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Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian, Lady Adam Smith, née Buchanan, and other members of the Adam Smith and Buchanan families.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend Andrew Lothian and his family.
Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.
Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).
Diaries and notebooks of William Blair, minister of Dunblane United Presbyterian Church; with two volumes formerly belonging to John Bisset, minister of Nairn United Presbyterian Church.
Includes student lecture-notes, journals and sermons.
Diary, sermons and notes of a minister in British Guiana.
"Diverse preciouse sermons upon... Scripture" by James Broun, David Broun, John Anderson, Alexander Hastay and James Stirling. Copied by William Bogle.
Donald MacCalman, sermon given in Edinburgh, 1821.
A sermon on Luke 15: 1-10. Signed "Don: M,Calman". On verso of final leaf: "Edin[burgh] 19th March 1821 - Delivered this day. - D.M.C.
Elegiac verses and funeral sermons on Jean Smith, by her husband the Reverend John Bonar.
With decorative penwork.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
"Heads and Notes of Certain Sermons and Discourses from Diverse Texts of Scripture; by Mr. Thomas Hog, Minister of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ at Killtearn in the Shire of Ross. Transcribed from the Original Coppy of the Author, which was lent me for that purpose by Mrs. Maire Relict of the deceas'd Mr. George Maire Minister of Cullross" (died 1716).
Lectures and sermons by ministers of the Church of Scotland; with a list of contents and a transcript of one of the sermons, in a modern hand.
Letter and two note-books of the Reverend Ralph Erskine.
Letters and papers formerly in the possession of the Reverend John Stirton.
Manuscript book, containing psalm-tunes, philosophical notes, notes of sermons, etc.
The manuscript book is inscribed on the fly-leaf 'Rogerus Kirkpatrick...1697, 1698', and contains some entries of later date.