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Writ under the Privy Seal pardoning Robert Wright, Edinburgh, for his Jacobite activities.
Writings of James Hogg, published by Blackie & Son in 1837, with biographical material regarding his family, supplied in connection with the Centenary Edition of his 'Works', published by the same firm in 1873.
Writings of Janet Wills, sister of William and Robert Chambers and wife of William Henry Wills.
The papers comprise accounts of a visit to Glasgow Blind Asylum (folio 1) and of experiences, real or fictitious, in Argyll (folio 5), Epping Forest (folio 10), France (folio 20), and the Rhineland (folio 28), and stories (folio 47), undated.
Writings of Robert Lochore, cordiner, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).
There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.
Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.
Writs and deeds of lands of the family of Forbes of Culloden.
Writs and other documents of the family of Halkett of Pitfirrane.
Written copy of the last speech from the scaffold of Rev. William Paul.
Concerns Paul`s Jacobite sympathies and support prior to his execution at Tyburn in 1716.
Xerox copies, 1967, of documents, 1912-1948, concerning the Railway Clerks' Association.
Xerox copies of letters to Jean, Lady Hunter, from members of the family of Sir James Hall of Dunglass.
The contents comprise a series of letters from Captain Basil Hall and his wife Margaret (folios 1-72) and another series chiefly from Helen, Lady Hall (folios 73-209).
Xerox copy of a membership card of the Labour Crusaders youth movement, in the name of Annie Macdonald.
Xerox copy of the manuscript catalogue of the library of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.
Xerox copy of the minutes of the Ardrossan Branch of the Naitonal Union of Seamen, 24 August 1919-26 March 1964; with a copy of the minutes of a District Meeting in Glasgow, 26 July 1965.
Xerox copy of the text of a lecture by Dr Anthony F Anderson to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, on the subject of Robert Davidson of Aberdeen and his pioneer work on electromagnetism.
Xeroxed typescript of Alasdair Gray`s `Lanark`, book 3, chapters 1-7.
The typescript is slightly different from the chapters as published in `Lanark`. The manuscript dedication on the title page states that the copy was given by Alasdair Gray to his friends, ---- and Frances McIlhenny, in Glasgow, xxx.
Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.
Yester papers.
Yester papers.
Yester papers.
Yester papers, and papers concerning the Jacobites.
Youthful poems of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster, begun in 1770.
The poems include satires 'On Doctor Johnson not seeing a tree till he came to Aberdeen' and 'On Doctor Johnson abusing the Scots' (folio 4), and a poem in two cantos, 'In Ridicule of Dr. Johnsons tour through the western isles of Scotland' (folio 19).