literary figures.
Includes:
inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University
"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham
"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson
With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).
Papers and typescripts concerning mainly the Liston family, relations of Sir Robert Liston.
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 from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Papers of Alan Bold.
Includes manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and short stories, undated, and 180 letters, 1979-1990, to Bold on literary matters, including his "MacDiamrid; a Critical Biography".
Papers of Alan Bold, David Morrison, and Tom Scott.
Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.
With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.
Papers of Alan Reid, musician, author, and editor.
Papers of and concerning Eric Linklater.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of plays, novels and poems, with over 500 letters of and to various correspondents.
Papers of and concerning Sir John Richmond, containing correspondence, professional and related material.
Concerning Richmond`s poetry and literary work, his connection with Glasgow artists and the art world in general.
Includes letters of Neil Munro, Arnold Bennett and Hilair Belloc.