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Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.
Walter Macfarlane’s annotated copy of George Crawfurd’s ‘The peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1716).
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Water-colour paintings by William Gibb, the originals of the illustrations to ‘The Royal House of Stuart’.
Most of the paintings are undated, but the dates 1888 and 1889 are found on a few.
'Watercolour picture book' of Erskine Beveridge, containing a list of watercolours and drawings by the Glasgow artist, with details of their sizes, appearances in exhibitions, and sales.
Watercolours and sketches of scenes in Scotland.
Will of Thomas Ruddiman, being a holograph disposition in favour of his wife and children.
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Women, education and literature: the papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, part 3, reels 1-4 (Adam Matthew, 2001).
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Working notes by Alexander Philip, the author of several books on the calendar.
'Works, in prose and verse, of Alexander Pennecuik, Esq., of Newhall, M.D.’, volume i (Leith, 1814), containing corrections to the text and additions in the margins of many of the pages made at different times by Robert Brown of Newhall and Carlops, advocate, who edited this edition and provided an introductory memoir of the author.
According to a note at the top of the title page this was a 'Corrected Copy, for a New Edition', but no such edition appears to have been published, and the whereabouts of the 'Additions and Corrections in a separate M.S. written more accurately and fully' are not known.
Attached to the flyleaf preceding the title page are a cutting from an unidentified sale catalogue, and notes in an unknown hand concerning plants found on and about Habbie's How and Newhall in August 1897.
‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.
Works on canon law, written in Italy.
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.
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 the manuscript catalogue of the library of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.
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.
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).
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
'ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DORON], ò Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar, y dirigido a la misma Magestad por su ... vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres.'
According to a note inside the end cover, the translator may have been a citizen and grocer who was a brother of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London, 1611.