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Copy of a report, 1786, to Cardinal Giovanni Archinto concerning the supply of priests in Scotland.
With extract of letter, 1784, from bishops [? George] Hay, Alexander MacDonald and [John?] Geddes to Leonardo Antonelli.
Copy of "Posting Book, with Tables for Calculating the Expense of Horses and Post-Boys" (1837), with annotations concerning journeys in Scotland.
Copy of Robert Spottiswoode, "Practicks of the Laws of Scotland".
Copy of Thomas Pennant, "A Tour in Scotland" (London: Benjamin White, 1776, 4th edition), with marginalia by the author and pencil corrections by his son David.
With a letter, 1806, of Longman and Co declining to reprint the work.
Corrected typescript drafts and proofs of William Wolfe, "Scotland Lives" (1973).
With associated notes and correspondence.
Correspondence, minutes, journals and other papers concerning "Democracy for Scotland", a campaign for the reintroduction of a Scottish Parliament.
Diaries of James Willliam Drummond.
Describing a visit to Shetland, 1874, a walking tour in Norway, 1875, climbs in the Alps, 1899-1903, and a yacht cruise off the west coast of Scotland, undated.
With diary, 1880-1881, of Williamina McPhee Drummond, of a cruise in the Mediterranean.
Diaries of Margaret Mackenzie Scott.
Concerning her personal experiences during the siege of Budapest (with typed transcript of these years) and at home after the War.
Diary entitled, "Three Weeks in Scotland during the Autumn of 1861".
Diary of Charles Livingston.
Concerning a voyage in the yacht "Kentra" along the west coast of Scotland.
Diary of Marion Thomson.
Concerning a journey in Scotland with Lord Cockburn and his party and also to a journey on the Continent.
Diary of Martha Phillips relating to a visit to Scotland.
Diary of Sir John Hill, RN, detailing his mission to Scotland in 1837 to relieve distress caused by the famine.
Includes letters of commission from the Government and other associated papers and correspondence; with a volume of typed transcripts.
Diary of the Honourable Elsie Cameron Corbett.
The diary contains descriptive daily entries on Corbett's social life around her family's estates in Ayrshire, Scotland and in Chelsea, London, and remarks on contemporary Liberal politics, including the progress of campaigns for women's suffrage. The volume also contains a large number of pasted-in snapshot photographs taken by Corbett and her family in Scotland, and cuttings from London theatre programmes and periodicals.
Estate and other plans and maps, with some drawings, concerning various places in Scotland.
Five manuscript hand-coloured apprentice maps prepared by Thomas H Walker.
Maps are of Scotland, Corsica, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Indian subcontinent and the Loch More-Ben Stack area of Sutherland.
Five maps of estates in the North East of Scotland.
1 Common of Teighside, 1799
2 Kirktown Mill, 1804
3 Kirk Road to Belhelvie, circa 1809
4 parts of Camphill, undated
5 Wester Tolmands, 1859.
"Forms of Processes Observed in the Sherrif Court", with ownership inscription of Wm Mackinlay.
Four Scottish genealogical manuscripts.
Including, "The Genealogie of the Famalie of Ruthven" and "A Breviat of the Genealogie of ... the Leslies Earles of Rothes".
Fragment of Sir Walter Scott, "History of Scotland".
"From King's Cross to Euston via the Caledonian Canal", tour journal of Henry Lambert.
Lambert and his wife tour Scotland for a month in the summer of 1892, meeting up with four of their children at Oban. The Lamberts visit places including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Braemar, Pitlochry, Dunkeld, Oban, Inverness and Glasgow.
Game book of Duncan Campbell of Smith Hall.
Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.
Game book of J A Anderson.
Details shoots at Tullichewan and other places in Scotland.
Handwritten and typescript `wartime memories` presented by visitors to the National Library of Scotland summer exhibition, 2005, "Scotland`s Secret War: Hidden Stiries of World War II".
Illustrated letter of James Sant.
Describing a visit to Scotland and his painting activities.