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Autograph sermon on 1 Peter iii. 15 by the Reverend Sydney Smith, Canon of St Paul`s; with explanatory letter of the donor, 1919.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.17
Dates:
Circa 1831-1840.
Books of sermons of Andrew Moir and the Lawson family, secession ministers at Selkirk.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5115/1-157
Scope and Contents
This accession relates to the Secession Ministry at Selkirk of various members of the
Lawson family, 1726-1898. Two brothers, George and Andrew Lawson both became
Secession Ministers at Selkirk. Andrew Lawson's son John was later occupied the same
position. Most of the material here relates to the sermons preached by the Lawson
family. Included are books of sermons of Andrew Moir, minister of Associate Synod in Selkirk, 1758-1770; books of sermons of George Lawson (d. 1820),...
Dates:
1752-1849, undated.
Business records, 1869-1892, of Walter Duncan, tea merchant in India, with his school copybook, 1846, printed sermon, 1900, from his funeral oration, with typescript and manuscript notes concerning his life.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13232
Scope and Contents
Walter Duncan (1834 – 1900) began his career in the office of a Glasgow firm of merchants, Messrs. Playfair, Bryce and Co., possibly in 1855 or early 1856. After a short spell in Demerara working for Playfair, Allan and Co., a merchant company run by Patrick Playfair but not connected in a business way with Playfair, Bryce and Co., he returned to Glasgow in 1858. At this point Patrick Playfair offered him a prospective partnership to establish a business in Kolkata, India, under the name...
Dates:
1846-1900.
Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3591
Scope and Contents
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Collection of sermons in three parts, each written by a different 17th century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.10
Scope and Contents
(i) Sermons, circa 1650, by various ministers, the majority from the Presbytery of St. Andrews. A list of the preachers and their texts precedes, (Folios 2-260).
(ii) Sermons and extracts from theological books. (Folios 261-322).
(iii) Sermons, many of which are headed `At Torphichen`, with the time taken in delivering them; possibly by George Wilson, Minister of Torphichen, 1663-1681. (Folios 323-383).
Dates:
17th century.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.19
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is apparently in the hand of John Elphinston: see Adv.MS.32.3.9, folio 78 verso. Several items in Adv.MS.32.3.9 are also in this hand.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Autobiography of John Livingstone, minister of Ancrum. It has been published from the version in Wod.Qu.XVIII in ‘Select Biographies’, i, pages 129-197. This manuscript has a few variants from the published version. (Folio 1.)(ii) `An Account of what past when...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-early 18th century.
Copy of sermons of Thomas Boston, the Elder, later published in "An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion" (1773).
File
Identifier: Acc.10880
Scope and Contents
Concern the Ten Commandments. With unpublished material criticising the English Service Book and Roman Catholicism.
Dates:
circa 1720.
Corrected manuscript of George MacDonald, "Unspoken Sermons" (First Series, 1867).
Item
Identifier: Acc.6270
Dates:
1867.
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.171
Dates:
1858-1940, and undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian, Lady Adam Smith, née Buchanan, and other members of the Adam Smith and Buchanan families.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.311- is now Acc.9446.
Dates:
1859-1949.
Correspondence and papers of the Reverend Andrew Lothian and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7617/1-100
Dates:
1637-1909, undated.
Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1597-1823.
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.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3334/1-50
Scope and Contents
Includes student lecture-notes, journals and sermons.
Dates:
?1843-1903, undated.
Diary, sermons and notes of a minister in British Guiana.
File
Identifier: Acc.9274
Dates:
1840-1841 and undated.
"Diverse preciouse sermons upon... Scripture" by James Broun, David Broun, John Anderson, Alexander Hastay and James Stirling. Copied by William Bogle.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12566
Dates:
circa 1695.
Donald MacCalman, sermon given in Edinburgh, 1821.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13766
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1821
Elegiac verses and funeral sermons on Jean Smith, by her husband the Reverend John Bonar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7614
Scope and Contents
With decorative penwork.
Dates:
1737.
Letter and two note-books of the Reverend Ralph Erskine.
Series
Identifier: MSS.91-93
Dates:
1709-1741.
Manuscripts from the library of St Andrew`s College, Drygrange.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9180
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Miscellaneous material, mostly of a religious nature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `A Testamentary Memoir written by Theophilus, in which his own dearest concerns are Ingenuously Narrated, and sundry of a more publick Nature are also touched, all Addressed to his surviving friends`, early 18th century. This is similar in style to the ‘Memorial` of James Hog, and the hand is probably the same as that of Adv.MS.32.3.8. The author appears to have written other memorials and a short history of the Covenanters based...
Dates:
18th century.
Notebook of Giles Macadam containing notes of sermons by Ralph Wardlaw and others.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3335
Dates:
1832-1834.