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11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken
With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.
12 letters to William R Aitken from Helen B Cruickshank (nine), Cedric Thorpe Davie (one) and David Murison (two) on literary matters.
Includes copies of six letters of Aitken.
13 letters to Robert Bruce.
Concerning political and personal matters. Correspondents include Sir Alexander Gray and Sir Stafford Cripps.
With associated testimonials and copies of four letters of Bruce.
15 letters of David Livingstone to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, with three enclosures to the editor of `The Times`, and various envelopes, copies and other items.
17 letters of Neil Gunn to Naomi Mitchison.
Copy of letter, 1944, of Naomi Mitchison to Neil Gunn, and one other letter, undated, of Mitchison to an unknown recipient.
20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.
Includes:
copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson
copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray
correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.
31 letters, 1822-1836, of Sir David Wilkie to Sir James Willoughby Gordon.
Mostly on artistic matters.
With copies of three letters, 1828-1839, of Gordon to Wilkie, and an associated memorandum.
39 letters of Gavin Ewart to Philip Larkin.
On literary and personal matters. With a copy of letter, 1976, of Larkin to Ewart.
40 letters or copies of letters to, or concerning, Sir James Young Simpson and his family.
With copies of three letters, 1866, of Sir James Young Simpson to Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff.
60 letters to Robert H Lundie and his family.
With copy of letter, 1809, of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, enclosing a letter of James Thomson.
73 letters to George Bruce from various correspondents, and copies of 18 letters of Bruce.
On literary matters.
95 letters of André Raffalovich to Charles Ballantyne.
With ten copies of letters, 24 postcards, and two telegrams. Also two letters and a card concerning Raffalovich.
129 letters of C M Grieve to Duncan Glen, on literary matters, and copies of related letters of Glen.
130 Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to James F Hendry.
Includes related copy letters of Hendry.
A copy of Alexander Monro's 'Essay on female conduct' (MS.6658), incorporating the corrections and containing most of the additional material, made by Margaret Monro, in accordance with her father's intentions.
`A Perfect Inventor of all the Pious Donations Given to the Kirks and Hospitals in Scotland since the days of K. Iames 1 To the Regne of King Iames the vi. With Additions. Edenburgh Writen 12 novr i702 by R:M:` (i.e. Robert Mylne).
`A perfyte inventar of all the pious donations gevin to kirks and hospitalls since the dayes of king James the first to the reigne of king James the sixt`.
"A Skylight on the Past", copy of a typescript of letters and memoranda of the families of Pemberton in County Durham and Wallace in Nairn, compiled by Nisa Laing.
Contains material concerning India and the First World War.
About 3400 letters and copies of letters of Angus Calder.
Letters concern literary, academic and personal matters.
Account of the Scots Benedictine abbey at Ratisbon, copied apparently in 1684 for the abbot, Placid Fleming, by Andrew Cook, one of the monks.
The text is an excerpt from ‘Ratisbona religiosa’, the fourth (and largest) volume of ‘Ratisbona dioecesis illustrata’, a work in 7 volumes on the diocese of Ratisbon, written about 1660 by its chancellor, Eberhard Wassenberg. The work, which is little more than a catena of excerpts mostly from printed sources, was never published.
Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
‘Act of the Associate Presbytery for Renewing the National Covenant’ (Edinburgh, 1748), bound with blank pages for subscriptions, issued to the Congregation at Muckhart.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.
African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.
Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.