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Journal of Margaret Ramsay, describing her family life in Edinburgh, and as a school-teacher at Fochabers and Whithorn. The contents are largely personal, but mention is made of some current events.
Journals and papers of David Stephen, composer and organist.
The collection contains journals and some other papers of David Stephen (1869-1946), organist and composer in Dundee, Arbroath and St Andrews, and from 1903 music director of the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Kennel Book, 1797-1926, compiled by James Hunter Rutherford W.S. (adm.1877), of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. With correspondence, accounts and subscription lists, 1915-1948, of and relating to the Hunt.
The main interest of this collection lies in the Kennel Book. Its author, James Hunter Rutherford, was Honorary Secretary of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt and Master of Foxhounds from1915-1926. He was the author of The History of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt, 1775-1910, Edinburgh, 1911. The Kennel Book records every hound that was part of the hunt, its name, parentage and fate.
Large documents relating to the Free Church Missions.
Lecture of W Hiller, "The History of Polish Emigration in Great Britain".
With list of books on the subject.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letter, 1875, of James Braidwood to G W Napier.
With a list, undated, of editions of Browne`s "Religio Medici".
Letter-book containing official copies, in several hands, of correspondence and state papers during the Regency of the Earl of Lennox.
The manuscript covers the period from the murder of the Regent Moray in January 1570 until shortly before Regent Lennox`s death early in September 1571.
Letter books, correspondence and other records of the printing firm of T and A Constable, Edinburgh, together with records of the Edinburgh Press, which was amalgamated with the firm in 1936.
Letters addressed to James Browne, Doctor of Laws, Advocate, author of ‘A history of the Highlands’, with a few written by him and others regarding him.
Most of the correspondents are literary men, writing with reference to the ‘Caledonian Mercury’, which James Browne edited, but they include several other eminent contemporaries.
The letters have been bound and supplied with lists of the writers by James Grant, the novelist and historian, Browne's son-in-law, in 1862-1863.
Letters and copies of letters concerning the War of the Second Coalition against France, chiefly to General John Ramsay, son of the painter Allan Ramsay, some being addressed to Earl Whitworth and William Wickham.
The letters relate to the war against France, and particularly to dealings with Portugal and Russia, operations in Switzerland and the employment of Swiss troops, and the corps of the Prince of Condé. The writers include Baron Grenville, George Hammond, General Sir Robert Brownrigg, and the 1st Earl of Muzgrave.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount, together with some letters written by them.
The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.
Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to William E Henley, mainly concerning Stevenson`s work and discussing literary matters in general.
Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly from Stationers’ Hall, enclosing monthly lists of books.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning purchases of books, with bills and bills of lading.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning shipments of books and books entered in Stationers’ Hall.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
List and valuation of the library of the Rev William Shand, Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire.
List, arranged geographically, of the ministers, exhorters, and readers in Scotland, with their stipends, in 1568-1572, written by Robert Keith, Bishop of Fife.
Prefixed is a copy of Adv.MS.17.1.4, folio 2 (which belonged to Keith).
Originally part (Inv. XIV) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.
List, compiled after 1611, of bonds of manrent to various Earls of Angus between 1487 and 1602.
With possible contents list, 16th century, of a medical work.