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‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
'Thomas Carlyle ... 1795-1835', 2 volumes (London, 1882), and 'Thomas Carlyle ... 1834-1881', 2 volumes (London, 1884), by James Froude, with notes and corrections on the margins and endpapers by Alexander Carlyle, undated.
Three letters to Captain Charles Gray, Royal Marines, regarding his ‘Familiar Epistle addressed to Peter McLeod’ (Edinburgh, 1845), in which they are pasted.
'Tracts relative to the history and antiquities of Scotland' (Edinburgh, 1800), by David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Contains catalogues of Lords of Session, with manuscript additions and of Faculty, 1532-1688.
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.
‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.
Typescript "Memories of the Advocates' Library" by William K Dickson, formerly Keeper of the Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
With a copy of William K Dickson’s ‘The National Library of Scotland', in ‘Juridical Review’, volume xl (1928), and a paper on the author by A A Grainger Stewart, ‘Scots Law Times’, December 1905 (both printed).
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
'Verge of the Scottish Highlands’ by William Palmer (London, 1947), containing corrections and other revisions in the author's hand; with the original book jacket and various letters and notes discussing the corrections.
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
'Voyage round Great Britain' by William Daniell and Richard Ayton (London, 1814-1825); with a list of plates, and with manuscript itinerary and notes by Sir Walter Scott.
The full set of plates is included, but not the folding map.
‘Walk to the Culbin Sands; being a lecture delivered at the Nairn Literary Institute, Nairn’, [1882], containing a letter from the author to Sir Arthur Mitchell, 1900, on local bibliography.
Walter Macfarlane’s annotated copy of George Crawfurd’s ‘The peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1716).
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Work-book of John Shirley, Solicitor, containing his fair copy, written out in full, of his ‘History of Scottish Law’.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Working notes by Alexander Philip, the author of several books on the calendar.
'Works, in prose and verse, of Alexander Pennecuik, Esq., of Newhall, M.D.’, volume i (Leith, 1814), containing corrections to the text and additions in the margins of many of the pages made at different times by Robert Brown of Newhall and Carlops, advocate, who edited this edition and provided an introductory memoir of the author.
According to a note at the top of the title page this was a 'Corrected Copy, for a New Edition', but no such edition appears to have been published, and the whereabouts of the 'Additions and Corrections in a separate M.S. written more accurately and fully' are not known.
Attached to the flyleaf preceding the title page are a cutting from an unidentified sale catalogue, and notes in an unknown hand concerning plants found on and about Habbie's How and Newhall in August 1897.