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Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Correspondence and literary papers of and concerning George Borrow collected by Sir Angus Fraser, with working papers of Sir Angus Fraser relating to George Borrow.
Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Fragments, drafts and notes in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald, mainly on Scottish antiquities and topography.
Fragments of a life of Sir William Wallace (folio 1) and of notes (folios 17, 19) relating to another, unidentified life, possibly an edition of Blind Harry`s ‘Wallace’, by Richard Augustine Hay.
The manuscript is undated, but from a reference to ‘the late Mr Lockhart of Carnwath’ (folio 29 verso), it seems that the notes at least were written probably in 1732; the life may have been written about the same time.
Lesmahagow missal, probably written for use in the Tironensian priory of Lesmahagow, first half of the 13th century; and additional related material acquired at the same time.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters, notes, and fragments in the autograph of Lord Henry Brougham.
Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.
There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.
List of Greek words and fragmentary notes by Thomas Boston, (1677-1732), Minister of Ettrick, and author of the ‘Fourfold state’.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott and Robert Southey, written and collected by James Glen, Writer, Glasgow.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Three letters, 1712, of William Nicolson to Archibald Campbell.
With notes and fragments mainly of Alexander Jolly.