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Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"
Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.
Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Correspondence and other papers relating to the ‘Scottish Review’, which was published by Alexander Gardner, Paisley and London, 1882-1900, and edited by the Reverend William M Metcalfe, Minister of Paisley South Parish.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Correspondence of Professor Alastair David Shaw Fowler.
This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.
Acc.12377/49 is an A-Z person index to the collection, and gives biographical details of many of the figures involved.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letters addressed mostly to Dr Robert Anderson, editor of ‘The Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain’, ‘The Edinburgh Magazine’, etc. (there are a few to Bishop Thomas Percy and the Earl of Buchan).
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, with an index (Adv.MS.32.6.26) by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton.
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
Microfilm of 'Admiralty letters sent' during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index.
The contents are as follows:
'Admiralty letters sent', 1842-1847 (MS.2415);
'Admiralty letters sent', 1847 (MS.2416);
Index to 'Admiralty letters sent', [1847, or after] (MS.2417).
Microfilms of papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service in the East India Station.
Miscellaneous papers consisting mostly of indexes to works of genealogical interest in the possession of Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane (folio 2), indexes to his copies of cartularies and other registers of mediaeval Scottish religious houses (folio 30), followed by some rentals of church lands and church appointments in the north of Scotland (folio 94) written, from information at folio 95 verso, about 1593.
Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.