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Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
Letters of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to the Earl of Rosebery, written chiefly in his capacity of Secretary of State for War.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.208
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1882-August 1894 (MS.10002);
Letters, [October 1894-1907] (MS.10003).
Dates:
[1882-1907.]
Letters to David Hume from writers with surnames beginning with L-R.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1125
Dates:
[1749-1776.]
Microfilm and partial photocopy of transcripts of letters of Marie de Rabutin Chantal to her daughter.
File
Identifier: Acc.8186- is now Rare Book Division.
Dates:
1671-1696.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Series
Identifier: MS.10775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(1) Journal, 11 November 1853-26 May 1856. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 4.
(2) Journal, 2 August 1858-9 January 1859. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 6.
(3) Journal, 1 December 1859-11 June 1860, 3 December 1860-23 March 1861.
See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham,...
Dates:
1853-1874.
Microfilm, chiefly of correspondence of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.513-515
Dates:
1843-1900.
Microfilm copy of a letter of Marcel Proust to C. K. Scott Moncrieff, and of two letters of Robert Proust to J. M. Scott Moncrieff.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.447-[Acc.2616]
Dates:
1922-1931.
Microfilm of 14th century copy of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century; and, late 14th century manuscript of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.454
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
English manuscript, 14th century, of the ‘Historia Anglorum’ of Henry of Huntingdon, 12th century (Adv.MS.33.5.2);
Manuscript written in England in the late 14th century by several hands of the ‘Chronicle’ of Walter of Guisborough (Adv.MS.33.5.3).
Dates:
12th century, late 14th century.
Microfilm of 51 letters addressed to the Chevalier Andrew Ramsay by his fellow mystics.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.792
Dates:
1708-1710.
Microfilm of a notebook of Alexander Main, containing copies of letters to him from George Eliot and G H Lewes.
Item
Identifier: MS.15551 [Mf.MSS.30]
Dates:
1871-1877.
Microfilm of a volume, 1859, concerning the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth gathered by the Boston Burns Club; and, letters and poems, 1785-1867, of and concerning, Robert Burns gathered by Adam Sim of Coulter.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1004
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
A volume, 1859, concerning the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth gathered by the Boston Burns Club (Acc.10847);
Letters and poems of, 1785-1867, and relating to, Robert Burns gathered by Adam Sim of Coulter; including letters of Allan Cunningham and of Robert Tannahil (MS.23150).
Dates:
1785-1867.
Microfilm of 'Admiralty letters', from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station, volume 2-4; and index.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1016-1018
Dates:
1844-[1847, or after].
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].
Microfilm of African Missions. Papers of the Mission of the United Presbyterian Church. 1861-1928 (Adam Matthew Publications).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1979-1992
Dates:
[?1861-?1928.]
Microfilm of “Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee Indians, who died in 1775.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1191
Dates:
[Circa 1760.]
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.465
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, 1686-1689, of ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio’, being Richard Augustine Hay’s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 1. (Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)); Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel, containing copies of papal bulls and other documents, 1501-1537...
Dates:
13th century-1689.
Microfilm of assorted letters, 15th century-1st quarter of 20th century; and, photographs, ?1920, of the manuscript, [before 1842], described as the ‘Cromarty Manuscript’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.132
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Assorted letters, with a receipt and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston, 15th century-1st quarter of 20th century (Adv.MS.7.1.19);Photographs, ?1920, of the manuscript, [before 1842], described by John Sobieski Stuart in his edition of the ‘Vestiarum Scoticum’ (Edinburgh, 1842), and further discussed by him in his “Reply to the ‘Quarterly Review’ [June, 1847] upon the ‘Vestiarium Scoticum’”, where it is described as...
Dates:
15th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of ‘Autograph letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1800-1826’, chiefly to Charles Erskine and James Curle.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.972
Dates:
1800-1826.
Microfilm of Autograph manuscript of `Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imperatore tenuto al re Philippo suo figliuolo In dargli la libera signoria di tutti gli stati suoi`, Giacomo Castelvetro`s translation, 1592, of Charles V`s advice to his son, 1555.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2001
Dates:
1555.
Microfilm of chiefly letters, chiefly of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1140-1144
Dates:
[1792-1831.]
Microfilm of chiefly letters of and to James Robert Hope-Scott.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.924-927
Dates:
[?1836-?1873.]