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13 letters to Robert Bruce.
Concerning political and personal matters. Correspondents include Sir Alexander Gray and Sir Stafford Cripps.
With associated testimonials and copies of four letters of Bruce.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Correspondence of Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb.
Concerning legal, political and personal matters.
With testimonials, 1929-1934, for Prof Gibb.
Correspondence of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning alteration specifications to the Advocates Library and accounts for the installation of heating apparatus.
Formal documents from the papers of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod.
Letter to, and testimonial in favour of, 1913, Archibald Turnbull, by George Saintsbury.
With copy of letter, 1977, of Archibald Turnbull to Alastair Fowler, containing recollections of Saintsbury.
'List of applicants for situations in the Edinburgh Academy, 1824'; with letters and testimonials of some of the applicants, addressed to Sir Walter Scott as one of the Committee of Management of the new school.
The testimonials are supplememtary to the printed testimonials, Sir Walter Scott's copies of which are in the Department of Printed books.
Microfilm of testimonial for Sir James Balfour of Denmilne by the English College of Arms, followed by the signatures and mottoes of the various heralds and pursuivants below paintings of their own arms.
Military testimonial in favour of Lieutenant Thomas Patrick Ballingall, MC, Machine Gun Corps, and his discharge papers.
Includes a copy of "Peary: In Memoriam" an elegy on the death in action of James Pearson, late of George Watson`s [Boys] College. Edinburgh, [by G. N. Ballingall].
Papers, circa 1852-1872, of William Strathhenry Kemp.
Includes historical and literary lectures and essays, and addresses to pupils at Falkirk Grammar School and Glasgow High School.
With papers, 1897-1904, of Robina Jane Kemp, including certificates and testimonials.
Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
Papers of David Angus.
Concerning his life and work in South America and Damaraland.
Papers of David Angus, civil engineer, relating to his life and work in South America and Damaraland, 1882-1926, with some later material; and miscellaneous papers and diaries of Nancy Angus, his daughter, 1907-1960.
Papers of Robert Kemp, his father, the Reverend Arnold L Kemp and other members of the family.
Includes diaries, testimonials and photographs.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Single letters and small collections of letters of nineteenth-century artists.
Writers include Sir William Allan, Sir John Watson Gordon, Sir Henry Raeburn, Archibald G Reid and David Roberts. There is also a group of letters, 1853-1893, undated, to John Pettie from a variety of artists and authors and a small collection of testimonials, 1858, in favour of the artist Thomas Fairbairn.
Staff applications to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Testimonial and references in favour of Marion Lochhead from her lecturers at the University of Glasgow.
Testimonial for Sir James Balfour of Denmilne by the English College of Arms, followed by the signatures and mottoes of the various heralds and pursuivants below paintings of their own arms.
The manuscript was displayed in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891.
Testimonials and other notices, 1837, concerning the election of David Laing as Librarian of the Signet Library.
With two annontated copies (one a proof), 1890, of "History of the Society of Writers to... [the] Signet".
Transcripts made in the early nineteenth century (see watermarks) of Mey and Tarbat charters and inventories, titled 'Cartularium Eccles. Cathedral. Rossensis'.
The contents are as follows. (i) Excerpts from an inventory dated 1641 of charters then in the House of Mey and from other inventories of charters covering the period 1464-1637, relating to the Sinclairs of Mey and to neighbouring lands (folio 1), with notes regarding rights of Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, 1666, and a testimonial regarding Tarrell, 1382 (folio 13); (ii) Copies of charters in Tarbat House, 1457-1642, undated.