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Album of the Reverend John Kirk.
Includes University of St Andrews certificates, letters of Thomas Chalmers and others, cut signatures, sketches and plans.
Copies of papers of Alexander Hart.
Including:
1. photographs of three letters, 1820, 1847, of Alexander Hart
2. photograph of Hart in old age
3. Three certificates, 1814, of his brother, John.
Letters, 1924, of David Hay Fleming and Alexander Carlyle to John A Fairley.
With photocopies of births, late 18th century, of members of the Welsh family.
Letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Letters, press cuttings, and manuscript music concerning Bessie Kerr.
Bessie Kerr, a native of Banff, made her London début as a contralto in 1918, and from then until about 1934 sang regularly for the BBC, for Chappell 'Pop' concerts, and for Promenade concerts. Her correspondence includes letters of Sir Edward German and Frederic King her teacher at the Royal Academy of Music.
Material relating to Learmont Drysdale, the composer.
Included are Learmont Drysdale's certificates for drawing and musical composition, reports on his progress at the Royal Academy of Music, 1889-1890, some drawings (folios 6-7), and a photograph of Ladislao Zavertal with the Pollokshields Musical Society, 1875 (folio 10). There are two letters, 1927, 1949, concerning the material (folio 1); and the Lucas Memorial and Bronze medals of the Royal Academy (awarded 1890) are boxed with the collection.
Microfilm of letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of Mary Queen of Scots; with one letter of Mary of Guise.
Microfilm of proof-sheets, [1827, or before], of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott; and, letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
The contents are as follows:
Proof-sheets of 'The life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott, volume v, pages 225-240, with autograph corrections by Scott, [1827, or before] (MS.496);
Letters and papers, [1548-1550], chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland (MS.2991).
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers chiefly of or concerning Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Miscellaneous correspondence relating to engineering, much of it addressed to Robert Stevenson or his family, and apparently at one time part of the Stevenson family papers.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers concerning the family of John Lapraik.
Includes:
11 family letters to Thomas Lapraik, Muirkirk, 1810-1843 and undated
genealogical notes, 19th century
Burgess Ticket for Andrew Berry of Newmilns, 1843.
Papers concerning Thomas Jones, Edmund Morse Jones and George Sinclair Williamson.
Papers of Adam Elder, emigrant to Australia.
Papers of and concerning John Mackinnon.
Seven documents:
will, 1807, of Roderick Mackinnon
two letters, 1838, of Major Macdonald, 93rd Highlanders, in Halifax, Nova Scotia
furlough, 1835, containing physical description of John Mackinnon
pay list, 1839, of a recruiting party at Stornoway
discharge certificate, 1842, of John Mackinnon
certificate of pledge, 1849, of the Marine Temperance Society of New York.
Papers of and concerning William Murray.
Including photographs and copies of letters concerning Murray`s military service in the First World War.
The papers were received in three installments.
Papers of Hercules Ross.
Papers include copies of letters sent to Lord Nelson and letters sent by Ross during his time as a merchant at Kingston, Jamaica.