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Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Archives of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Edinburgh Branch.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts and proofs, of Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares, English literature scholar.
Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
‘Grant manuscript.’
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.
At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.
Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).
Manuscript of Hamish M Brown, "Scotland: Coast to Coast".
With papers of the first ten years of the Ultimate Challenge, an annual walk across Scotland.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of Gavin Ewart, poet.
Microfilm of ‘The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709)’ (Wakefield: Microform Academic Publishers, 2007).
Minutes of Sederunt of the Committee of Management of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Light Dragoons (from 1800 the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry), 15 March, 1797-9 July, 1801.
Sir Walter Scott was quartermaster and secretary, and regularly attended the meetings. The minutes are in a clerk`s hand. Some letters concerning the company have been pasted in towards the end, and some concerning the manuscript at the beginning. There is a list of members at the end.
`Minutes of the Convention of Estats of the kingdome of Scotland`, 14 March-24 May 1689, and the minutes of the first and second sessions of the first Parliament of William and Mary, 5 June-2 August 1689, and 15 April-22 July 1690.
The Convention of 1689 was adjourned from 29 April to 21 May.
`Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords of Council and Session in the triall of Mr Patrick Haldane Advocat named to be one of their Number`, 12-28 February 1723.
Minutes of the Select Society of Edinburgh, 1754-1762, together with the Rules and Orders and lists of members of the society, and a section at the back of the volume on `Questions to be debated in the Select Society` and several notes of apology for absence at meetings from various members, 1763.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.
As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.
Papers of Janet Paisley.
This is a box list of the papers of Janet Paisley, as received by the Library. No attempt has been made currently to review the order of the papers, to date them or to otherwise interpret them. The aim of the box list is to facilitate access in advance of any fuller arrangement and description.
Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
‘Parish rhymes, [by] V.O.B. North Berwick, 1872.' Manuscript and printed poems by Peter Macmorland, Minister of North Berwick, written or pasted in an exercise-book.
Also included are newspaper cuttings on various subjects and a copy of the minute passed by the Kirk Session of North Berwick on Peter Macmorland's resignation.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.