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Digest of service in South Africa, 1899-1902 by 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
A copy in typescript carbon presented, December 1903, by Colonel Forbes Macbean and Captain W E Gordon to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill-Gardyne.
Document concerning judgement given at the magistrate`s court at Nigrita, in Modern Greek.
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Edinburgh Christian Council for Overseas Students (ECCOS) archive.
Evidence for Parliament, copied from reports in the "Dumfries and Galloway Courier".
Concerning the Caledonian Railway.
Exemplification of recovery of the Forest of Westbeare (Hants), containing portrait of Charles I.
Extracts from the proceedings of the Althing of Iceland.
Faculty of Advocates Library curators' and keepers' reports.
Folio volume reporting `The proceidings of the Generall assemblie at Glasgow November 21. 1638`, in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Transactions of all 27 sessions of the Assembly from 21 November to 20 December are recorded in greater detail than the summary in Balfour`s ‘Annales of Scotland` (cf. his ‘Historical Works’, volume 2, pages 301-316), but less fully than in Robert Wodrow`s report of the proceedings printed in ‘Records of the Kirk of Scotland’, volume 1, pages 128-193.
Further papers of Jim Mearns.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, concerning his research and non-parliamentary interests.
Genealogies and other papers of Sir James Balfour.
A volume titled ‘Balfour’s Genealogies’, containing:
1. A copy of ‘Genealogies of the Scottish nobility’ (Adv.MS.33.2.39).
2. Commission for the valuation of teinds, and proceedings of the commissioners, 1627-1643.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.4.25).
Henry Mackenzie's copy of the "Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian" (Edinburgh, 1805), drawn up by himself; with a few corrections and additions in his hand.
The corrections and additions occur on pages iii-iv, 46, 71-72, 82, 102, and Appendix, page 76.
`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.
At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.
Incomplete report of Richard Le Gallienne on André Raffalovich, "The Thread and the Path".
Inquiry into the late public conduct of the Hon the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates by Stuart Moncreiff Threipland.
Includes papers concerning the disputed election for Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.
Interloquitur, 1805, fixing the boundaries of Chirnside Commonty; report, 1836, on a dispute with regard to the boundaries; and two plans, undated, of the Conmonty, one endorsed 'Bishop's Plan', at scales of 10 and 5 inches to the mile.
Jacobite papers deriving from W B Blaikie`s collection.
Including:
manuscript draft report, circa 1745, on Sir John Cope`s military operations
manuscript verses, 1745, on Gladsmuir
"A Chronological Table of Military Operations in Great Britain, 1745-1746".
Journal and report describing agricultural conditions in Mull.
Journal of a small antiquarian society.
With reports on excursions by Patrick Neill, James Walker and John Stark.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.