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"Essays Written and Delivered by the Members of the Association for Promoting Moral, Scientific and Commercial Knowledge, Glasgow, 1842".
Four essays on economics and moral philosophy by Patrick J Stirling, written while he was a student at St Andrews in 1828.
There are brief comments by Thomas Chalmers at the end of the first three essays.
Four theological papers of the Reverened James Brown.
With translation of an article.
Galley proofs of "A Symposium on the After War Religion", unpublished work edited by Denis Saurat, and including an essay of Hugh MacDiarmid.
With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.
George Home of Wedderburn`s copy of "The Mirror", with manuscript notes and essay drafts inserted.
"Grandville`s Illustrations to the Fables of la Fontaine", typescript of essay by James Brown, Minister of Colmonell.
Heavily corrected manuscript of chapters I-XVII of Thomas Reid, "Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking" (1826).
With printed text and plates (with corrections) for Reid`s entry on horology in the "Edinburgh Encyclopedia".
`Historia natural das propriedades de Polypus, insects, que vive em Ribeyres`: essays written by the Brazilian doctor Matheus Saraiva in reply to those published in the ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London’, volume xlii, pages 281, 422.
`Historical Account of Printing in Scotland, During Two Centuries; Being Annals of her Literature, From 1507 to 1707; With an Appendix: comprehending, The History of Paper making, The History of Type founding in Scotland; and an Essay on the Copyright of Authors`, by George Chalmers, the antiquary.
Holograph essay on early poetry in England by Thomas Campbell, not the same as his published 'Essay on English poetry' but having the same beginning and containing other similar passages.
Parts of folios 3, 7, and 8 have been cut away, but the text remaining is continuous.
Holograph manuscript of Ewen Maclachlan or McLachlan, the Celtic scholar, containing Irish literature.
James Gall, "Essay on the Structure of the Human Eye".
Written for a course of popular lectures at Newhaven.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
`Just complaint on Mankind for Injuiring [sic] killing and eating animals`; the author`s name `John Williamson, Brachman ` [i.e. Brahmin] has been added in another hand.
The author, a sheep farmer, was a friend of James Boswell (see ‘James Boswell, the earlier years, 1740-1769’, pages 4, 33-34).
Letter, 1978, of Naomi Mitchison, together with manuscript, undated, entitled "A Note on Courtesy Between Chiefs", concerning Botswana.
Letter of Andrew Lang to Mr Watson and essay entitled "Cruelty to Poets".
Letter of C M Grieve enclosing an essay on his work and a prospectus for "In Memoriam James Joyce".
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Literary and personal papers of Marion Lochhead.
Literary papers of Naomi Mitchison.
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, stories, and essays.
Literary, personal and political papers of James Kelman, with digital archive.
Manuscript contributions to "The Peripatetic: a Quarterly Magazine"
Manuscript essay of Alexander Bryce, probably Minister of Kirknewton.
Concerning rainfall.
Manuscript essay or talk entitled "Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe" of Mary S Thomson.
Manuscript essays of George Mackay Brown concerning Gerard Manley Hopkins, with related notebooks and notes.
Includes several manuscript essays concerning various aspects of Hopkins' work, as well as three notebooks and some loose pages of notes, all concerning Hopkins.