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Account of the trial of Alexander Wilson, the weaver-poet and ornithologist, at the instance of William Sharp, in connexion with his poem ‘The Shark’.
In accordance with the order of the Sheriff-Substitute, Alexander Wilson publicly burned two copies of the poem at the Tolbooth, Paisley. Bound with a printed copy of ‘The Shark’, 1792.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
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.
Album of occasional verse, verse epistles, etc., apparently by Lady Frances Scott, afterwards Baroness Douglas.
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
‘Ancient Scottish poems’ (London, 1786) by John Pinkerton, with manuscript notes by David Macpherson, editor of Wyntoun.
Animadversions by Henry Cockburn on his client, the murderer David Haggart, and on ‘The convict’, a poem occasioned by his execution; written in a copy of ‘The convict’ (Edinburgh, 1821).
Apparently unpublished poem by Mrs Alison Cockburn entitled 'Adieu to My Garden 23rd Novʳ. 1777', tipped into a copy of ‘Letters and Memoir of her own Life by Mrs Alison Rutherford or Cockburn’ (Edinburgh, 1900).
On the page facing the half-title page is an inscription dated May 1900 of T Craig-Brown, who compiled the notes to the printed work, presenting this copy to his daughter.
Audio recording, [from the insert] "Waves and Furrows. The Poetry of David Morrison, Read by Himself".
Audio recordings of Edwin Muir reading his own poetry when he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University.
‘Auswahl Deutscher Lieder’ (Leipzig, 1830), belonging to Professor John Stuart Blackie, with verses written by him in pencil on the flyleaves.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Autograph album with the name Jessie Begbie stamped on the cover; containing verses (originals and copies), prose extracts and drawings.
Autograph manuscripts of three apparently unpublished poems by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Autograph version, apparently unpublished, of 'Peebles to the Play' by James Ballantine.
The manuscript does not appear to have been published. However, a version of the poem was prepared for the inauguration of the Chambers' Institution, Peebles, 1859.
'Ballad of Bond Street or the Careful Choice', an apparently unpublished poem, probably by Alexander Maclehose, addressed to his parents Dr and Mrs James Maclehose.
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
Cartulary of the Earls of Winton, in a seventeenth century hand.
The charters are arranged in four books dealing with the lands of Elphinstone (folio 6), Tranent (folio 49), Hartsheid (folio 176), and Kirkliston and Winchburgh (folio 184). At the end (folio 219 verso) is a humorous quatrain by the copyist.
"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Collection, made in the eighteenth century, of Jacobite songs, odes, satirical verse, etc.
Collection of holograph manuscripts of authors of the early 20th century.
Collection of poems copied by several hands and including work by Byron, Scott and Thomas Campbell among others.
Some of the poems were copied at Dundee, Glasgow, London and Brechin Castle, and the volume appears to have belonged to members of the Robertson family of Dundee. There are pencilled notes on the different branches of the family inside the front cover.
Collection of sacred religious hymns and verses.
The hymns and verses are by William Lighton, Robert Sandeman, William Sandeman, J.G?, and others whose initials are given.
Collection of Spanish poetry.
The poetry is anonymous.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.190) includes the reference: (W.6.45).