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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Wilkie, Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, together with some sketches and engravings from his paintings.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Microfilm of assorted catalogues, minutes and other papers.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Notebook of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material.
(i) `A Catalogue of Mineralls and figur`d stones found in Scotland in M.R.W. cabinet` (page 4). An abridged copy by Robert Sibbald of the catalogue of material owned by Robert Wodrow in 1703.
(ii) Copies, not in Sibbald`s hand, of descriptions of Shetland and the Hebrides written in the second half of the 17th century (inverted page 1).
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Papers of Bet Low, artist.
Papers concern Low`s role in the establishment of the Charing Cross Gallery, Glasgow.