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Audio recording of an address by John Buchan to the Sir Walter Scott Society.
Audio recordings concerning Scotland`s social and industrial history in the 20th century.
Audio recordings of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.
‘Auswahl Deutscher Lieder’ (Leipzig, 1830), belonging to Professor John Stuart Blackie, with verses written by him in pencil on the flyleaves.
Author’s annotated copies of ‘The Grants of Corrimony’ (Berwick, 1895), and ‘The county families of the Zetland Islands’ (Berwick, 1893) by Sir Francis J Grant.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Author's manuscript and printed proof of ‘An anthology of Scottish history’ from 1093 to 1746, being a list of characters, etc., prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, for the pageant given at the Scottish National Exhibition, 1908.
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Autobiographical writings of Colonel John Drinkwater, afterwards Bethune.
Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Autograph album compiled about the middle of the 19th century presumably by the James Robertson whose signature appears at the beginning.
Autograph album of H F Lloyd, manager of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
Much of the material is from letters to H F Lloyd written between 1838 and 1850 by members of the theatrical profession.
Autograph album of Nurse Ronaldson, Craigleith Hospital.
Autograph album of Rose B Willison, a nurse at Stobhill Hospital during World War 1.
Autograph album with the name Jessie Begbie stamped on the cover; containing verses (originals and copies), prose extracts and drawings.
Autograph books of J J Kirchheim containing a collection of chiefly German autographs.
Autograph collection, chiefly of the late nineteenth century.
The correspondents include politicians, artists and figures from the medical and theatrical professions. It probably belonged to Jean Lang, née Blaikie, to whom many of the letters are addressed, but a substantial amount of the correspondence is to William Miller, Member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and the physician, Sir Thomas Lauder-Brunton.
Autograph collection of John Horseman, Rector of Heydon, containing letters of celebrities of the early nineteenth century, chiefly addressed to Horseman, and many franks and other signatures.
Autograph collection of W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, containing letters of political, literary, and other figures.
A number of the letters are addressed to Alexander Adam, rector of Edinburgh High School, and others to David Dickson, master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. There is a small group of naval autographs, 1746-1813 (folio 267) and a manuscript periodical, 'The Glencorse Advertiser', for July 1840 (folio 281).
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Autograph letters of David Livingstone to various correspondents.
Autograph manuscript of a French biography of Sir David Wilkie by the art historian, Baron Félix Sébastien Feuillet de Conches (1798-1887).
The work is undated and apparently unpublished.
Autograph manuscript of Sir Walter Scott concerning Scottish gypsies, including an account of Jean Gordon, of whom the character ‘Meg Merrilies’ in Guy Mannering is based.
Autograph manuscript of the novel ‘Deep down: a tale of the Cornish mines’ by R M Ballantyne.
The preface is signed and dated at Edinburgh in 1868. The manuscript is heavily corrected and includes a page-proof of the preface.