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64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7175
Scope and Contents

With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.

Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.

Dates: 1388, 1798-1952.

89 funeral letters to the family of Scott of Raeburn.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7516
Scope and Contents

Including three letters of Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1771-1840.

Album, containing autograph letters of celebrities, chiefly literary, dating chiefly from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with some portraits.

 Item
Identifier: MS.948
Scope and Contents

Several of the letters are addressed to the two Thomas Cadells, publishers.

Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

Album containing correspondence, chiefly relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, with transcripts (not wholly accurate), portraits, and views.

 File
Identifier: MS.3657
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letter of Lethington to Mary, Queen of Scots, describing an interview with Elizabeth, 1562 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Lethington to Dudley, on Mary's attitude to negotiations, apparently for her marriage with Dudley, Stirling, 1563 (folio 5);(iii) Letter of Throckmorton to Lethington, on the prospects of the marriage, London, 1565 (folio 8);(iv) Letter of Randolph to Leicester, on the same subject, Edinburgh, 1565...
Dates: 1562-1586, undated.

Album containing eight letters, 1833-1837, from Hugh Miller to Sir Thomas Dick-Lauder; and a transcript of a letter from Miller to Miss Dunbar of Boath, and of one from Miss Dunbar to Dick-Lauder, both of 1829.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9654
Scope and Contents

The album contains (folios 13-18) a printed octavo prospectus for ‘The traditional history of Cromarty (Inverness, 1834).

Dates: 1829, 1833-1837.

Album containing miscellaneous autograph letters, signatures, etc.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3719
Scope and Contents A number of the letters are addressed to members of the family of William Blackwood the publisher (died 1834), and the correspondents include literary celebrities and eminent soldiers of the nineteenth-century. It includes: two pages of a manuscript by Fitzgerald Ross (no. 15) and letters of Roderick Murchison (no. 17), Elizabeth Gaskell (no. 50), Agnes Strickland (no. 52) and George Henry Lewes (no. 53). It also includes a certificate appointing George Frederick Blackwood a lieutenant in...
Dates: 19th century.

Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates: Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.

Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates: Mid 19th century-1936.

Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents

Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.

Dates: 1898-1902.

Album of newspaper cuttings collected by Alexander Hutcheson concerning the haunted tower of St Andrews, the cathedral, the castle, and the abbey wall.

 File
Identifier: MS.9608
Scope and Contents

Also pasted into the album are two pamphlets by David Henry about the cathedral and the castle, 1910, and three letters, 1894, 1911, of David Hay Fleming.

Dates: 1894-1911.

Album of the Reverend John Kirk.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11146
Scope and Contents

Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.

Dates: circa 1814-1855.

Album of Walter Bowman.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10717
Scope and Contents

Contains manuscript letters, prints, drawings and watercolours.

Dates: 1764.

Album, probably compiled by David Macdonald, printer, Edinburgh, containing letters and signatures of his correspondents; together with some letters formerly placed loosely amongst the pages of the album.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7171-7172
Scope and Contents

The letters are of interest only as autographs, and it is clear from the mutilated state of the album, as well as from the index found in it, that many other letters are missing, the pages on which they had been pasted having been clumsily cut out.

Dates: 19th century.

Albums of autographs and letters addressed to or collected by Mrs Isabella Bishop, nee Bird.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7178-7179
Scope and Contents The correspondents are political, literary, and clerical celebrities, chiefly English, of the nineteenth century. A number of letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, physician, to whom the collection was presented by Mrs Bishop in 1886 (MS.7178, number 1). Most of the letters are of interest only as autographs but a few have further biographical or other interest, especially those of Thomas Arnold, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Harriet Martineau, and Hannah More, in...
Dates: 19th century.

Autograph album of H F Lloyd, manager of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10324
Scope and Contents

Much of the material is from letters to H F Lloyd written between 1838 and 1850 by members of the theatrical profession.

Dates: Majority of material found within ?1838-?1850

"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9430
Scope and Contents

Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.

Dates: circa 1800-circa 1826.

"Field Marshal Earl Haig K T Letters 1920 to 1927".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9431
Scope and Contents

Contains 41 letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.

Dates: circa 1920-circa 1927.

'In Mermoriam Sir James Matheson, Bart', memorabilia concerning Sir James Matheson of Achany and the Lews.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10175
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter, 1952, of James Anderson, Culloden, to Miss Augusta Lamont of Knockdow.

Dates: 1952, undated.

Letters, 1819-1884, to Robert and Thomas Stevenson, in an album of Thomas Stevenson.

 Item
Identifier: MS.785
Scope and Contents

The volume also contains remarks on the raising of the continuation of Dysart pier, by John Smeaton, 1758 (folio 7), and a note of John Howard, the philanthropist, 1780 (folio 18). The correspondents, who are chiefly scientific celebrities, include J M W Turner, 1819 (folio 9), and Sir Walter Scott, sending a proposed alteration in the preface of Robert Stevenson’s ‘Account of the Bell Rock Light-house’, 1824 (folio 3).

Dates: 1758-1884.

Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount, together with some letters written by them.

 File
Identifier: MS.6524
Scope and Contents

The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.

Dates: 1780-1830.

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Albums. 38
Photograph albums. 14
Photographs. 11
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Notes. 5
Poetry. 5
Diaries. 4
Documents. 4
Drawings. Visual works. 4
Portraits. 4
Copies. Derivative objects. 3
Correspondence. 3
Microfilms. 3
Annotations. 2
Articles. 2
Autographs (manuscripts). 2
Certificates 2
First World War (1914-1918). 2
Lectures. 2
Minute books. 2
Notebooks. 2
Printed materials. Object genre. 2
Signatures. Names. 2
Sketches. 2
Transcripts. 2
Typescripts. 2
Account books. 1
Bindings. Binding components. 1
Biographies. 1
Books 1
British Columbia. North and Central America - Canada. Province. Longitude: -125.0000 . Latitude: 55.0000 . 1
Canada. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -96.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 1
Caricatures. 1
Certificates. 1
Course work. 1
Dried flowers. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
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Essays. 1
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 1
Genealogies. 1
Horoscopes. 1
Indexes. Reference sources. 1
Inscriptions. 1
Journals. Periodicals. 1
Kelso. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.4167. Latitude: 53.6000. 1
Kuala Lumpur. Asia - Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur. Inhabited place. Longitude: 101.7000. Latitude: 3.1667. 1
Landscapes. Representations. 1
Leaflets. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Memorabilia. 1
Memorandums. Legal documents. 1
Menus. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Novels. 1
Pages. 1
Pamphlets. 1
Pencil drawings. 1
Photocopies. 1
Plans (orthographic projections). 1
Postage stamps. 1
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Prints. Visual works 1
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Prisoners of War. 1
Proofs. Printed matter. 1
Prospectuses 1
Reminiscences. 1
Reports 1
Romania. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 25.0000. Latitude: 46.0000. 1
Russia. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 47.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 1
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Language
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Smith, Chilton Lind Addison-, Writer to the Signet, 1875-1955 2
Anderson, James, Culloden, fl 1952 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
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Blackwood, William (publisher, and founder of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine") 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 1
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Douglas, family 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 1
Elliot, Sir Walter, Knight, East India Company servant and archaeologist, 1803-1887 1
Erskine, Charles, of Shielfield, Sheriff Substitute for Selkirkshire, 1771-1825 1
Fisher, James, a founder of the Secession Church, 1697-1775 1
Garrick, Joseph Alan (lecturer in Engineering and Design, Royal Technical College, Glasgow, and mountaineer) (1894-1996) 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Inglis, Euphemia Amy Maria, pseudonym Innes Adair, d 1925 1
Johnston, James Frederick Junor (Major-General) 1
Kirk, John, Minister of Barry, d 1858. 1
Lamont, Augusta, daughter of Sir James, 1st Baronet, Arctic yachtsman, d 1958: recipient 1
Luffness New Golf Club, East Lothian 1
MacDonald, Alexander, Alexander (antiquary) (d 1850) 1
Maclean, Neil, Factor to Edward Ellice, Statesman at Glenquoich, f.1841 1
Malcolm, family 1
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 1
Mare, Walter John de la, poet and author, 1873-1956 1
Marx, Margaret, Scottish Women's Ambulance Corp, fl 1916-1917 1
Matheson, Sir James, 1st Baronet, of Achany and the Lews, 1796-1878 1
Men's Institute of St Ninian's (Episcopal) Cathedral, Perth 1
Nevinson, Henry Woodd, journalist and author, 1856-1941 1
Orr, Patricia, Scottish Women's Ambulance Corps, née Walker, fl 1916-1917 1
Pirandello, Luigi, writer, 1867-1936 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: collector 1
Purves, John, Reader in Italian, University of Edinburgh, 1877-1961: recipient 1
Ritchie, James Spence, former keeper of manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, Stepfather of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston. 1
Ritchie, Margaret Macrae Ward (née Junor, then Johnston, mother of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston) 1
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, poet, 1828-1882 1
Runciman, James Cochran Stevenson (Steven), Sir, Knight (historian) (1903-2000) 1
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 1
Russell, Arthur Walker, WS, Vice President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, 1873-1967 1
Scott, Sir Robert Heatlie, Knight, Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale (formerly of Peebleshire), 1905-1982 1
Scott, family, of Raeburn 1
Scottish Women's Ambulance Corp 1
Scottish Women's Hospitals 1
Soutar, William (poet) 1
Sturgis, Tim, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, fl.2014-2015: author 1
Trotter, Eliza Sophia, wife of Sir Philip, of Mainhouse, Colonel, née Scott Plummer, d 1926: recipient 1
Trotter, Sir Philip, Knight, of Mainhouse, Colonel, 1844-1918: recipient 1
University of Edinburgh 1
University of St Andrews 1
Wade, George, Field-Marshal, 1673-1748 1
Wade, George, Field-Marshal, 1673-1748. 1
Welch, Adam Cleghorn, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, New College, Edinburgh, 1864-1943: recipient 1
Welch, John Lawson, Pauper Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, fl 1888-1897 1
Wemyss, Earl of (succ.1883), 1818-1914 1
Willis, Eustace George, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, 1903-1987 1
Wordsworth, Charles, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1806-1892: recipient 1
Wordsworth, William (English poet and garden designer) (1770-1850) 1
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