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Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9533/1-414
Scope and Contents Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates: 1792-1990.

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.

Correspondence of Professor Alastair David Shaw Fowler.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12377/1-49
Scope and Contents

This accession is one of several in the National Library of Scotland covering mainly incoming correspondence, but also containing copies of some outgoing letters and other literary material.

Acc.12377/49 is an A-Z person index to the collection, and gives biographical details of many of the figures involved.

Dates: 1967-2001, undated.

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.

'Divine aenigms and pious problems', poems by John Donne, son of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.

 Item
Identifier: MS.634
Scope and Contents

The poems are dedicated to Francis, Baron Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford. There are three illustrative diagrams, the ‘ensignes’ of the twelve Patriarchs, and ‘an index of most remarkable matters’.

Dates: 17th century.

Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates: 1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.

‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, a transcript made for Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, 1738, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.3.10
Scope and Contents

Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (pages 249). The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index which is placed at the beginning in the original, is here transferred to the end (page 263).

Dates: Late 15th century-early 16th century.

‘Extracta ex variis chronicis Scotiae’, an incomplete transcript, early 18th century, taken from the original manuscript, Adv.MS.35.6.13, a collection of extracts of chronicles, late 15th century-early 16th century, mostly taken from Fordun and Boece with extensive annotations in the hand of Sir William Sinclair of Roslin.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.5
Scope and Contents

A number of items in the Wodrow collection are in the same hand, and the copyist appears to have worked fairly frequently for Robert Wodrow. Later additions in the original are here collected at the end (page 159) and partially in a different hand, but the copyist breaks off in mid-entry at folio 296 verso of the original. The folio numbers of the original are given in the margin, and the index, which is placed at the beginning in the original, is omitted.

Dates: Late 15th century-early 16th century.

Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.8
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later, with some additional material taken from ‘The Great historical geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary’ (page 1).(ii) Genealogical material taken partly from Camden, Dugdale and other historians (page 395).(iii) Verses on the death of William, 6th Earl of Douglas (page 480)....
Dates: 1685, or later.

Index by John Walker to theological works.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.3.9
Scope and Contents

Volume titled ‘Chronological M.S. vol I’, with inscription on the fly leaf, ‘Inchoatus est hic inven anno Dom. millesimo septingentesimo et nono, die Januar. Vicesimo sento. Jo Walker’.

Dates: Early 18th century.

Index, early 18th century, to ‘Mercurius Aulicus’ for 1641-1661, in the hand of Robert Mylne, “as also to the large vol. of Mercurius”.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.1
Scope and Contents

The author has arranged the contents as five volumes in one.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.v.8.9.

Dates: Early 18th century.

Index, in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand, to the first volume of his ‘Grammaticae Latinae Institutiones’ (Edinburgh, 1725).

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.1.10
Scope and Contents

The index is to Liber I and II only.

Dates: ?1725, or before.

Index of books, undated, at the Faculty of Advocates Library.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.336x
Scope and Contents

Alphabetical index of books alongside members name.

Dates: 19th century-early 20th century.

Index of law books in the Faculty of Advocates Library by Thomas Ruddiman.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.219
Scope and Contents

Index of law books as was brought into the Advocates Library before January 1697, continued to the 1st January 1702.

Dates: 1697-1702.

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Campbell, Duncan, schoolmaster and newspaper editor, 1827-1916 1
Campbell, Ian, Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1942 1
Campbell, Sir Alexander, 2nd Baronet, of Barcaldine, 1819-1880 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fuller, Rosalie Trail, Lincoln, Nebraska, fl 1981 1
Henderson, John Murdoch, musician, 1902-1972 1
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Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder (Jurist) 1
Lauder, Sir John, 2nd Baronet, Lord Fountainhall, judge, 1646-1722 1
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Pearson, Ernest, author of "A Study in Philology: Polyglot Comparative Vocabularies ...", fl 1905-1913 1
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Quaich, McGregor family genealogical journal 1
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Reith, George Murray, Minister of St Cuthbert’s United Free Church, Edinburgh, 1863-1948 1
Robertson, Eric Harald Macbeth, artist, 1887-1941 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008: former owner 1
Ross, Walter (Lawyer and Writer to the Signet) 1
Saltire Review 1
Saltire Society 1
Sanderson and Paterson, Galashiels, timber merchants 1
Scottish National Dictionary Association 1
Siddons, Harriet (actress, née Murray) 1
Taylor, George, Sir, Knight (botanist) 1
Theatre Royal, Edinburgh 1
Trail, Reginald Magnus, Lieutenant-Colonel, fl 1950 1
Trail, family, of Blebo 1
University of Caen Normandy 1
Watson, William John Ross, Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1865-1948 1
Winn, Godfrey I Burgess, Colonel, member of the Edinburgh Society of Organists, d 1981 1
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