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Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3746
Scope and Contents
What Alexander Skinner presented was, it seems, the blank volume, cf. MS.3745. The music was almost certainly written by Duncan Campbell.According to a note (folio ii) by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society, Duncan Campbell left at least two manuscripts, one referred to simply as Duncan Campbell's Manuscript in the publications of the Piobaireachd Society, the other, this, an incomplete and probably unrevised copy of the first. The...
Dates:
[1855, or after.]
"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"
Item
Identifier: Acc.9430
Scope and Contents
Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.
Dates:
circa 1800-circa 1826.
Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.577-600
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13065/1-76
Scope and Contents
The collection reflects Sir Lewis Robertson`s personal and business activities during the later years of his life. The correspondence files, 2003-2008, and letter books, 2004-2008, show his active involvement in many charitable and cultural bodies until his death in November 2008. Of particular interest are several volumes of speeches and interviews, 1989-2003, and three diaries, 1978-1980, dated during his time as Director of the Scottish Development Agency. Sir Lewis Robertson kept an...
Dates:
Circa 1940-2008.
Cowie collection of manuscripts of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay and others, made by Charles R Cowie of Glasgow.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.15951-15975
Scope and Contents
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dates:
1720-1914, undated.
Indexes and transcripts by Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.9
Scope and Contents
Mylne`s pagination and the size of paper show that the volume is composed of seven separate parts: section (i), section (ii), section (iii), sections (iv) and (v), section (vi), sections (vii)-(xiii), section (xiv). None are exactly dated, but (v) must be later than 1705, (xiv) later than 1700; and probably all were compiled in the early 18th century.The contents are as follows:(i) `Ane Alphabeticall Index [A-C only] To the Book of Collections of Notes of Charters...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Letters addressed mostly to Dr Robert Anderson, editor of ‘The Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain’, ‘The Edinburgh Magazine’, etc. (there are a few to Bishop Thomas Percy and the Earl of Buchan).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.17
Scope and Contents
Anderson`s correspondents include many of the prominent men of his time, especially in the literary and antiquarian worlds; and the main topic is literature. The arrangement of the letters is due to Anderson’s son-in-law, Dr David Irving (Keeper of the Advocates’ Library): it is first of all by size, quarto letters in Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.16, octavo in Adv.MS.22.4.17 (for the folio letters, see Adv.MS.22.3.11), then the writers are roughly grouped according to their origin or occupation, and...
Dates:
1760-1830.
Microfilm of 'Admiralty letters sent' during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, with index.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1022
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'Admiralty letters sent', 1842-1847 (MS.2415);
'Admiralty letters sent', 1847 (MS.2416);
Index to 'Admiralty letters sent', [1847, or after] (MS.2417).
Dates:
1842-[1847, or after].
Microfilms of papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service in the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1036-1038
Dates:
1842-1847.
Miscellaneous papers consisting mostly of indexes to works of genealogical interest in the possession of Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane (folio 2), indexes to his copies of cartularies and other registers of mediaeval Scottish religious houses (folio 30), followed by some rentals of church lands and church appointments in the north of Scotland (folio 94) written, from information at folio 95 verso, about 1593.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.14
Dates:
Circa 1593, 18th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
17th century.
Transcripts, late 18th century (the paper of Adv.MS.22.2.5 being watermarked 1798), made for George Chalmers, the antiquary, of Thomas Innes`s ‘Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Scotland, from A.D 80 – A.D. 818’.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.5-22.2.6
Scope and Contents
The hand appears to be that of George Chalmers’s nephew, James Chalmers.
Dates:
2nd quarter of 18th century.
Volume of `Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1800-1826`, containing letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents.
Item
Identifier: Dep.213- is now Acc.9430.
Dates:
1800-1826.