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Modern settings of traditional street cries, chiefly of London, and of some ballads.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22135-22136
Dates:
1911-1918, undated.
Notebook containing obituary tributes, to the novelist, Thomas Hardy, and including the manuscript of a tribute by Ramsay MacDonald, January 1928, for the ‘Yorkshire Evening News’ and a cutting of the tribute as printed in the newspaper.
Item
Identifier: MS.25275
Dates:
1928.
Papers from and relating to the Scottish Foreign Mission records.
Series
Identifier: MS.8990(A)-(C)
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers from the collection of Thomas Ruddiman.
File
Identifier: MS.2918
Scope and Contents
Numbers (i), (iv)-(vi) are in Thomas Ruddiman's hand, and some of the others are doubtless copied from his drafting.(i) Epitaph on Sir George Ogilvie, 1st Baronet of Barras.(ii) 'Presbyter Reformatus ad Reginam', Latin Second Asclepiadeans, signed 'Nabothus Chamaeleon' and inscribed by the author to Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath.(iii) Printed address of the corporation and people of Kirkwall to Alexander Geddes, a bailie of that town, to accompany a...
Dates:
18th century.
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
File
Identifier: MS.21880
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Unfinished copy of 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Psalm 65) by Thomas H Collinson, an exercise for the degree of Bachelor of Music, Oxford, 1877 (folio 1), followed by drafts of several of the sections (folio 68). The unfinished parts of the scoring have been supplied in pencil, apparently by the composer's son Francis M Collinson. Folios 21-24 appear to be from an earlier copy in the composer's autograph.(ii) Setting for choir and...
Dates:
1877-1928, undated.
Papers, printed and manuscript, relating to the claim of Colonel William Fullarton of Glenquich to the title and dignity of Lord Spynie.
File
Identifier: MS.116
Scope and Contents
Includes the remarks of Lord Hailes on the Spynie peerage case (folio 92), and copies of deeds relating to the lands of the Abbey of Lindores, 1592, 1736, 1738 and 1743 (folio 130).
Dates:
1592, 1736-1743, 1784-1785.
‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.
Item
Identifier: MS.1807
Scope and Contents
Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.
Dates:
1872-1873.
Part printed, part manuscript volume of 'History of Cricket in Perth from 1812 to 1894' by William Sievwright.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14567
Scope and Contents
The volume here contains the text for 'History of Cricket in Perth from 1812 to 1894' by William Sievwright. It gives a history of cricket in the area (largely surrounding the Perth Cricket Club), analyses of matches played, information about the cricketers and statistics.
The first 128 pages of the volume are printed, while pages 129-413 are manuscript. It is thought that the author ran out of funds to complete the printing of the book, so completed the work in his own hand. ...
Dates:
1896.
Poetry notebooks and other papers of Robert Crawford (1877-1931).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26023-26026
Scope and Contents
Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.
Dates:
1920-1931, undated.
Prices of different sorts of grain in the counties of Berwick, Clackmannan, Edinburgh, Fife and Stirling, printed and manuscript, with newspaper-cuttings regarding court cases.
File
Identifier: MS.2261
Dates:
1794-1856.
Printed and manuscript material concerning mathematics, compiled circa 1785 by Thomas White, schoolmaster in Dumfries.
File
Identifier: MS.15520
Scope and Contents
The volume consists of Bernard de Fontenelle, ‘The life of Sir Isaac Newton’ (folio 3); John Lawson, ‘A synopsis of all the data for the construction of triangles’ (folio 17); and John Landen, ‘Observations on converging series’ (folio 29).The remaining material is in manuscript: 'An investigation of the theorem on which the foregoing operations [i.e. Landen's article] are grounded' (folio 45); 'Geometrical analysis' a general criticism of the work of Thomas Simpson (folio 63);...
Dates:
1691-1781.
Printed and manuscript papers concerning the Jacobite rebellion, collected by John Blair, Canongate, Edinburgh, who was at first a Jacobite, but later became a Government spy.
Series
Identifier: MSS.487-490
Dates:
1715-1750.
Printed pamphlet by Sir Gilbert Elliot 2nd Baronet, Lord Minto, entitled ‘Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh’, [1752], with manuscript alterations and additions possibly in the hand of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
Item
Identifier: MS.19979
Scope and Contents
The proposals concern the need for certain public buildings, including those which eventually became Register House, the Signet Library, the Court of Session, and the North Bridge.
Dates:
[1752, or after.]
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.6.7
Dates:
1734-1737.
Printed proof of “Carle, now the King’s come!”, with corrections in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph, followed by a manuscript Latin version of the song [?1822].
Series
Identifier: MSS.1665-1666
Dates:
1822, undated.
‘‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan (Elzevir, 1668), interleaved and annotated in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.5.21-33.5.22
Dates:
1668.