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A copy of Alexander Monro's 'Essay on female conduct' (MS.6658), incorporating the corrections and containing most of the additional material, made by Margaret Monro, in accordance with her father's intentions.
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Copies of ‘Ane essay on the office of notary’.
The authors name is not known.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
‘Essay for the Rhetoric Class upon the Origin of Superstition’, by John Lawson, United Presbyterian minister of the 1st charge in Selkirk, 1850-1896.
John Lawson attended Edinburgh University from 1841/1842 until at least 1845 and the Rhetoric class which he attended was probably that of Professor William Spalding thus dating his essay to ?1842-?1845. On the versos of folios 21-24 is a Knoweparke Library catalogue in an older hand of the same John Lawson.
Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.
The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).
'Essay on the application of steam to the purposes of navigation'; a fair copy by James Rennie of his prize essay.
In an introductory note (folio ii verso), James Rennie states that he could not transcribe ‘several important particulars, which he has in the Scroll Copy'.
Essays and other papers of William Myrtle, author of ‘The plagiarist’, chiefly written while he was a student at Edinburgh University (1877-1880).
Essays (historical and other), biographies, reminiscences, and other works by John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Advocate.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Four essays on economics and moral philosophy by Patrick J Stirling, written while he was a student at St Andrews in 1828.
There are brief comments by Thomas Chalmers at the end of the first three essays.
Holograph essay on early poetry in England by Thomas Campbell, not the same as his published 'Essay on English poetry' but having the same beginning and containing other similar passages.
Parts of folios 3, 7, and 8 have been cut away, but the text remaining is continuous.
Holograph manuscript of Ewen Maclachlan or McLachlan, the Celtic scholar, containing Irish literature.
Manuscript of an apparently unpublished essay by William Cross[e], 'Some considerations by way of Essay, upon the means of civilizing the Highlands and extinguishing Jacobitism in Scotland'.
The author of the essay, who was Sheriff of Lanark and Professor of Law at Glasgow, recommends a policy of severity, to be enforced by garrisons of troops.
Manuscripts and typescripts of talks and essays of James Archibald Campbell of Achanduin and Barbreck (1854-1926).
Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc.
‘Metaphysic the science of the absolute’, an essay by Richard B Haldane, in his autograph.
According to a note in pencil in the hand of Richard B Haldane at folio i, dated 1914, this appears to have been the essay which he wrote in 1876 whilst a student at Edinburgh University for the Bruce of Grangehill prize and Falkland medal.
The text is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1), and begins with a preface (folio 1) and an introduction (folio 4).