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Biographical anecdotes and typescript of an essay "Dhow Harbours and the Sabi-Lundi River Junction" of H E Sumner.
Books of undergraduate notes, and drafts of essays on logic and metaphysics, with notes, of Sir James Matthew Barrie.
Copy of "An Essay on Ways and Means for Inclosing, Fallowing, Planting, etc. Scotland" (Edinburgh 1729), with notes on the end fly-leaf by Naomi Mitchison in connection with her book, "The Bull Calves".
Correspondence, 1807-1853, mostly of James Everson, Beverley, on the Scotch Baptist Church.
Includes transcripts, 1944, by James Idwal Jones, together with notes, essays and pamphlets on the history of the Church.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Essays and other papers of William Myrtle, author of ‘The plagiarist’, chiefly written while he was a student at Edinburgh University (1877-1880).
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
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.
George Home of Wedderburn`s copy of "The Mirror", with manuscript notes and essay drafts inserted.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.
Papers concerning the compilation of the volume of essays to celebrate the National Library of Scotland`s tercentenary.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
Papers of Archibald J Cronin.
Includes school and university notes and essays, and corrected manuscripts of novels, short stories and autobiography.
Papers of Francis George Scott.
Includes notes, essays, poems and correspondence.
With 13 letters of George Campbell Hay.
Papers of George Douglas Brown.
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.
Papers of Iain Finlay Maciver.
Comprising undergraduate essays and examination scripts; notes for research degree; drafts, versions and off-prints of articles; texts and other scholarly works.
Papers of Naomi Mitchison.
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.
Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.
Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The History of Moses" (1856).
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.