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Photocopies of transcripts, 1849-1894, of "Mundell Family Extracts from Loch Broom and Ullapool Parish Kirk Session Records"

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Identifier: Acc.10874
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With copies of related letters, 1975, of James R Matheson.

Dates: 1849-1894 and 1975.

Photocopy of a letter of Thomas Ruddiman to Bishop Archibald Campbell.

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Identifier: Acc.8057
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Ruddiman explains why the Advocates` Library cannot buy his books and coins. With a list of the books which are not in the Advocates` Library.

Dates: 1738.

Photocopy of memorandum book of David Geddes, father of Andrew Geddes, painter.

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Identifier: Acc.11863
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Contains lists of David Geddes`s paintings, prints and books.

Dates: 1777-1793.

Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.

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Identifier: MS.1812
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From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.

Dates: 1819-1821.

Photostat of the Order Book of the Stewart of Appin Clan Regiment, from 11 October 1745 to 18 January 1746, containing the orders for the whole of Prince Charles Edward's army during that period.

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Identifier: MS.3787
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The orders are followed by a list of killed and wounded of the Regiment, accounts for pay, November 1745, and a return of the strength of the companies.

Dates: 1745-1746.

Pocket-book of Augustus Charles Minchin, a graduate of Dublin University, containing accounts of walking tours in Scotland.

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Identifier: MS.6335
Scope and Contents The material is somewhat confused, but appears to fall into four parts.(i) Trips from Glasgow to Paisley, Ayr and Mauchline, 16-19 August 1818, mostly concerned with information about Robert Burns (folios 1-3, 102-105).(ii) 'My Pocketbook'; possibly plans for a walking tour starting at Rothesay and ending at Edinburgh. A circuitous route involving places in the Lothians, Fife, Perthshire, Angus, Stirlingshire and Berwickshire is indicated; factual comments on these...
Dates: 1818.

‘Political state of Dumbartonshire’, possibly drawn up in preparation for the 1780 general election.

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Identifier: MS.14848
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The manuscript gives the names of voters, the name of the person to whom the vote belongs, the description of the freehold estate, the valued and old extent of the estate, and the volume and folio of the record in Chancery where the old extent is registered.

Dates: [1780, or before.]

Portion of the autobiography of George Miller, bookseller in Haddington and Dunbar, covering the years 1803 to 1818.

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Identifier: MS.5409
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Some leaves are missing at the beginning and end of the volume.

Inserted are some letters to George Miller, printed prospectuses, subscription sheets, etc.

Dates: [1818, or after.]

Printed minutes, circulated to members, of the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland.

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Identifier: Acc.9587
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With records, 1903-1935, of fellows and scholars of the trust.

Dates: 1901-1935, 1969-1979.

`Proofs of the Subjection of Scotland to the Crowne of England`: a list of events down to 1422.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.18
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The manuscript is probably an early 16th-century copy of an older English document.

Dates: Early 16th century.

Proposals for raising a subscription among Judges and Members of the Faculty of Advocates, former pupils of David Hume as Professor of Scots Law, with a view to procuring a memorial to him on his retirement from that office.

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Identifier: MS.2976
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The proposal is signed by fifty-two subscribers, including Sir Walter Scott. Chantrey was asked to execute a bust of Hume, but was unable to undertake the commission (see Scott's letter to Chantrey of 7 September 1822, and note, in the Centenary Edition of his letters).

Dates: ?1822.

Publishers receipt book of the Faculty of Advocates Library.

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Identifier: F.R.306
Dates: Late 19th century-Early 20th century.

Receipt book for books borrowed in the Faculty of Advocates Library.

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Identifier: F.R.262
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Receipt of books borrowed. With printed forms of receipt. Receipts are crossed out. Receipts read: 'I_____ Advocate, grant me to have borrowed out of the Advocates Library ______ which I oblige me to restore betwixt and the ______ Day of _____ next to come, or the Sum of _____ in Case'.

Dates: 25 October 1718-7 January 1724.

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