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Account book of the executors of Alexander McCrae, Kingston, Jamaica, who died in 1796, containing extracts from McCrae's will concerning a trust for his children, and abstracts of the trustees' accounts.
‘Acta Scotica’, containing styles, chiefly of commissions and safe conducts for Ambassadors, with extracts of some proceedings in Parliament.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Autograph album with the name Jessie Begbie stamped on the cover; containing verses (originals and copies), prose extracts and drawings.
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Biographical notes on the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1789, collected by John Philp Wood, probably in connection with his biographies in Adv.MSS.37.2.2-37.2.4.
The notes are followed by extracts from the Balcarres Papers and notes on the Court of Session, undated; with an index and a note on the papers by John Philp Wood's daughter, Marion Wood, who arranged them, 1877 (folio 29).
A list of Advocates (folio 1) and an account of the Duke of Hamilton's duel with Lord Mohun (folio 25), found loose in the volume, have been pasted in.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Reverend Donald Sage, Minister of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, drawn up 28 October 1823.
There are also excerpts and translations from Martial and translations of the ‘Faolan’ and ‘Song on a Jilted Lover’ of Rob Donn. Bound at the beginning and end of a volume containing ‘An Epistle address'd to a Friend’ ([Edinburgh], 1740), and 'Love of fame, the universal passion: In seven characteristical satires' (Glasgow, 1755) by Edward Young, both formerly the property of Sage.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Copy of notes on persons in Glasgow written by John Buchanan, Doctor of Law, on a copy of the 'Reprint of Jones's Directory . . .for the year 1789'.
The copy, which was made in 1884, is followed by excerpts from the 'Glasgow Herald' regarding local persons and buildings.
Corrections and additions to ‘Letters and recollections of Sir Walter Scott' (London, 1904) by Mary Anne Hughes, from a collation with the originals in the possession of Messrs W Heffer & Sons, Ltd, Cambridge.
Correspondence, 1930-1935, of James Glen, Writer, Glasgow, chiefly with Professor Sir Herbert Grierson about questions connected with the latter's edition of Sir Walter Scott's letters and life of Scott.
Included are extracts from the diary of John Ballantyne, 1814-1818 (folio 176).
Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations.
Alexander Carlyle's papers consist chiefly of journals, sermons, lectures, autobiographical writings, writings on various topics, poetry and papers on church and other affairs. The later papers (MSS.23927-23930) consist of a list of his books, excerpts from his writings and excerpts of proceedings in the action against him by the Presbytery of Dalkeith.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning donations and purchases.
Includes the inventory of John Campbell of Islay collection.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Excerpts, 1833-1837, from kirk session records, chiefly 17th century, written by instruction of George R Kinloch, advocate.
Excerpts from books and other notes of bibliographical and historical interest of John Smith Gibb titled, 'Notabilia Librorum'.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
‘Extracta de Cronicis Scotiæ Quæ ad Historiam civilem pertinent’, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
This volume and Adv.MS.15.2.2 consist of extracts and notes by Sir Robert Sibbald from the manuscript called ‘Extracta de Cronicis’ which he says was given by William Bishop of Dumblane to Henry Sinclair, Dean of Glasgow, in 1550.
Extracts, 19th century, of the journals, 1803-1820, of Lady Henrietta Liston.
Folios 2-25 are from the Constantinople journals of Henrietta Liston for 1815-1820, and contain material not included in MSS. 5708-5712: Journals of Lady Henrietta Liston. Folios 26-58 are extracts from MS. 5706: Journal of Lady Henrietta Liston kept during travels in Sweden and Denmark, pages 1-72 (1803-1804).
Extracts from official records, journals and newspapers, sixteenth to nineteenth century, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections.
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Extracts from the manuscript lute-book of Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1627-1629 (now lost), made by George Farquhar Graham, 1845.
Inserted is a letter of John Muir Wood, 1884 (folio 4), correcting Graham’s scale in Adv.MS. 5.2.18.