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Account of time as a nurse at the King George V Seamen`s Memorial Hospital, Malta, of Miss J G M Allan.
Includes a letter, press cuttings and a newsletter.
'Additions and corrections' to a work of the writer's own, which appears to have been entitled 'The History of the Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746'.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Autograph manuscript of `History of Scots Affairs from the year 1637 to 1641.`, by James Gordon, Minister of Rothiemay.
The manuscript, written between December 1659 and March 1661, contains the Argument to Book II, and Books II-V.
Copy of G A B Dowar and J H Boraston, "Sir Douglas Haig`s Command".
Containing letter of Dewar, and letter and presentation note of Boraston, and press cuttings.
Copy of G P Lacasselle, "Le 1er Corps d`Armée pendant la Guerre 1914-1918" (Paris, 1922), with presentation note and two letters of the author to Earl Haig.
Copy of J H Boraston and Cyril Bax, "The Eighth Division in the War 1914-1918" (London, 1926), with letter and presentation note, 1926, of Boraston.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Copy of Robert Law, "Memorials" (Edinburgh, 1818), with annotations by editor Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
Includes letters of James Ballantyne to Sharpe concerning the printing of "Memorials".
Copy of William Maitland, "History of Edinburgh" (Edinburgh, 1753), with additional papers bound in to the book.
Additional papers include:
printed proposals for the work
printed and manuscript papers concerning alterations to the text
papers concerning defamation of James Coutts and Mrs Little of Liberton.
Copy of William Roughead, "Trial of Oscar Slater" (3rd edition, Edinburgh, 1929), with four letters of Oscar Slater, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Viscount Buckmaster.
Copy of Winston S Churchill, "The World Crisis" (1916-1918), with three letters and presentation note, 1926-1927, of the author.
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Buchanites, collected by Joseph Train.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Augustus Muir.
Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Ian Cunningham concerning "The Nation Survey`d: the Maps of Timothy Pont" (East Linton, 2001).
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Further papers of William Walls.
The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.
At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.
Incomplete copy of an apparently rejected version, entitled `The King, and Parliament`, of Chapter II of Volume II of ‘Caledonia’ by George Chalmers.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
Letter, 1634, to William Drummond of Hawthornden, and draft, undated, of part of Drummond`s `History`.
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.