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Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.

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Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents

With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.

Dates: 1961-1965 and undated.

Xerox copies of letters to Jean, Lady Hunter, from members of the family of Sir James Hall of Dunglass.

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Identifier: MS.14196
Scope and Contents

The contents comprise a series of letters from Captain Basil Hall and his wife Margaret (folios 1-72) and another series chiefly from Helen, Lady Hall (folios 73-209).

Dates: 1807-1844.

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Poetry. 15
Typescripts. 14
Photographs. 13
Notes. 10
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Drafts. Documents. 6
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Diaries. 5
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Correspondence. 4
Lists. 4
Manuscripts. 4
Memorandums. 4
Accounts. 3
Fragments. 3
Memoirs. 3
Notebooks. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Travel journals. 3
Account books. 2
Canada. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -96.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 2
Catalogues. 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Drawings. Visual works. 2
Excerpts. 2
Extracts. 2
First World War (1914-1918). 2
Genealogies. 2
Graphs. 2
Portraits. 2
Scores 2
Scores. 2
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 2
Selkirk. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. County. 2
Snapshots. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 2
Anecdotes. 1
Annotations. 1
Argyll. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. County. 1
Arran, Island of. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - North Ayrshire. Island. Longitude: -5.2500. Latitude: 55.6000. 1
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Australia. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 135.0000. Latitude: -25.0000. 1
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Ceylon. Asia - Sri Lanka. Island. Longitude: 81.0000. Latitude: 7.0000. 1
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Château-Thierry (inhabited place). Europe - France - Picardy - Aisne. Longitude: 3.4000. Latitude: 49.0500. 1
Commonplace books. 1
Crimea. Europe - Ukraine - Krym. General region. 1
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Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 1
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Falkland Islands. South America. Dependent state. Longitude: -59.0000. Latitude: -51.7500. 1
Family papers. 1
First Jacobite Rebellion (1715). 1
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Great Highland Bagpipe music. Bagpipe music. 1
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 1
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Language
English 236
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Multiple languages 3
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Latin 1
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 29
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 13
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 11
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 7
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 6
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Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 4
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 3
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 3
Gunn, Neil Miller, author, 1891-1973 3
Hornel, Edward Atkinson, artist, 1864-1933: recipient 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 3
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 2
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 2
Edgeworth, Maria (novelist) 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Gordon, Edward Strathearn, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, 1814-1879 2
Heelis, Helen Beatrix, author, née Potter, 1866-1943 2
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 2
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Murray, John (publisher (III)) (1808-1892) 2
Neilson, George, historian and antiquary, 1858-1923 2
Pughe, William Owen, antiquary and lexicographer, pseudonym Idrison, 1759-1835: recipient 2
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 2
Scott, Walter, Writer to the Signet, 1729-1799 2
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, 1427-1496: recipient 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Aall, Jacob, Norway, politician and author, 1773-1844 1
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Aitken, Mary Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist, fl 1877-1932 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Angus, William, prebendary and sacristan of the Chapel Royal, Stirling, fl 1590 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Archer, William, critic and dramatist, 1856-1924 1
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, folklorist, 1812-1885: recipient 1
Atherstone, Edwin, author, 1788-1872 1
Baker, Sir Samuel White, Knight, traveller, 1821-1893: recipient 1
Balfour, Lewis, Minister of Colinton, 1777-1860: recipient 1
Balfour, Robert, 2nd Lord Balfour of Burleigh (succeeded 1619), d 1663: recipient 1
Balfour, Sir William, Knight, of Pitcullo, Lieutenant-General, d 1660 1
Balvaird, W, Paris, fl 1815 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
Barleus, Caspar, theologian, 1584-1648: recipient 1
Barnard, Henry, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, 1811-1900: recipient 1
Bell, Andrew, Malawi, fl 1887-1890 1
Birch, Thomas, historian, 1705-1766 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Blake, William, engraver, artist and poet, 1757-1827 1
Bodoni, Giambattista, printer and typographer, 1740-1813 1
Boodle, Adelaide A, correspondent of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, fl 1887: recipient 1
Boston, Thomas, divine, the Elder, 1676-1732 1
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 1
Boult, Sir Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983 1
Bowie, Rory, Howbeg, South Uist, fl 1866 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, Lord Chancellor, 1778–1868. 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Peter 1
Brown, Robert (Mount Pleasant Estate, Saint Vincent) 1
Brown, Samuel, founder of "itinerating libraries", 1779-1839 1
Brøndsted, Peter Oluf, Chevalier, archaeologist, 1780-1842 1
Burke, Hon Edward, 5th son of John, 9th Earl of Clanricarde, fl 1716: recipient 1
Burton, Sir Richard Francis, Knight, explorer, 1821-1890 1
Böll, Heinrich, author, 1917-1985 1
Cadogan, William, Earl Cadogan, pseudonym John Williams, d 1726 1
Cameron, Alexander K, Montana, essayist, 1882-1956 1
Cameron, Esther, correspondent of Neil Gunn, author, fl 1933: recipient 1
Cameron, Morven Catriona Smyllie, teacher and poet, Glasgow, 1930-2002 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1682-1761 1
Campbell, Archibald, Bishop of Aberdeen, d 1744 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885 1
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996: recipient 1
Campbell, Neill, Bishop of Argyll, d ? 1613: recipient 1
Campbell, Sir Ilay, 1st Baronet, of Succoth, Lord President of the Court of Session, 1734-1823: recipient 1
Campbell, Thomas (sculptor) 1
Carlyle, Alexander James, Rector of St Martin's and All Saints', Oxford, 1861-1943 1
Carrington, C Howard, correspondent of Robert Louis Stevenson, fl 1870-1894: recipient 1
Celakovský, František Ladislav, scholar, 1799-1852: recipient 1
Chalmers, George, antiquary and political writer, ? 1742-1825 1
Chalmers, Patrick, politician, 1802-1854 1
Chalmers, Thomas, Principal of New College, Edinburgh, 1780–1847: recipient 1
Chantal, Marie du Rabutin-, Marquise de Sévigné, 1626-1696 1
Charles II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1630-1685 1
Church of Scotland, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Cockburn, Robert, wine merchant, fl 1813-1821: recipient 1
Colman, Benjamin, Minister of Brattle Street Church, Boston, 1673-1747: recipient 1
Combe, George (Writer to the Signet, phrenologist) 1
Cook, Elizabeth Crosby, Hassocks, Sussex, fl 1979-1981: recipient 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944: recipient 1
Cragg, Violet Emily, wife of William Gilliat, Major, née Andrews, d 1934 1
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