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Microfilm of biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Mimeographed extracts from the "Alexander Graham Bell Home Notes", a household journal.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.
An inventory is available.
Miscellaneous papers which belonged to Sir William Fraser, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
Notebooks of John Duncan, containing notes and extracts from published works on artists, art techniques and related subjects.
Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.
Papers concerning Peebleshire.
Including typescript extracts from a diary, and church records.
Papers concerning the families of Gardiner, Milne, and Gregor, Banffshire.
Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.
Comprising:
1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family
2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family
3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling
4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.
Papers of Ramsay family, of Ochtertyre.
1. three documents, 1723-1748, concerning James Ramsay of Ochtertyre
2. extract of letter, 1762, of Joseph Macdonald (possibly the piper)
3. journal, 1776, of the first part of a journey from Edinburgh to London
4. 18 poems in Latin and three in English, 18th century, many in the hand of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre.
Photocopies of extracts from notebooks of Alexander MacCallum Scott.
Concerning John Buchan`s years as a student at Glasgow University.
Photocopies of papers from the Thomas Tait Collection.
With additional commentary and extracts compiled by William Tait, son of Thomas and co-creator of the collection.
Photocopies of two letters of Thomas Muir and extract of letter of Thomas Fyshe Palmer.
Photocopies of typescript extracts from 32 letters of Neil Gunn.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
Roman antiquities. Correspondence and papers of George Chalmers, being materials towards Book I of his ‘Caledonia’.
Many of the papers are in the hand of Chalmers’s nephew James: several of these are queries with answers on the same leaves from George Chalmers`s correspondents; other papers include extracts from contemporary printed sources.
Single manuscripts and small collections, presented at various times.
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
Three documents concerning the family of Boyd of Knockson and to the farm of Knockson, near Ayr.
Transcripts, 18th century, of journals, 1547-1553, of the House of Lords for the reign of Edward VI; with a collection of songs and airs, 18th century.
Typescript extract from the "New York Herald".
Concerning John Sutherland Sinclair, 17th Earl of Caithness.