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3 letters to George Chalmers (from Joseph Ritson, Alexander Luders, and Christoph Friedrich Freudenreich) concerning the Bern manuscript of English and Scots laws, together with a calendar of the burgh laws and leges Scotie contained in it and a transcript of the memorandum on folio 61 verso.
20 letters of William Lockhart to George Lockhart.
With transcripts, 20th century.
25 letters of Roderick Watson Kerr to George M Thomson.
Concerning the Porpoise Press.
With typescript copies annotated by Thomson.
`A Description of the Islands belonging to the Crowne of Scotland taken from severall manuscripts, and the relations of thos that lived in them or frequented them`, written probably circa 1700.
The volume begins with a brief general account of Scottish islands followed by detailed descriptions of the Western isles.
The fullest descriptions are of Mull, Iona, Harris and Lewis, Islay, Skye, Uist and in particular, St. Kilda (folios 21 verso, 26 verso, 27 verso).
Towards the end of the volume are transcripts of ‘Genealogies of the Chief Clans of the Isles’ (folio 34 verso) and `Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum (folio 35).
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Antiquarian collections of W T Johnston.
Includes transcripts of letters and papers of eminent Scotsmen and other material relating to them. Files organised by subject.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Approximately 120 letters of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, with related correspondence and transcripts of seventy further Scott-Constable letters.
Autobiographical notes, transcribed diary and anecdote of James Wardrop.
With diary, 1841-1861, of his daughter, Shirley.
Autograph manuscripts and typescripts of James Ramsay MacDonald entitled "Parliament and Revolution" and "India: Imprsessions and Opinions".
Autograph manuscripts, with an incomplete transcript, of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh.
For each manuscript is given the chapter(s), with title(s) contained in it, and, in brackets, reference to volume and page of the Stair Society edition of the lectures.
Autograph transcripts of 15 of Hugh MacDiarmid`s poems.
Includes letter of MacDiarmid to W Gordon Smith concerning a recording of the poems.
Calligraphic transcript, 7 August 1782, by John McOmie of the copy made by James Scott, minister of East church, Perth, of the charter granted 14 April 1498 to the Carthusian monastery, Perth, by James Stewart, Earl of Buchan (created 1469), of his garden or orchard without the Spey (folio 4).
The main transcript is preceded by transcripts by McOmie of Scott`s account of the circumstances of the donation (folio 1) and Scott`s presentation note, 19 July 1782, to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767) (folio ii).
Cartularies of the Sligo family of Inzievar and Carmyle
Collection of papers of the Warden family.
The collection comprises correspondence of the Warden family, with transcripts of most of the correspondence, a travel journal written by Alexander Warden and a publication, 'Letters from St. Helena' (1816), by William Warden.
Collection of quarto volumes of transcripts by and for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, 1st quarter of 19th century, of several of the surviving cartularies and other registers, and of some collections of charters and other deeds, of the medieval dioceses, churches and religious houses of Scotland, 1164-1639.
Composite volume consisting of two unrelated and formerly separate collections of transcripts made probably at the same time as each other by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Composite volume made up in or about 1819 (the date of the watermark of the binder`s blanks) from five folio notebooks of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Copy of a transcript of a BBC radio programme marking the centenary of the birth of John Buchan.
Copy of "Brian O`Duff`s Lament - Tumilin O`Counichan", an Irish pibroch, transcribed by Alistair Campsie.
Copy of "Life and Correspondence of David Hume" (1846) of John Hill Burton.
Includes an letter of David Hume, 1773, and interleaves bearing transcripts of 16 letters of Hume to his brother John and John`s son Joseph (`Josey`), transcribed by John Turnbull, WS, circa 1872.
Copy of "The Endurance Diary of Harry McNeish", carpenter with Ernest Shackleton`s 1914-1916 Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition.
Transcribed by Shane Murphy from a microfilm in the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Includes copy of "The Diary of Thomas H Orde-Lees`s Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition, 1914-1916" being notes made by Margot Murrell, 1997.
Corrected transcript of a BBC radio programme by Ian McIntyre, "Flowers of the Forest".
Corrected typescript, 1974, of Naomi Mitchison, "Oil for the Highlands".
With a notebook, undated, entitled "Oil".