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Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Accounts of or relating to the family of Dun of Tarty in Aberdeenshire.
The accounts refer mostly to loans, rents, and bonds, but give a few instances of prices. Some appear to be the accounts of a factor or agent.
They start at both ends of a vellum-bound volume. Several leaves after folio 20 have been torn out. A modern note on the family is pasted on folio 21.
Accounts of the early oriental and classical mythical gods and heroes and Roman Emperors and Empresses, followed by notes on some classical fables.
The author's name appears as Dominicus Tagliaboscus on folio 142 verso, with the date 1702, and on folio 305.
Adam Drinan, "The Process of Writing Verse" (being a typescript of poem, "The Trossachs"), with typescript notes and comments.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
Album compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice, 1838-1864, entitled 'Scrabble Book Quebec, 1839', with notes 2013-2014 and undated, on Ellice family history in Canada and Glenquoich.
Album, containing notes taken by the father of Thomas Ross, the architect, of sermons preached by the Reverend John Caird, and drawings by Ross.
The sermons were preached in Errol Church in 1851 (folio 1).
Some of Thomas Ross's drawings bear dates from 1858 to 1919 (chiefly architectural sketches and designs), and some are evidently juvenile. Loose drawings and a sermon (folio 94) have been pasted in.
Album, containing 'Universal grammar...' written by James Trail, Minister of St Cyrus, and lecture notes on logic by his brother David Trail, Minister of Panbride.
Album of drawings of `An eight week`s tour in Scotland taken by ten Douglas`s`.
Drawings made on a tour in Scotland in 1845. Places visited include Dalkieth, Edinburgh, Roslin chapel, the Trossachs, Glencoe, Tyndrum, Ballahulish, Kinlochmore, Loch Leven, Dunolly Castle, Inverary, Newbattle and Hoddam Castle.
Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Albums of photographs of Highland Railway locomotives, compiled and annotated circa 1950.
Alchemy: a compilation.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Alexander Skinner's Manuscript of Piobaireachd, so-called from the inscription 'Presented to Mr. Duncan Campbell, Piper to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, by Alex. Skinner, Teacher of Dancing ... London, June 15, 1855'.
`Alphabet of Honnor: or The Succession and Armes of the Kinges, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Barons, and Gentry of England since the Conquest’.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Andrew B W MacEwen, "Notes on Rob Roy and the Family of Glengyle".
Anecdote probably about James, 1st Duke of Hamilton and his dog Turk in Germany.
Angus MacArthur’s manuscript of piobaireachd music.
This is the earliest known manuscript of pipe-music in which modern staff notation is used. It is now known as the Highland Society of London's manuscript and is described in Book I (1925) of the Piobaireachd Society's publications (page ii, number 2).
At the beginning of the volume is a note on the manuscript by Archibald Campbell, Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society (folio iii verso).
Annotated copy of May Sinclair, "A Defence of Idealism" (1917).
Includes three letters, 1923-1924, of the author to W J Jupp and Jupp`s annotations and presentation note, 1925, to J Ramsay MacDonald.
`Annotationes in Aristotelis physicam`: a volume of lecture notes taken by James Barclay from lectures by Robert Barron at St Salvator`s College, St Andrews.
The notes are followed by `Tractatus continens doctrinam Astronomicam` (folio 189), verses on the death of Henry, Prince of Wales, in 1612 (folio 199 verso), and `Solutio quorundam problematum ad elementorum explicationem pertinentium` (folio 201).