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63 letters and cards of Frances Shand Kydd to William McIlwraith, Ayr.
Includes book and press cutting.
Account and letter books of W Green and Son Ltd, and of their predecessors, Bell and Bradfute, law publishers, Edinburgh.
Account book, 1837-1859, of Alexander Gilchrist, kept during service in Britain and at Gibraltar.
With copy of J L Hilson, "Further Yesterdays in a Royal Burgh" (1917), and associated letters of Hilson.
Account books and other business records of T and T Clark, publishers, Edinburgh.
Annotated copy of May Sinclair, "A Defence of Idealism" (1917).
Includes three letters, 1923-1924, of the author to W J Jupp and Jupp`s annotations and presentation note, 1925, to J Ramsay MacDonald.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.
The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Bazett Michael Haggard, "Objects of Pity" (1892), with author`s corrections and associated correspondence.
Correspondents include Lloyd Osbourne, 1901, and Isobel Field, 1941.
Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.
Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.
The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Copies of letters of John C Hooper to his parents, during his time in the Boer War.
Copy of James Gillespie, "The Triumph of Philosophy; or, The True System of the Universe" (London, 1893), with associated letter and diagrams, undated, of Gillespie.
Copy of "Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Youngest Sister" (Boston and New York, 1899), with a letter, circa 1837-1838, of Jane Welsh Carlyle to Jenny Hanning and two letters, 1840 and 1842, of Thomas Carlyle to Jenny Hanning.
Copy of Sir Augustus W Franks, "Notes on Bookplates" (1887) with author`s presentation note.
Includes pasted in letter, 1888, of John Lane to Walter Hamilton, with other letters loosely enclosed and pasted in.
Correspondence and letter books of Duncan MacKinnon.
Correspondence and papers concerning the National Demonstration in Scotland, in honour of Arthur James Balfour.
Including accounts and press cuttings.