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Four audio cassettes containing recordings of poetry readings and a lecture by Gavin Ewart.
Lecture of G P Johnston to the Edinburgh Assistant Booksellers` Association on Anna Maria van Schurman.
Lecture of W Hiller, "The History of Polish Emigration in Great Britain".
With list of books on the subject.
'Lecture on ragged schools' by Thomas Guthrie.
The lecture is preceded (folio 1) by notes of its contents in another hand.
Lectures and notes by James Moor, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.
Lectures and notes of Charles E Green, the Edinburgh publisher, chiefly on musical, literary or religious themes.
The lectures and notes are not in chronological order and only a few record the occasion of delivery.
Lectures and notes of Charles H Morris.
Concerning private presses, William Morris and children`s books.
Lectures and sermons by ministers of the Church of Scotland; with a list of contents and a transcript of one of the sermons, in a modern hand.
Lectures, lecture notes and journals of James Wright and Walter Macleod, ministers of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh.
For James Wright's career, see David Scott, ‘Annals and statistics of the Original Secession Church’ (Edinburgh, 1886), pages 562-563.
Walter Macleod succeeded Wright in the charge of Lauriston Street Original Secession Church, Edinburgh on the latter's death in 1879.
Lectures on Aristotle delivered by Robert Balfour at the College of Guyenne, Bordeaux.
Lectures on criminal law delivered at Edinburgh by Alexander Bayne, Professor of Scotch law at the University of Edinburgh.
These lectures of Alexander Bayne’s are a great deal fuller than his ? of discourse ? for the use of students in his class.
Lectures on Scots Law of Baron David Hume.
Corresponding roughly to the contents of volumes 1, 2 and chapters xiv, xv and xvi of volume 3 in Stair Society edition.
'Lectures on the Civil Law of Scotland; Delivered in the University of Edinburgh by David Hume Esqr., In the years 1794-5; 1795-6; 1797-8', ?written by Archibald Bell.
Lectures on the law of Scotland by George L Ross, Advocate, Lecturer of Scots Law, the University of Edinburgh.
Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: ‘Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen’.
Lectures on Torsellino by Pieter Burman: `Viri eruditissimi Petri Burmanni professoris in Acad. Lugd. Batav. celeberrimi Dictata in Horatii Tursellini Historiarum Epitomen`.
Pieter Burman the elder was Professor of History, Greek, and Eloquence at Leyden from 1715 to 1741. In these lectures he seems to have used the work of Tursellinus (Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599; the ‘Historiarum Epitome’ was first published in 1620, and frequently reprinted) as a framework for discourses on universal history. The writer of the dictates is unknown.
'Lectures upon Pharmacy by Wm. Cullen M:D: Edinburgh', undated.
Letters to and of Janet Adam Smith, author, journalist and mountaineer. With typescripts of talks on mountaineering
Letters, typescripts of lectures, diagrams, notes, and miscellaneous papers of Sir Patrick Geddes, Sociologist and Town Planner, and of his son Dr Arthur Geddes.
Literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte, including diaries and journals, correspondence, notes for lectures on Scottish literature, and manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, fiction and critical works.
Literary correspondence and papers of Mollie Hunter.
Includes manuscripts of novels, short stories and non-fiction, research notes, lectures and reviews.
Literary papers, a political notebook and letters of Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Politician and Author [1845-1937]. With three letters to Gavin Maxwell.
The main interest of the papers lies in the manuscripts and proofs of some of Sir Herbert’s many literary works including `Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence`, 1897, `The Chevalier of the Splendid Crest`, 1900, `A Century of Empire, 1801-1900`, 1909, `Inter-alia : A Scottish Calendar of Crime and other historical essays`, 1924, and `Evening Memories`, 1932.