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Transcripts of letters of Charles Taylor.
Describe life as a student at the Collège des Ecossais, Montpellier.
Transcripts of letters of Joanna Baillie to Sir Walter Scott in the collection of the National Library of Scotland.
Includes introduction and notes by Judith B Slagle.
Transcripts of letters of or concerning John Leyden.
The letters are chiefly addressed to Richard Heber, and include some written by William Erskine regarding the collection and preservation of John Leyden's writings, 1812-[1817].
Transcripts of the majority of the letters of Sir Walter Scott to William Laidlaw contained in MS.969.
Two letters each of Robert Garioch and George Campbell Hay to Hamish Henderson.
With autograph transcripts, undated, of Garioch for the School of Scottish Studies.
Two letters of J G Lockhart to James Ballantyne.
Letters concern Ballantyne`s relationship with Sir Walter Scott and memoranda of Scott to be supplied by Ballantyne for the use of Lockhart in his projected biography.
Includes notes on the letters by Alexander Ballantyne and transcripts of three letters of Scott to James Ballantyne.
Two letters of John Salmond from New Zealand on matters relating to emigration and settlement of the Dunedin and Otago areas.
Includes transcriptions, supporting documentation and copies of family photographs.
Typed letter from Thomas Innes of Learney, advocate, to W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates’ library, 30 May 1921, referring to the provenance of a portrait of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, at Kingcausie; and a typed transcript (folio 4) of an account of the duel between Sir Alexander Boswell, Baronet, and James Stuart of Dunearn, 1822, written by Mary Ann, daughter of Claud Boswell, Lord Balmuto, with a transcript of a related letter.
The originals were owned by Miss E B Irvine-Fortescue of Kingcausie in 1921.
Typed transcript of a letter of David Roberts to Wentworth Dilke.
Typed transcripts of letters to John Mackenzie of Delvine, Advocate, from the wife and son of the Reverend Dr Alexander Monro, and from Alexander Monro, Provost of St Salvator’s College, St. Andrews.
Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.
The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.
The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.