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`Some Remarks on Providence and the Lord`s dealings with me in my tender years, and progressively carried on since. Together with some Meditations on various subjects`, by Hugh Camron, a catechist and schoolmaster in Lochbroom.
The first 12 chapters are mainly autobiographical. There are two later insertions however, the preface and the section between folios 49 and 53 verso, which deals with later events in his life dating from 1751 to 1763. Chapter 13 is divided into 16 sections taking the form of moralising essays on various aspects of Christian behaviour. The work is apparently unpublished.
'Tea Assistant in Cachar' by D Foulis, an essay on growing tea and managing an estate in Assam.
The essay is followed (folio 55) by examples of estate records, diagrams, and sketches of tea plants drawn in 1870. Reference is made to a periodical published in October 1870.
"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.
The Melrosian Annual, 1888
"The Scottish Regality, 1300-1455", an undergraduate essay by Archibald A M Duncan for the Honours Class of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, 1944.
Includes related letter, 1954, of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross.
Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.
Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.
Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732, and an essay entitled `The Superstitions of Perth`, 1788, by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth.
This is part i of Scott`s transcripts and translations.
Scott`s transcribing work is interspersed with historical notices by him.
Two essays (one in draft) on the relationship between the family and the school, written in Tournai.
Two manuscripts of Sir William Purves`s work on the revenue of the Crown in Scotland.
Typescript and associated notes of a paper "The Private Press Movement...Since 1945" presented to Edinburgh Bibliographical Society by Maxwell A Begg.
Typescript and manuscript war diary of the Reverend David Cairns, padre with 131 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; with associated military maps, and a paper on the state of the reformed churches in Germany.
Typescript of an extended essay of James Bruce on the history of Highland roads and bridges.
Typescript of Charles Sarolea, "Thoughts on the American Census of 1920".
Typescript of essay of James G Goalen, "Communion Tokens of the Established Church of Scotland".
Typescript of Sydney Tremayne, "Why. The two Worlds of a Poet".
Typescript of 'The Knighthood of the Clergy' by Owen Chadwick, with associated correspondence.
One of several privately-distributed copies of Chadwick's unpublished essay, 1985, which investigates whether it is lawful for members of the clergy to be denied the right to use the title 'Sir' following their acceptance of a knighthood. Chadwick, himself a priest in the Anglican Church, was knighted in 1983. The essay also covers the situation in Scotland, as does the accompanying correspondence with the Very Rev. Dr. Hugh Douglas, St. Andrews.
Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of three papers of Hugh MacDiarmid, Ronald Stevenson and John Ogdon, and a discussion by them on the musician Kaikhosru Sorabji.
Typescripts of lectures on "The Estate of Poetry" and of two essays of Edwin Muir.
Unpublished memoir of George Douglas Brown, probably by David S Meldrum.
With draft essay, undated, of Brown on Hamlet.
Unrelated documents and letters, including one of James Erskine, Lord Grange, an essay for "The Mirror", and an Advocates` Library ex-Libris inscription by Thomas Ruddiman.
Work on the Curia of the Church of Rome written in Italian.
Works of John H Balfour Browne.
With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.