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Accounts, day books, and recipe books of Milton printworks near Dumbarton.
Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).
Instructions, 1579, of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms, to heralds, and a minute-book of executions, 1608-1609, by Thomas Lamb, Messenger-at-arms.
Interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
There are notes, instructions and sketches throughout by Thomas Powrie and by the stage manager, J H Smith.
Microfilm of correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Papers, including recipe, cash books, and notebooks of Charles Macnab.
With eight cashbooks and diaries, 1889-1929.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Photocopy of the cashbook, 1856-1858, of John Moffat.
With commonplace book, 18th to 19th century, containing recipes, scientific and professional data, and genealogical material.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Recipe books of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family
Includes recipes of Stephana Malcolm and Lady Clementina Malcolm. With an incomplete account book, 1880, of Mary Malcolm Douglas.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.