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Letters and papers of the Rev William Stevenson and his family.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.
Manuscript commonplace book entitled "Fancy Gleanings".
Microfilm of commonplace book chiefly containing historical materia
Microfilm of commonplace book of Robert Edward (1616-1696), minister of the Murroes
Microfilm of commonplace book of Sir John Wedderburn, physician (1599-1679).
Microfilm of commonplace book of William Drummond of Hawthornden, commencing with a collection of anecdotes, pasquils, jests, epitaphs, impresas, etc., entitled 'Democritie, a labyrinth of delight'.
Microfilm of late 15th century manuscript, the commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Microfilm of papers, 1592-1654, of Sir James Balfour; and, sermons, 1660, of Presbyterian preachers.
Microfilm of two commonplace books and manuscript of a lecture.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Miscellaneous manuscripts formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Newspaper cuttings album of Charles Geekie Matthew.
Containing clippings collected during Matthew's time as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, on the subjects of sport, politics, and current affairs, with poetry and songs.
Notebook ruled for cash, which was used for legal notes, elementary French exercises and as a commonplace book (folios 2-12, 1-34 verso inverted). The entries, the latest of which is dated 1739, are written mostly in Byrom`s system of shorthand, which was not published until 1767.
The owner, who remains unidentified, was a young man, probably of wealthy family, studying law, possibly at one of the Inns of Court in London. Pages have been torn out after folios 11, 12 and 13 inverted; folios 30-34 are written sideways. The volume, which was received without the original covers, was unintentionally rebound upside-down, and incorrectly labelled on the spine ‘French Commonplace Book’.
Notebooks of Christina Struthers, wife of Sir John Struthers, the anatomist.
Papers and correspondence of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Papers and correspondence of Cornelius and Robert Lundie, Ministers of Kelso.
Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".
Papers of the Reid family of Mouswald.
Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.
Including:
1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)
2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel
3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937
4. commonplace book, circa 1896
5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.
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.