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Composite volume consisting of several commonplace books of William Thoirs of Muiresk, born 1666, covering the years 1705-1724, but also containing earlier material.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.14
Scope and Contents
The commonplace books were bound together but not in chronological order. Some are made up from old legal style books (folios 161, 197, 248, 331, 479), one (circa 1697) belonging to a James Strachan (folio 199). The contents of the volumes are predominantly Episcopalian and Jacobite in sympathies, covering a range of theology, drama, poetry, polemic and ephemera. There is a copy of Dr Archibald Pitcairne`s Anti-Presbyterian play ‘The Assembly’ (folio 162) and also several pages of elaborate...
Dates:
1705, and before-1724.
Copy of William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI, Part III" (1936), with marginalia of J Dover Wilson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7527
Dates:
1936.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10888/1-82
Dates:
1920s-1990s
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2229-2232
Dates:
1796-1797.
Programme and annotated prompt copy of Frederic Mohr`s play "The Admiral Jones", as produced by the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association.
File
Identifier: Acc.11004
Dates:
1993.
Prompt copy of the play ‘Cramond brig, or the gude man o’ Ballangeich’, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Sadlers Wells.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.43
Dates:
19th century.
Prompt copy of two productions of ‘Guy Mannering’ a musical play by Daniel Terry, based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23133
Dates:
1827, 1840-1869.
Prompt scripts of 83 plays performed at The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5086/1-84
Dates:
[1948-1963].