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Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
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 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.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
Historical and genealogical notebook.
Includes extracts from works of George Crawford, Sir James Dalrymple and Sir J Scott of Scotstorvet.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Notebook of George Crawfurd containing chiefly excerpts and notes on genealogies, charters of Mortification, and the later Abbots of Holyrood.
Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
‘Notes of genealogies, etc’ in Walter Macfarlane’s handwriting, chiefly regarding his own family, and the Earl of Lennox.
Photocopy of excerpts from "Some of our Family Homes".
Compilation of genealogical and geographical information concerning the Gordon family in Virginia.
Typescript 'Collected details re the Alston family (Scottish Branch)', compiled by Patrick R Alston, together with letters on the subject.
The compiler attempts to trace the history of the Saxon family of Alston from its first appearance in Scotland, before 1399. His collection, which deals mainly with Alstons of the seventeenth to nineteenth century, consists for the most part of extracts from Lionel Cresswell, ‘Stemmata Alstoniana’, 1905, other printed sources, and official records.
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.