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41 letters and documents, 1656-1667, mostly of General George Monck to Sir Thomas Morgan, Commander of the army in Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh.
Concern miltary arrangements.
With notebook, 1660, of Morgan as governor and later personal accounts, 1680s to 1690s.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Description of voyage to South Africa of Trooper Charles Hunter, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
Includes transcript of description. With letter and pocket book containg active service notes.
Diaries, 1832-1865, chiefly of Colonel James Halkett (1822-1870), Coldstream Guards, son of Hugh, Baron von Halkett, describing his service in Britain, Mauritius, India and the Crimea; with correspondence and related material, 1847-1863, concerning several other members of the Halkett family.
James Halkett was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Mauritius, Sir William Gomm, from 1842 to 1847, and to the Commander-in-Chief of India from 1850 to 1854. He was severely wounded in action in November 1854 and the diary for that year gives particular accounts of the battles he witnessed during the Crimean War.
Diaries, correspondence and notebooks of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet of Fasque and his family.
Family papers of the Frasers of Belladrum, 1563-1786; including a copy of one earlier document 1203x1222 concerning Brice De Douglas, Bishop of Moray and John Bisset of Lovat.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.
Letter and two note-books of the Reverend Ralph Erskine.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, General Sir George Murray.
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1810-1817, of, to, and concerning, General Sir George Murray, including two letters from Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington; with a notebook in Sir George's hand, chiefly concerning the Peninsular War (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and legal papers, 1824-1825, concerning Erskine v Murray (folio 29); (iii) Letter, 1845, of Sir George Murray probably to General Paul Anderson (folio 70).
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.
David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.
Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.
Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.
Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.
Includes related family letters and photographs.
Letters, poems, notebook and drawings of W.S. Graham.
Literary and personal papers of Ruthven Todd.
Literary papers and correspondence of Sorley Maclean.
Papers include Maclean's notes on literary and historical figures, correspondence with Maclean following the death of his brother Calum, and letters sent to Maclean's wife, Renee, after his death.
The Papers also contain correspondence, invitations and programmes on various literary awards and events at which Maclean was honoured and in attendence.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Microfilm of a notebook of Alexander Main, containing copies of letters to him from George Eliot and G H Lewes.
Microfilm of journals, notebooks, and draft letters of George Combe.
Microfilm of letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh; and notebook of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, containing reminiscences of Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Microfilm of original letters, 1831-1838, and copies, possibly 1841-1849, of letters 1841-1849, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn; and, notebook, [1852, or before], of Cockburn containing biographical details of Jeffrey.
The contents are as follows:
Copies, possibly 1841-1849, of letters, November 1841-October 1849, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn (Adv.MS.9.1.11);
Original letters, 1831-1838, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn, almost all of the period 1831-1834, and concerned with political and official business (Adv.MS.9.1.12);
Notebook, [1852, or before], of Henry Cockburn containing details of Francis Jeffrey’s family, and early life and career. (Adv.MS.9.1.13).