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Copy of ‘Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky (London, 1733) with manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.4.2
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains extracts of two letters, ?circa 1690, concerning the attitude of James VII towards the Church of England (folio 1), and `Some additional Characters of the chief of the last Ministry`, 1715, signed M S (folio 3). The characters, which are apparently copied from another manuscript, are of Bolingbroke, Stafford, the Bishop of London and others. The annotations, writtenbetween 1781 and 1797, are signed `M.` and `E.M.` and are mostly copies of notes by...
Dates:
Circa 1690, 1715, 1733, 1781-1797.
Copy of ‘Short stories, scraps and shavings’ (London, 1934) by George Bernard Shaw, with two postcards from Shaw inserted concerning the production of the book and an insurance payment.
File
Identifier: MS.19643
Dates:
1933, 1943.
Copy of “The Royal Naval Engineers` Note Book” by John R Harvey (Chatham, 1889), in which are written lists of Scottish topographical works arranged in order of county, followed by a list of family histories.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.3
Scope and Contents
The lists appear to have been compiled about 1896 in the Advocates` Library and kept up until about 1903, which appears to be the latest date quoted.
Dates:
1889, 1896-1903.
Copy of ‘Underwoods’ (London, 1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson, with two letters of Stevenson to Sir Herbert Maxwell, 1894, inserted.
File
Identifier: MS.19642
Scope and Contents
Two other letters to Sir Herbert Maxwell dated 1916 and 1929 are also inserted.
Dates:
1894, 1916, 1929.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.5
Scope and Contents
Tucker had been sent to Scotland in the autumn of 1655 to set up the customs and to re-establish the excise, and his report, dated 20 November 1656, was written after his return to London. The report is followed by an unmarked copy of ‘Rules, Orders and Instructions, Made and Published by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in Scotland ...’ (Edinburgh, 1656) (folio 54), and by `The forme of the Cash or Day Booke to be kept by the severall Collectors of Customs and Excise in...
Dates:
1655-1656.
Corrected copy of ‘Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society’ by Samuel Smiles (London, 1876), containing a letter from Edward, 1876, and one from his daughter Frances, 1877, both to the author.
File
Identifier: MS.9655
Scope and Contents
The text has numerous minor corrections nearly all amending the technical Latin.
Dates:
1876, 1877.
Corrections and additions to ‘Letters and recollections of Sir Walter Scott' (London, 1904) by Mary Anne Hughes, from a collation with the originals in the possession of Messrs W Heffer & Sons, Ltd, Cambridge.
Series
Identifier: MSS.130A-B
Dates:
[1904, or after.]
Correspondence and papers, chiefly relating to the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1653-1655
Dates:
1797-1819.
Correspondence and papers, circa 1950-1991, of Vincent and Ann Flynn.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11504
Scope and Contents
Includes printed papers concerning printers` and bookbinders` unions, 1846-1920 and 1959.
Dates:
1846-1991.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Correspondence and papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.349
Dates:
1896-1938, and undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.323- is now Acc.13476.
Dates:
1944-1978.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.6.3(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1789.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.13(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Each volume contains Macpherson`s signature on the verso of the title page and numerous marginalia, many of which are quite lengthy, throughout, as well as additional notes and extracts on scraps, and some sheets, of paper tipped in at appropriate places. According to a note on the verso of the title page of volume i, Macpherson `inserted everything that occurred to me in printed authors or in manuscript records, which is useful correcting the errors, or supplying the defects of Sir David...
Dates:
1776, 1779.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘History of Scotland from the accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary’, 2 volumes, (London, 1797) by John Pinkerton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.14(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Macpherson’s signature is on the verso of the title page of each volume, and a number of usually brief marginalia are scattered throughout volume i, and a few more in volume ii, mostly at the beginning. A few undated notes on scraps of paper are tipped in.
Dates:
1797.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.21(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
By far the majority of the notes are in volume i, volume ii being quite lightly marked. Some of these are quite lengthy, and many express disagreement with Maitland. One note, at page 142, is dated 1788, another, at page 227, refers to 1791; the rest are undated.The only additions to the printed leaves are a scrap of paper tipped in between pages 414-415, a prospectus for Macpherson`s edition of ‘Orygynall Cronykyl of Scotland’, 1795, tipped in between pages 756-757, and a...
Dates:
1757.
“Dean of Lismore’s book: a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by Sir James M’Gregor, Dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, edited with a translation and notes by the Rev Thomas M’Lauchlan, and an introduction and additional notes by W F Skene, Esq” (Edinburgh, 1862), with corrections in the hand of Donald C MacPherson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.9
Dates:
1862.
Diary of John Nicoll, Writer to the Signet.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.1
Scope and Contents
The diary records political and other events of the time, and includes copies of proclamations and other current publications.
Dates:
1650-1667.
'Domestic manners and private life of Sir Walter Scott’ by James Hogg (Glasgow, 1834), containing a brief note from Scott to James Ballantyne, 1824, and an undated note from Hogg to Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: MS.9610
Dates:
1824-1834, undated.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10492-10497
Dates:
1800-1832, 1933-1937, 1946, undated.
‘Elves and heroes’ (Inverness, 1909), by Donald Alexander Mackenzie, the author's copy, with alterations and additional poems in his own hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.19311
Dates:
[1909, or after.]
‘Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language’ (Inverness, 1896) and ‘Further Gaelic words and etymologies’ (Inverness, 1899) by Alexander Macbain, with manuscript notes on Gaelic words, etc., probably by George Henderson, Lecturer in Celtic in Glasgow.
File
Identifier: MS.2556
Dates:
1896, 1899, undated.
'Evergreen', 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1761) by Allan Ramsay with numerous manuscript corrections and variants of the Maitland manuscript throughout.
Series
Identifier: MSS.494-495
Scope and Contents
There are also critical notes (MS.494, fly-leaf) by Bishop Percy.
Dates:
1761.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.8942-8989
Dates:
1820-1893.
'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of the two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections.
File
Identifier: MS.509
Scope and Contents
The proofs of the suppressed dissertations (pages 201 bis-240 bis) are included in addition to the four on 'The Natural History of Religion', 'Of the Passions', 'Of Tragedy', and 'Of the Standard of Taste'.
A slip affixed to the fly-leaf has the following in David Hume’s handwriting: 'This Book is to be considered a Manuscript and to deliverd [sic] to Mr. Strahan according to my Will'.
Dates:
1757.