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Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters and poems of George Bruce.
Includes papers of Ian McNab concerning George Bruce and Fraserburgh.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Letters, journal and notes of the Reverend William Anderson, Missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Jamaica and Old Calabar.
Letters, notes, and fragments in the autograph of Lord Henry Brougham.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
Letters of and concerning the Angus family.
Letters, 1904-1916, of and concerning Stewart and Archie Angus to their parents, David and Mary Angus
letters, 1921-1939, of David and Mary Angus to their daughter, Jean Tatham
letters, 1931-1936, of Nancy Angus to Jean Tatham.
With notes of Anne Proctor.
Letters of celebrities, some accompanied by transcripts (not wholly accurate), notes, printed matter, and portraits.
Letters of David Livingstone written to James MacLehose, Glasgow, and Mrs Sewell, shortly after he went out to Africa, describing his work and adventures in Bechuanaland.
The letters are preceded by a descriptive note, 1937, and typescripts of the letters.
Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle, with a few of Mary Carlyle Aitken, afterwards Carlyle.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
Letters to John Duncan Hamilton of Glasgow, mostly on literary matters.
Letters to John Philp Wood, antiquary, with a bound volume entitled `Collections for the History of Cramond`.
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott; with a list of contents.
These letters, with those in the Abbotsford Collection (MSS.865-869), must make up almost the whole correspondence addressed to Sir Walter Scott.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates of David Irving and others concerning payment of the Poor Rate.
Letters, typescripts of lectures, diagrams, notes, and miscellaneous papers of Sir Patrick Geddes, Sociologist and Town Planner, and of his son Dr Arthur Geddes.
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).
With notes on John Williams by the Earl of Buchan, and a modern transcript of a fourteenth 'letter' not printed in the book.
'Lettre écrite au duc de Perth', ([Paris], 1712), by Father Richard Hay, with extensive manuscript notes and corrections in the hand of the author.
The manuscript notes in this copy differ considerably from those, also in Father Richard Hay's hand, on another copy of this pamphlet, in MS.2936, folio 155.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.