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Volume of printed reports, newspaper-cuttings, and other papers, 1865-1914, collected by Daniel William Kemp, in connection with the discussion of proposals for a National Library of Scotland by the Convention of Royal Burghs in 1902 and Kemp's later efforts to further the object.
File
Identifier: MS.3575
Scope and Contents
Also contains Daniel William Kemp's correspondence, 1903, 1912 (numbers 26-27, 30, 32-34, 40-41).
Dates:
1865-1914.
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Dates:
[1787, or after.]
Volume of `Scotch and Irish Airs Collected and Written by Mr S... For the Violin andc`, copied by William Robertson.
Item
Identifier: Dep.194- is now Acc.8815.
Dates:
1811.
Volume of Scottish tunes (mainly for bagpipes), with possible variations, compiled by Maggie A Fletcher.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12380
Dates:
1896.
Volume of sermons, probably by Hary Inglis, of Exmagirdle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11255
Dates:
1796-1799.
Volume of specimens of copperplate handwriting with prefatory note: 'the following pieces were written as common copies, in presence of a numerous class, by a young gentleman (aged 11 years), pupil of Mr. Paton, 58, Broad Street, 1831.'
Item
Identifier: MS.8930
Scope and Contents
The texts, written in a fine copperplate hand, are long maxims arranged as an alphabet by the first word.
Dates:
1831.
Volume of specimens of handwriting by William Pritchard.
File
Identifier: Acc.3120- is now MS.8929.
Dates:
1826-1833.
Volume of speeches, tracts and other papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.2
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Part of a speech to the English Parliament on the financial affairs of James I, probably by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, ?1610 (folio 1).(ii) Copy, dated 1613, of Salisbury`s speech to Parliament, 15 February 1610. For summaries, see ‘A Life of Robert Cecil’, pages 297-299, and ‘Parliamentary Debates in 1610’, pages 1-9 (folio 4).(iii) Notes on rumoured preparations by Catholic forces, by Mr Foster,...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Volume of strathspeys, reels, jigs and hornpipes, for violin, once owned by Lewis H Millar, Musical Director, People`s Palace, Dundee.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12487
Dates:
circa 1880.
Volume of topographical surveys.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates:
1793-1801.
Volume of transcripts and notes of and relating to James Thomson, made by an indentified Kelso enthusiast for Thomson, including transcripts of letters to his friend, Dr Cranstoun, biographical notes and queries, and printed reports of anniversary meetings of the Ednam Club to celebrate the poet`s birthday in 1812 and 1813.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13103
Dates:
1725-1827, and undated.
Volume of unpublished poetry by Henry Murray Scott, a relative of the 4th Duke of Atholl.
File
Identifier: Acc.13130
Scope and Contents
Three soft-cover notebooks, bound in one volume, containing poems, drafts of poems and some translations probably by Henry Murray Scott. The first notebook has entries dating from 31 October 1827 to 26 March 1828, some of the poems were written in Hanau, Germany, (page 1); the second notebook dates from 29 March to 14 November 1828 (page 90); the third notebook dates from 24 November 1828 to 26 June 1832 (page 156). The three notebooks are numbered and sequentially paginated, possibly by a...
Dates:
1827-1832.
Volume of verses, by various writers, all amateur and some possibly juvenile.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12706
Dates:
circa 1850.
Volume on knights and knighthood.
Item
Identifier: Acc.942- is now MS.2517.
Dates:
16th-17th century.
Volume One [Counties of Aberdeen to Berwick] of "Political State of Scotland 1788 and 1789" compiled by Lawrence Hill, Writer to the Signet, for William Adam of Blairadam.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10288
Dates:
circa 1789.
Volume one of copy, made for Thomas Innes, of the "Cartularium Ecclesiae Glasguensis".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9488- is now Mf.MSS.445
Dates:
18th century.
Volume one of "The Bell", manuscript magazine of the St James`s Young Men`s Literary Society, Leith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9265
Dates:
1894.
Volume, stamped on the spine `Papers relating to Cromwell and the Regicides`, containing materials assembled by George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.28
Scope and Contents
The date is given on folio 34 verso. The papers consist of:(i) notes and extracts relating to the history of Great Britain in the mid 17th century, in particular notes of treaties with other countries, 1654, and their provisions (folio 1), extracts from the Books of the Privy Council, 1660 (folio 7) and notes and extracts concerning the Regicides 1660-1662 (folio 12); (ii) a chronological list, compiled apparently about the same time, of treaties between...
Dates:
1792.
Volume titled ‘Sketches of Members of the Bar’ drawn by Colonel Thomas Innes of Learney, Advocate.
Item
Identifier: F.R.362
Dates:
[Circa 1840.]
Volume two of Nathaniel Wraxell`s, `Journey into Scotland`.
Item
Identifier: Acc.1436- is now MS.3108.
Dates:
1813.
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes; with correspondence and other papers of Rattray.
Series
Identifier: MS.14246 (1)-(2)
Dates:
1819-1922, undated.
"Volume V", notes of lectures on Scots Law given by David Hume.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8394- is now Adv.MS.81.6.42
Dates:
circa 1803.
Volume VII of Major-General Douglas Wimberley, "Scottish Soldier".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7948
Dates:
1981.