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Correspondence, 1807-1853, mostly of James Everson, Beverley, on the Scotch Baptist Church.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11076
Scope and Contents

Includes transcripts, 1944, by James Idwal Jones, together with notes, essays and pamphlets on the history of the Church.

Dates: 1807-1853, 1944.

Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.11
Scope and Contents According to a pencil note on page i, `This Book is in handwriting of Commissary John Goldie [of Craigmuie]`.The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Note on reason for parsons being addressed as `Sir’. (Page i.)(ii) `Ane Essay on Teinds.’ This is basically the same text as in Adv.MS.81.1.3. (Page 1.)(iii) `Extracts from [White] Kennets Parochiall antiquitys of Ambrosden andc [Oxford, 1695]`. (Page 88.)(iv) `Extracts from a...
Dates: 18th century.

Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MS.14274
Scope and Contents

The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.

Dates: 1868-1872.

Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates: 1836-1863 and undated.

Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.16
Scope and Contents (i) Extracts from the ‘De clementia’, in two series, concerning respectively ‘clementia’ and ‘crudelitas’: i.1.5 ‘rarissimum’ – ‘est’, ‘nemo’ – ‘Romano’, i.1.6 ‘difficile’ – ‘procedunt’, i.1.7 ‘iam’ – ‘sunt’, ‘fecit’ – ‘assecuti’, i.2.2 ‘nec’ – ‘praeponderet’, 1.3.3 ‘nullum’ – ‘struendum est’, i.4.1 ‘ille’ – ‘fidem’, i.4.3 ‘olim’ – ‘capite’, i.5.1 ‘uides’ – ‘parcere’, i.5.3 ‘decet’ – ‘conspicitur’, i.5.5 ‘magnam’ – ‘despicere’, i.7.4 ‘humili’ – ‘liberius est’, i.8.1 ‘eorum’ - i.8.2 ‘timore’,...
Dates: 14th century.

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.22

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Papers of Archibald J Cronin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10106
Scope and Contents

Includes school and university notes and essays, and corrected manuscripts of novels, short stories and autobiography.

Dates: 1911-1978.

Papers of Francis George Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9014
Scope and Contents

Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.

With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.

Dates: 1925-1957 and undated.

Papers of George Douglas Brown.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6804
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

school essay, "Science and Intellectual Philosophy; their Aims and Relations"

letter of Brown, on the death of his mother

notes and transcriptions, undated, of Brown.

Dates: circa 1890-circa 1902.

Papers of Iain Finlay Maciver.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12930
Scope and Contents

Comprising undergraduate essays and examination scripts; notes for research degree; drafts, versions and off-prints of articles; texts and other scholarly works.

Dates: 1961-2003.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6120
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. typescript of note, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, on lady doctors

2. typescripts, 20th century, of works of fiction and essays on feminisim of Naomi Mitchison, with books

3. 2 letters, 1915, of Mary E Haldane to Naomi Mitchison.

Dates: circa 1880 to 20th century.

Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10065
Scope and Contents

Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.

Dates: 1812-1816.

Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents

William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.

Dates: 1833-1939, undated.

Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).

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Identifier: Acc.10356
Scope and Contents

Text as dictated to Stevenson`s mother, with his signature and sketches illustrating the work.

With copy of "The Happy Sunday Book of Painted Pictures" (London, undated) given to Stevenson as a prize, and a copy of the privately printed edition of the Stevenson manuscript by A Edward Newton, and a note by Newton on his acquisition of the manuscript.

Dates: 1856-1919 and undated.

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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Begg, Maxwell Alexander, Assistant Keeper of Printed Books, National Library of Scotland, 1933-1988 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1