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Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
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Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Papers of Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1875-1920), Munro Lecturer in Celtic, Cambridge University, relating to the preparation of editions of Gaelic texts.
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Identifier: MSS.14870-14872
Scope and Contents
Due to the War and Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin’s early death, neither work was published. The papers were used however by Professor John Fraser in publishing his collection of Quiggin’s Book of the Dean of Lismore transcripts, ‘Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore’.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.
Photocopies and translation of letter and examples of calligraphy of Marie Presot.
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Identifier: Acc.4191
Dates:
1574.
Photocopies of ten letters (some fragmentary) of Madame Tussaud from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Identifier: Acc.8001
Scope and Contents
With translations.
Dates:
1803-1804.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
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Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated
Poetical and editorial papers of Robin Fulton (1937- ).
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Identifier: MSS.27495-27498
Scope and Contents
Robin Fulton was born in Arran and became a schoolteacher. From 1967 to 1976 he edited the literary magazine 'Lines Review'. His work is mostly poetry, but also includes reviews, translations and literary studies. The papers consist of drafts and proofs of poems (MSS.27495-27497), and editorial papers for 'Lines Review' (MS.27498).
Dates:
1963-1972.
Single letters, and small collections of letters, from various correspondents.
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Identifier: MS.5319
Scope and Contents
The contents include:A letter about the Darien Company from the Earl of Cromartie, 1705; A letter from the Earl Marischal to James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, 1738; A letter from David Hume about Adam Ferguson, 1772, and translations of two Hume letters, in the hand of the philosopher, Jean le Rond D'Alembert, about the quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1766 (see also MS.5722); Letters of Dugald Stewart, many of them to Baron De...
Dates:
18th century-early 19th century.
Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Ossianic and other Gaelic matters during the year 1806.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.11
Dates:
1806.
Translation by Spring Macky of ‘Versuche und Muster...Papier zu machen’ by Jacob Christian Schaeffer, volumes 1-5.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.5A-B
Scope and Contents
Parts of the translation are in another hand of the 18th century.
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.4
Scope and Contents
Copious notes face part of the text, beginning at verso of folio xiii and ending at folio 33 verso. Thomas Ross submitted at least part of the manuscript to the Highland Society of London (see his letter to their secretary, folio iii). His hand was similar to Ewen MacLachlan’s, and in notes at folio 24 verso Sir John Sinclair attributes his work on ‘Temora’ to the latter.
The manuscript is watermarked 1804.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Reverend W...
Dates:
1807-1809, 1894, undated.
Translations from Icelandic literature into English, chiefly from Grimur Thomsen's ‘Udvalgte Sagastykker’, and apparently all made by him.
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Identifier: MS.3853
Scope and Contents
With letters of Grimur Thomsen to David Douglas, regarding his publications in the ‘North British Review’ and elsewhere, and other correspondence, 1866-1870, 1901. The translations are in very faulty English. Some are on paper watermarked 1847.
Dates:
[1846, or after], 1866-1870, 1901.
Typescript translation of questions on Buddhism submitted to the Dalai Lama by the Reverend Even Mackenzie.
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Identifier: Acc.6187
Scope and Contents
With photograph, circa 1912, of the Dalai Lama.
Dates:
1912.
Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.
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Identifier: MS.3128
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. 'Free and Impartial Reflexions of a Member of the House of Commons of England on occasion of the Speech of King George to the two Houses of the same Parliament on the 28th of October, 1745, containing a justification of the rights of the Royal House of Stuards to the Crown of Great Brittain, against the pretensions of the House of Brunswick Hannover. In a series of Letters. Letter I. At Edinburgh, 1745' (folio 1), dated London, 3 November 1745 (folio...
Dates:
1745-1746.