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25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6831
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Porpoise Press.

With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.

Dates: 1925.

Annotated copy of J L Campbell and Francis Collinson, "Hebridean Folksongs" (1969).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9003
Scope and Contents

With five letters, 1979, of Campbell to Collinson.

Dates: 1969-1979.

Annotated copy of May Sinclair, "A Defence of Idealism" (1917).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11190
Scope and Contents

Includes three letters, 1923-1924, of the author to W J Jupp and Jupp`s annotations and presentation note, 1925, to J Ramsay MacDonald.

Dates: 1917-1923.

Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9458
Scope and Contents

With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.

Dates: circa 1859-1907.

Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates: Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.

Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9331
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".

Dates: 1818.

Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a letter of George Fothergill to Robertson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-6
Scope and Contents James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates: 1896-1910, 1916-1917.

‘James Hogg’ by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh, 1899), with a few annotations by the author.

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Identifier: MS.10500
Scope and Contents

A letter, 1920, to George Douglas from Adam Scott, concerning portraits of Hogg, and a copy of a letter of Hogg, 1835, are inserted.

Dates: 1835, 1899, 1920.

Letter of George Chalmers to Robert Cadell.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11864
Scope and Contents

Concerns Chalmers` work on later volumes of "Caledonia", his wish to see a print of the author in the last volume and on his possible diversion by his life of David I, a move opposed by Cadell in a note on the letter.

Dates: ? 1824.

Letters of John D Fergusson to Nigel McIsaac.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10234
Scope and Contents

With letter of McIsaac concerning Ferguson, letters of Margaret Morris and annotated catalogues of Ferguson`s work.

Dates: 1959-1966.

Letters of literary and historical figures.

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Identifier: Acc.12605
Scope and Contents

This accession comprises:

letter, 1837, of Lady Burnett to Mr Banting;

letter, 1845, of Thomas Chalmers to Sir David Brewster;

letter, 1857, of William Baring, Lord Ashburton, after the death of his wife, to Thomas Carlyle;

letter, 1876, of Ellen Wood to Ann Sansome;

letter, undated, of Adelaide Drummond to Mr Gaskell.

Dates: circa 1837-1876.

Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.41
Scope and Contents Originally 2 separate manuscripts: (a) folios 1 and 16, (b) folios 2-15. Part (a), a bifolium, is by a single anonymous hand, origin and date unknown. John Mackenzie, secretary of the Highland Society of London described part (a) as “A small Octavo Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing two Leaves, signed, London Janry. 5th. 1803 John Mackenzie”. (Highland Society of Scotland minutes.) Part (b) was written by several hands, one text to each. The main text, the Letter...
Dates: (?)15th century-17th century.

Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates: 1696.

Marked proof, undated, of "Carmina Gadelica", corrected by J C Watson and William Matheson.

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Identifier: Acc.8223
Scope and Contents

With marked proof, undated, of J L Campbell, "Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands", corrected by Angus Matheson, with letters, 1962, of Campbell to Matheson on the book.

Dates: 1962 and undated.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers of Sir Robert H Scott.

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Identifier: Acc.11331
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter to his mother-in-law, 1942, photograph albums, 1924-1934, records of his Lord Lieutenancy of Peebles-shire/Tweeddale, 1968-1980, and an annotated copy of "Intisari" (Research Journal of Wider Malaysia).

Dates: circa 1924-1980.

Proof copy of 'Poor things', by Alasdair Gray, with a related letter.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11160/1-2
Scope and Contents

A heavily annotated paperback proof of 'Poor things', donated by Alasdair Gray to Mark Fleming for auction at a Scotland in Europe fundraising event, with an accompanying letter explaining the donation.

Dates: 1992-1993.

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Names
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 3
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996 2
Balfour (family, of Pilrig ) 1
Balfour, Sir Thomas Graham, Knight, author, 1858-1929 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
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Banting, Thomas, upholsterer to Kings George III and William IV, fl 1811-1837: recipient 1
Baring, William Bingham, 2nd Baron Ashburton (succeeded 1848), 1799-1864 1
Brewster, Sir David, Knight, natural philosopher and academic administrator, 1781–1868: recipient 1
Brown, John, Minister of Whitburn Secession Church, 1754-1832 1
Brown, Samuel, founder of "itinerating libraries", 1779-1839 1
Browne, William George, traveller, 1768-1813 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Burnett, Lady, correspondent of Thomas Banting, upholsterer to Kings George III and William IV, fl 1837 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849: recipient 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881: transcriber 1
Chalmers, George, antiquary and political writer, ? 1742-1825 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984 1
Collinson, Francis James Montgomery, musical director and musicologist, 1898-1984: recipient 1
Crawford, Lawrence, Parliamentary Major-General, 1611-1645: recipient 1
Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1599-1658 1
Drummond, Hon Adelaide, wife of Maurice, née Lister, 1827-1911 1
Fergusson, John Duncan, artist, 1874-1961 1
Forbes, William, Advocate, d 1745 1
Fothergill, George Algernon (author and illustrator) 1
Gaskell, Mr, correspondent of Hon Adelaide Drummond, wife of Maurice, fl 1847-1870: recipient 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) 1
Hervey, James, divine, 1714-1758 1
Jupp, William Jesse, Unitarian minister and author, 1846-1936 1
Keating, Geoffrey (Seathrún Céitinn), ca. 1580-ca. 1644 1
Kerr, Roderick Watson, poet and author, d c 1973 1
Law, Robert, field preacher, d c 1686 1
Logan, Patrick (schoolmaster in Lurgan, Co. Armagh) 1
Loudon, John Claudius, landscape gardener, 1783-1843 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937. 1
Matheson, Angus, 1912-1962 (Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, University of Glasgow) 1
Matheson, William, Reader Emeritus in Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1910-1995 1
McIsaac, Nigel, artist, 1911-1995 1
Melville, Barbara Gordon Balfour-, author of "The Balfours of Pilrig", b 1846 1
Morris, Margaret Eleanor, teacher of dance, 1891-1980 1
Nightingale, Florence, hospital reformer, 1820–1910 1
Porpoise Press, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922 1
Robertson, James Logie, literary scholar and author, pseudonym Hugh Haliburton, 1846-1922. 1
Robinson, George, correspondent of James Bruce, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, fl 1789: recipient 1
Sansome, Ann, governess, fl 1876: recipient 1
Scott, Sir Robert Heatlie, Knight, Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale (formerly of Peebleshire), 1905-1982 1
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851: editor 1
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851: recipient 1
Sinclair, May Amelia St Clair, novelist and philosopher, 1863-1946 1
Smiles, Samuel, biographer, 1812-1904 1
Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet: collector 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Symson, Andrew, Minister of Douglas, c 1638-1712 1
Thomson, George Malcolm, author, pseudonym Aeneas MacDonald, 1899-1996 1
Thomson, George Malcolm, author, pseudonym Aeneas MacDonald, 1899-1996. 1
Thomson, George Malcolm, author, pseudonym Aeneas MacDonald, 1899-1996: transcriber 1
Watson, James Carmichael, Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1910-1942 1
Wharton, Richard, politician and author, c 1764-1828 1
Wood, Ellen, writer and journal editor, wife of Henry, née Price, 1814-1887 1
Ó Gribín, Sémus 1
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