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Letters and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Letters written by John Williams, mineral engineer, to the Earl of Buchan, bound at the end of Williams’ 'An account of some remarkable ancient ruins lately discovered in the Highlands .. .in a series of letters' (Edinburgh, 1777).
With notes on John Williams by the Earl of Buchan, and a modern transcript of a fourteenth 'letter' not printed in the book.
'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.
The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.
'List of books printed in Scotland before 1700’ (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1904) by Harry G Aldis, interleaved, with additions and corrections by George Pyper Johnston.
Literary papers of George Blake.
Includes correspondence, typescripts of novels published and unpublished, play-scripts, a diary of a visit to the United States, first copies of published works of fiction and non-fiction. Also includes notes on Blake, copies of articles by him and correspondence and papers of Christopher Dalgleish accumulated in the course of an uncompleted dissertation.
'Lives of the most eminent British painters, sculptors, and architects', by Allan Cunningham, various editions, (London, 1830-1839), 6 volumes, interleaved, with original letters to the author and others (1829-1837), copies of letters (1710-1830) and notes in the autograph of his son Francis, printed cuttings, and portraits.
This material was collected by the author, Allan Cunningham, and his son with a view to a new edition. Loose papers have been pasted into the interleaved volumes or collected in a separate volume (MS.832).
Manuscript and printed material chiefly concerning the etymology of place-names and surnames, compiled by James Brown Johnston.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Microfilm of collections of canntaireachd and piobaireachd.
The contents are as follows:
‘Canntaireachd: articulate music’ by John Francis Campbell (Glasgow, 1880), with manuscript notes, [1880, or after], by Alexander K Cameron (MS.9614);
"Collection of piobaireachd or pipe tunes as verbally taught by the M'Crummen Pipers" by Neil MacLeod (Edinburgh, 1880), with manuscript corrections by Simon Fraser, and other notes by Alexander K Cameron, [1880, or after] (MS.9615).
Microfilm of 'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
Microfilm of John Philp Wood’s frequently annotated copy of ‘A view of the political state of Scotland at the late General Election’ (Edinburgh, 1790), containing his signature dated 1790 at the half-title page, amendments and notes, mainly of deaths of electors, and names of later electors added in the margins and on the endpapers, with various dates from 1790 to 1804.
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Microfilm of ‘The Earl of Gowrie: a tragedy’ (London, 1845) by James White; with considerable manuscript alterations, circa 1846, by the author.
Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;
Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;
Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;
Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;
Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.
'Monarchicke tragedies’ (London, 1607) by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, containing an autograph sonnet of William Drummond of Hawthornden to Alexander, and marginal notes, marking parallel passages chiefly from Sir Philip Sydney’s ‘Arcadia’.
‘Opera omnia’ (Leyden, 1725) by George Buchanan, with occasional manuscript notes by Thomas Ruddiman.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Papers, including correspondence, of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Papers of James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, concerning administration in Wei Hai Wei, and Chinese art and literature.
Papers of Magnus Magnusson.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.