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War diary of Lance-Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
File
Identifier: Acc.377- is now MSS.944-947.
Dates:
1915-1916.
War diary of Lance Corporal George Ramage, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, on the Western Front.
Series
Identifier: MSS.944-947
Dates:
1915-1916.
War diary of Major Alastair I Macdougall.
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Identifier: Acc.10430
Scope and Contents
Records Macdougall`s service on the Western Front with the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, later on the General Staff of the 21st Division.
Dates:
1914-1918.
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13336
Scope and Contents
War time service experiences in 202 Field Company Royal Engineers, 1939-1947. Memoirs, dictated February 2012, of Lieutenant Colonel Brian D. Mackenzie, describing his service with 202 Field Company, Royal Engineers, during the Second World War. Originally a Manchester Territorial Army Unit, 202 Field Company changed in June 1940 to 52nd (Lowland) Division. Mackenzie joined the company in 1943, whilst it was based in Scotland training for mountain warfare, a role which it was never to...
Dates:
1939-1968.
"War Work", a collection of manuscript poems of Gavin Ewart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10527
Dates:
1939-1942.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
Item
Identifier: MS.3658
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Dates:
1666-1699.
"Warnings of the Camisars" being copies of sermons preached by Thomas Dutton, James Cuninghame of Barns, and other Quietists, in Edinburgh and elsewhere.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8592
Dates:
1707-1711.
Warrant, 1641, to Sir David Cunningham (possibly 1st Baronet, of Auchinhervie), signed by the 1st Duke of Hamilton and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.8958
Scope and Contents
With:
two letters, 1653, of Robert Lilburne
four letters, 1659, of General George Monck.
Dates:
1641-1659.
Warrant appointing George Handasyde Pattison as Sheriff of Roxburgh and Selkirk.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6115
Dates:
1868.
Warrant by Barbara Porterfield, daughter of the late Walter Porterfield of Comiston, Advocate, to Patrick Scott, Writer in Edinburgh, to receive the 35/- Sterling granted her by the Faculty of Advocates.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.232
Dates:
1728.
Warrant for collecting of Salt Tax in favour of Robert Anderson
Item
Identifier: Acc.13343
Dates:
1791
Warrant of commitment, concerning Grange Coal Company.
Item
Identifier: Acc.1876- is now MS.7651(iii).
Dates:
1796.
Warrant, signed by Queen Victoria.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5922
Scope and Contents
Granting Civil List pension to James Browne.
Dates:
1840.
Warrant, subscribed by George IV [sic] in favour of George Home and Walter Scott as Principal Clerk of Session.
Item
Identifier: Acc.112- is now Ch.60.
Dates:
8 February 1806.
Warrant subscribed by the Duke of Rothes, the Marquess of Atholl, the Earl of Argyll, and the Earl of Queensberry to Sir William Sharp, cash-keeper, to pay to Captain John Gray £10 Sterling as his pension.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.226
Dates:
1681.
Warrant subscribed by the Marquess of Atholl, the Earl of Strathmore, the Earl of Queensberry and Charles Maitland (later Earl of Lauderdale) to pay Captain John Gray £10 sterling as a pension.
Item
Identifier: Ch.A.227
Dates:
1681.
Warrant summoning James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, to attend the trials for High Treason of Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie and Balmerino.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11958
Dates:
1746.
Wartime log of Flight Sergeant Charles D Paterson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13215
Scope and Contents
Wartime logbook, 1938-1942, of Flight Sergeant Charles D. Paterson, recording his experiences during the Second World War. The contents list at the beginning of the volume suggests that Paterson was a POW in first Italy then in Germany, although the description of his experiences is incomplete and ends before his capture. In one of the chapters, Paterson notes that he has been a prisoner of war for almost 3 years. In addition to Paterson`s description of his flight...
Dates:
1938-1942.
Water-colour paintings by William Gibb, the originals of the illustrations to ‘The Royal House of Stuart’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3246-3247
Scope and Contents
Most of the paintings are undated, but the dates 1888 and 1889 are found on a few.
Dates:
1888-1889, undated.
Watercolour by Karl-Erik Forsberg, symbolising the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9187
Dates:
1986.
Watercolour by the Rev William Paget of the ruins of Edinburgh after the 1824 fire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12414
Dates:
1824.
Watercolour, depicting the Dean farm.
Item
Identifier: Acc.2886- is now MS.20345, f.28.
Dates:
circa 1770.
Watercolour of Reverend Matthew Gardiner of Bothwell possibly by John Gibson Lockhart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14339
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.