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‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
File
Identifier: MS.9808
Scope and Contents
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Dates:
1832-1834.
Wodrow manuscripts, with biographies of ministers, "Wodrow`s Collections".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4277- is now Wodrow Folios XXV-XXVI, XXVIII-XXXI.
Dates:
Undated
Women, education and literature: the papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, part 3, reels 1-4 (Adam Matthew, 2001).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1205-1208
Dates:
1793-1st half of 19th century.
Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4546
Scope and Contents
Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.
Dates:
circa 1900-circa 1914.
Word processed manuscript, 'James Thin booksellers, 1826 to 2002', by Ainslie Thin.
File
Identifier: Acc.14140
Dates:
2019.
Words and music for a song "Lovely Loch Awe" of Thomas A Ewart, Oban.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11925
Dates:
1st half of 20th century
Words and music of lyrics and comic operas by Archibald F Hyslop.
File
Identifier: Acc.9543
Scope and Contents
Many composed for the singer and comedian Harry Gordon, with correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1935-1960.
Work-book of John Shirley, Solicitor, containing his fair copy, written out in full, of his ‘History of Scottish Law’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.4
Dates:
1898, or after.
Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.14
Scope and Contents
Although the author details the circumstances in which he began, lost, rewrote and revised his criticisms and had them bound, a period ranging from 1643 to 1679, his name nowhere appears; but he has been identified as the soldier and author Sir James Turner.The criticisms are followed (folio 64) by two satirical writings by Turner purporting to be a letter of Don Francesco Gomez de Quevedo Villegas with the impossible date of 1506, and a letter, 1582, of ‘Philander of Sitwald’....
Dates:
1643-1679.
Work in three volumes by Richard Augustine Hay on the ecclesiastical (Adv.MS.34.1.8) and secular (Adv.MSS.34.1.9(i)-34.1.9(ii)) antiquities of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.1.8-34.1.9
Scope and Contents
The work is in the same hand as, and was begun probably as the consequence to, Hay’s ‘Diplomatum veterum collectio` (Adv.MS.34.1.10) in 1700 (the date quoted on each title page) and completed in 1707 or later (Adv.MS.34.1.9(ii), folio 62).
Dates:
1700-1707, or after.
Work on the Curia of the Church of Rome written in Italian.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9944
Dates:
mid 18th century.
Work schedules and recipes for the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh kitchens.
File
Identifier: Acc.9123
Dates:
1943.
Workbook of J J Foster.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3461
Scope and Contents
Used in the writing of "The Stuarts".
Dates:
circa 1880-circa 1920.
Working and fair manuscript copies of various opera (for piano, string quartets, clarinet quintet et al.) of Robert Crawford.
File
Identifier: Acc.12550
Dates:
circa 1947-2004.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Dates:
19th century.
Working drafts of two short stories of Norman M Macdonald, "Potatoes and Herring" and "The First Day of the Season".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6405- is now MS.14972, ff 125-156.
Dates:
Undated.
Working notes by Alexander Philip, the author of several books on the calendar.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10307-10308
Dates:
1887-1929, undated.
Working papers for the memoirs of Colin Simson Cadell, including audio cassettes and computer disks.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13280
Dates:
1996-1997.
Working papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, including samples of fired ceramics; with papers relating to her published works and thesis.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12879/1-97
Scope and Contents
Recipes, tests, firing schedules, samples, sketches, and other papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, her masters' thesis, and her book, 'Working with lustres'.
Dates:
1963-2005, undated.
Working papers relating to the doctoral thesis of Professor Edward Frederick Denis Roberts; with some official, personal and semi-personal papers dating from his childhood until his death.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11997/1-58
Scope and Contents
The doctoral research notes and other working papers of Professor Edward Frederick Denis Roberts. They include typescript transcriptions, early 1950s, of the registers of the later mediaeval archbishops of Armagh (1361-1543), prepared by Roberts and William George Henry Quigley for their joint doctoral thesis presented to the Queen's University, Belfast, 1955, with typescript copy of the same.The collection also includes research and editorial notes, galley proofs and related...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Circa 1932-1993, undated.