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Printed general correspondence and papers concerning the Library and members of the Faculty of Advocates, collected by David Constable, Advocate.
File
Identifier: F.R.144
Dates:
1820-1824.
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.7
Dates:
1734-1737.
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
Six letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Fergusson.
File
Identifier: MS.568
Scope and Contents
The letters are in continuation of MSS.555-556.
Dates:
1819-1822.
Small miscellaneous collection of letters and papers (some printed) including letters to and concerning Major-General Sir Neil Campbell and his nephew and biographer Archibald N C Maclachlan.
File
Identifier: MS.15384
Scope and Contents
Many of the items appear to have been previously pasted into an album, or albums.
Dates:
1790, 1809-1847, 1867-1890.
Small miscellany of letters and papers to Hugh Sharp, together with some printed items, formerly contained in the Hugh Sharp Collection (MSS.3303-3326).
File
Identifier: MS.9611
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is concerned with the publication of books relating to the works of Lewis Carroll, and with Hugh Sharp's attempts to purchase various rare books and first editions.
Dates:
1930-1936.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.