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Corrected proofs of Douglas Young, "An Appeal to Scots Honour".
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 of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Correspondence, photographs and papers relating to the Clyde Workers` Committee.
Correspondence, photographs and papers, 1913-c 1920s, relating to John W. Muir (1879-1931), trade unionist and Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill, and his involvement in the Clyde Workers’ Committee (CWC). Some of the papers also relate to his wife Catherine Fraser and to other prominent members of the CWC.
Description of the parish of Liberton, possibly by John Dundas.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
Essay by Henry Bell describing his work on steam navigation with the "Comet" and other contributions.
Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.
‘Essay for the Rhetoric Class upon the Origin of Superstition’, by John Lawson, United Presbyterian minister of the 1st charge in Selkirk, 1850-1896.
John Lawson attended Edinburgh University from 1841/1842 until at least 1845 and the Rhetoric class which he attended was probably that of Professor William Spalding thus dating his essay to ?1842-?1845. On the versos of folios 21-24 is a Knoweparke Library catalogue in an older hand of the same John Lawson.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.
The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).
'Essay on the application of steam to the purposes of navigation'; a fair copy by James Rennie of his prize essay.
In an introductory note (folio ii verso), James Rennie states that he could not transcribe ‘several important particulars, which he has in the Scroll Copy'.
`Essay sur le gouvernement des Turcs, leurs moeurs et leurs usages, par le baron de Tott’; copy of an unpublished work by François, Baron de Tott, the diplomatist, who published his ‘Mémoires’ in 1784.
Small water-colour sketches of Turkish scenes and figures have been pasted in before each chapter-heading.
Essay: The Broken Stem. On Scottish sculptor William Brodie.
Essay, written (or possibly copied) in a formal hand, entitled `Observations On the Improvements of Highland Estates on the North West Coast of Scotland`, dated London 7 November 1782.
The identity of the author is not recorded, and the circumstances of the writing are unknown, but the hand, if not the authorship, may be that of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster, who was in London in 1782 and was interested in agricultural and estate improvement from an early age.
Essays and other papers of William Myrtle, author of ‘The plagiarist’, chiefly written while he was a student at Edinburgh University (1877-1880).
Essays (historical and other), biographies, reminiscences, and other works by John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Advocate.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Essays of John Davidson, "Observations on the Regiam Majestatem" and "Remarks on the Editions of the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland".
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.