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Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
'Memorials of his time' by Henry Cockburn (Edinburgh, 1856)
Bound in at the end is original correspondence of the publishers, A & C Black, regarding the publication, 1856.
Microfilm of collections of canntaireachd and piobaireachd.
The contents are as follows:
‘Canntaireachd: articulate music’ by John Francis Campbell (Glasgow, 1880), with manuscript notes, [1880, or after], by Alexander K Cameron (MS.9614);
"Collection of piobaireachd or pipe tunes as verbally taught by the M'Crummen Pipers" by Neil MacLeod (Edinburgh, 1880), with manuscript corrections by Simon Fraser, and other notes by Alexander K Cameron, [1880, or after] (MS.9615).
Microfilm of 'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume.
Microfilm of '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.
Microfilm of John Philp Wood’s frequently annotated copy of ‘A view of the political state of Scotland at the late General Election’ (Edinburgh, 1790), containing his signature dated 1790 at the half-title page, amendments and notes, mainly of deaths of electors, and names of later electors added in the margins and on the endpapers, with various dates from 1790 to 1804.
Microfilm of ‘Magnum Opus’ of Sir Walter Scott, volume 24: ‘Novels and romances of the author of Waverley [Sir Walter Scott]. Volume VI. Peveril of the peak [continued and] Quentin Durward [part only]’ (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. 1824); interleaved with the author’s annotations, corrections and additions, 1828-1831.
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Microfilm of ‘Re-collections of an Indian Civilian’ by Francis Jeffrey Cockburn (London, 1906).
Microfilm of ‘The Earl of Gowrie: a tragedy’ (London, 1845) by James White; with considerable manuscript alterations, circa 1846, by the author.
Microfilm of 'Walk across Africa’ (Edinburgh and London, 1864), by James Augustus Grant.
Microfilms of the ‘Earnock manuscripts’ containing correspondence and papers, chiefly concerning the publication of James Currie’s 'Works of Robert Burns, with an account of his life', 1st-8th editions.
Minutes and other papers of the Edinburgh branches of the Union of Communication Workers (formerly the Union of Post Office Workers).
Minutes, reports and other papers of the voluntary organisation, Play in Scottish Hospitals.
Minutes, with some associated administrative papers, relating to the Church of Scotland Blantyre Mission, Malawi; and works concerning the history of the mission.
Miscellaneous items of or concerning Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
Framed declaration, 1786, by Elizabeth Paton regarding her child by Robert Burns;
Exciseman`s notes by Robert Burns;
Four letters, 1816-1829, of Sir Walter Scott to Joseph Train;
Volume containing a manuscript copy, 1896, of `Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott commencing in the year 1814` by Joseph Train;
Printed book, `The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott` (1897) by George G Napier.
“Miscellaneous Remarks on ‘The Enquiry into The Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots’" by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes (London, 1784), containing numerous critical marginalia throughout in the hand of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.
Fraser Tytler has added further notes and comments, dated 1800, on a bifolium tipped in at page 41.
The pamphlet appears to have been bound up at some time in a volume with several others.
'Monarchicke tragedies’ (London, 1607) by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, containing an autograph sonnet of William Drummond of Hawthornden to Alexander, and marginal notes, marking parallel passages chiefly from Sir Philip Sydney’s ‘Arcadia’.
‘Novels and tales of the author of Waverley’, volume v (The Antiquary and Rob Roy) by Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1822), containing two letters, 1829, undated, to Captain Basil Hall about the original Monkbarns.
`Observations on a work called Remarks on Colonel Stewart`s Sketches of the Highlanders`, a copy of Major-General David Stewart of Garth`s reply to the anonymous author of the ‘Remarks’, who had criticised Stewart`s ‘Sketches of the Highlanders’.
A printed copy of the ‘Remarks’ is bound with the manuscript.
'Ocean, Stella, and other poems', 2nd edition (Edinburgh, 1830) by John Mackenzie, minister of Portpatrick, inscribed 'from the author', with an anonymous poem, 'The charming woman', tipped in at the end.
The poem, 'The charming woman', is addressed to Miss Agnes Mackenzie, probably by John Mackenzie to his daughter.
‘Opera omnia’ (Leyden, 1725) by George Buchanan, with occasional manuscript notes by Thomas Ruddiman.
Pages 11-22 of the unauthorised American edition of ‘Two of them’ (New York, 1893), a short story by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the author's hand.
In addition to the many revisions in the author's hand, there is an entirely new opening (folio 1) in manuscript, taking the place of the first ten pages of the original printed text. Otherwise the most important alteration is the change from the first to the third person throughout the narration.