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Papers of George Douglas Brown.
File
Identifier: Acc.6804
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
school essay, "Science and Intellectual Philosophy; their Aims and Relations"
letter of Brown, on the death of his mother
notes and transcriptions, undated, of Brown.
Dates:
circa 1890-circa 1902.
Papers of James Aitkins, Bishop of Galloway.
File
Identifier: MS.3012
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1679-1685, undated, to James Aitkins, with copies of two letters written by him. Printed in ‘Miscellany III’, ‘Scottish History Society', 2nd series, volume xix (1919), edited by William Douglas. (Folio 1.)(ii) Birthday exhortation to James, Duke of York, probably written between 1662 and 1671. (Folio 31.)(iii) Instructions, 1636, signed by Charles I, regarding the denunciation of the Priory of St Andrews, the...
Dates:
1636-1709, undated.
Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
Papers of John P Watson and his son, both Writers to the Signet.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10501
Scope and Contents
Papers include letters, scrapbooks and notes, many concerning the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Dates:
1906-1994.
Papers of John Purves.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7203
Scope and Contents
Comprising notes on Italian and English literature and letters from various correspondents, on literary and academic matters.
Dates:
1907-1960.
Papers of Laurie Flynn, concerning alleged police corruption and racism.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12650
Dates:
circa 1992-2002.
Papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6120
Scope and Contents
Including:
1. typescript of note, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, on lady doctors
2. typescripts, 20th century, of works of fiction and essays on feminisim of Naomi Mitchison, with books
3. 2 letters, 1915, of Mary E Haldane to Naomi Mitchison.
Dates:
circa 1880 to 20th century.
Papers of Peter McOmish Dott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8531
Scope and Contents
Including diaries, notes and essays on socialism and art history and appreciation. With correspondence of Peter M Dott to Eric Dott.
Dates:
1889-1931.
Papers of Sir Ilay Campbell, Baronet, Lord Succoth.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3078-3080
Dates:
1762-1763, 1766, 1786.
Papers of Sir Steven Runciman, including correspondence, diaries, photographs, and lectures.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13883
Dates:
1910-2000.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.545
Scope and Contents
Included are:(i) Commission by the Marquess of Montrose to Sir James Lamont, 14th of that Ilk, to raise the fencible men in the Sheriffdom of Argyll (contemporary copy), 1645 (folio 1);(ii) ‘Articles of Capitulatione aggreed upon betuixt James Campbell of Ardkinlas ... and Sir James Lamount of Inuerin, Knight, ... annent the surrender and overgiving of his garison at Toward. At Auchevullin, the 3 of Junii, 1646’ (contemporary copy); the document is printed from...
Dates:
1645-1734.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.
Dates:
1946-1982.
Papers of the Rymour Club, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: MS.9746
Scope and Contents
The papers contain a version of "The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow" contributed by Duncan Fraser, and copies from a collection of rhymes made by William Findlay, with notes and a letter of Alan Reid, secretary of the Club.
Dates:
1904-1907.
Papers of William Bell concerning his research on Henry Bell.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.278
Dates:
1899-1978.
Papers relating to sedition, formerly part of the papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
File
Identifier: MS.3011
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Notes of the speeches and opinions of the Court at the trial of Charles Sinclair for sedition at Edinburgh, 1794; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 778 (folio i);(ii) Memorandum for Dundas on the trial of Thomas Muir for sedition at Edinburgh, 1793; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 118 (folio 49);(iii) List of papers on treasonable...
Dates:
1793-1799.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.
Photocopies of notes and correspondence concerning George Davie, "The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect".
File
Identifier: Acc.9288
Dates:
1986.
Photocopies of typescript transcriptions of letters of Thomas Telford to Andrew Little and other members of the Little family, with letters relating to Telford.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12871
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and extracts from letterbooks of Joseph Mitchell.
Dates:
1782-1845.
Photocopy of a letter, undated, of Robert Louis Stevenson to his mother, Margaret Stevenson.
File
Identifier: Acc.9506
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of notes, 1894 and undated, concerning Stevenson by Charles Baxter and A S Neilson.
Dates:
1894 and undated.
Photostats of manuscripts of Edmund Castell, the Semitic scholar.
File
Identifier: MS.3589
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Photostats of manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, illustrating Edmund Castell's use of shorthand, namely, Dd.xi.39, page 5 and odd scraps; Dd.vi.4, pages 2-3, 30-45, 52-53, 60-63, 66-87, 90-101, 114-115, 118-121, 130-131, 136-145, 148-157, 164-169, 172-173, 176-181, 206-207, 366-367, 370-377, 382-421, 424-429, 431-432, 436-461. The pages after page 206 are with some exceptions inverted in the original, and the photostats have been...
Dates:
1651-1672.
Printed letter of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens and John Forster, with an autograph note of Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10219
Dates:
1855.