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Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22130-22133
Scope and Contents
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Dates:
1759-[circa 1947.]
Correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan, afterwards Baron Lynedoch, and of the Honourable Mary Cathcart, afterwards Mrs Graham, his wife.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.3590-3645
Dates:
1719-1850.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Dates:
1884-1936, undated.
Dialogue ‘De Oratoribus’, variously ascribed to Tacitus and to Quintilian, being pages 1183-1212 of a printed work, 'cum conjectures MS. D. Al. Cunninghamij [Alexander Cunningham], Hagae Comitum conscriptis vel potius collatis cum MS’.
Item
Identifier: MS.3400
Scope and Contents
The manuscript notes are all textual emendations.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents
Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates:
1892-1963, undated.
‘Kirk manuscripts’, copies of very miscellaneous papers on ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.5.8-11
Scope and Contents
According to the folio catalogue (F.R.186) the volumes were originally marked ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’.
The description of the manuscripts in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.7.7-10.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1796-1800
Dates:
1823-1875, undated.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Dates:
1779-1884.
Letters of celebrities, some accompanied by transcripts (not wholly accurate), notes, printed matter, and portraits.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3390-3399
Dates:
1745-1852, undated.
Metrical version of the Psalms, by Thomas Foxton.
File
Identifier: MS.635
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is inscribed: ‘Coningesby—Given me by Mr. Archer March—1752. Wrote by Thos. Foxton’. An article from ‘Notes and Queries’, 2nd series, volume ii, page 321, is inserted at folio i. The manuscript of this article, which is initialled J O, and a note on Thomas Foxton by Alexander Gardyne, are attached to the end-papers at the beginning of the volume.
Dates:
[1752, or before.]
Microfilm of biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1024-1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Microfilm of Kilberry book of piobaireachd. Papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus, numbers 148-290.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.951-952
Dates:
[?1892-?1958.]
Microfilms of papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service in the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1036-1038
Dates:
1842-1847.
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to engineering.
File
Identifier: MS.19989
Dates:
1815-1907.
Miscellaneous papers including household account book of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/26
Dates:
1711-1727, undated.
Music and other papers of John Davidson and James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22076-22077
Dates:
1896, 1917, 1922, undated.
Musical compositions and other papers, 1871-1926, undated, of John Davidson; and correspondence and compositions [circa 1883- circa 1917], undated, of James Scott Skinner.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22022-22075
Dates:
1871-1926, undated.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers (chiefly printed) originating with Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.3.3
Dates:
1804-1830.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the City of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/12
Dates:
1690-1695, 1731, 1749-1790, undated.