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Partial transcript of the lectures delivered by David Hume as Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh in the hand of the donor, Lord Kingsburgh; Part V, Chapter XIV `Personal Diligence` (folio 1); Chapter XV `Meditatio Fugae: Liberation` (folio 21); Chapter XVI `Cessio Bonorum` (folio 78) (Volume VI, pages 120-157)., 1786-1822.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.6.41
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

It appears that the task of transcription was tackled chapter by chapter and was never finished, as the chapter on Insurance was left incomplete; but in the other cases of incomplete chapters (`Voluntary Servants` and `Extinction by Compensation and Retention`), some pages seem to have been lost. The introductory chapter is known only from this transcript. Part II, Chapter XIV is placed after Chapter XVI.

Dates: 1786-1822.

`Petitions letters etc. to the Council of State 1745-7.`, 1745-1747.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates: 1745-1747.

`Petitions to the Council of State 1738-45` (folio 1); `Resolutions of States of Holland project of sending troops to America 1775-6` (folio 43)., 1738-1745, 1775-1776.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.3.18
Scope and Contents From the Collection: It was originally Ferguson`s intention to print Dutch text and English translation of all Dutch documents quoted, but this scheme had to be abandoned for reasons of space, and only the English translations were ultimately printed (Volume I, page xxxiii). Before this change of plan, the Dutch texts had been inserted into the appropriate places of the manuscript of Volume I and part of Volume II; the rest are preserved separately, Adv.MSS.81.3.15-81.3.23.Summaries and extracts of...
Dates: 1738-1745, 1775-1776.

Photocopies and transcripts of two letters of Charles McIntosh to Beatrix Potter.

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Identifier: Acc.11464
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Letters concern fungi.

Dates: 1894 and undated.

Photocopies, late 20th century, of papers, 1931-1991, concerning the correspondence of Thomas Warton., 1931-late 20th century.

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Identifier: MS.42584
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates: 1931-late 20th century.

Photocopies of transcripts, 1849-1894, of "Mundell Family Extracts from Loch Broom and Ullapool Parish Kirk Session Records"

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Identifier: Acc.10874
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With copies of related letters, 1975, of James R Matheson.

Dates: 1849-1894 and 1975.

Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Sir William Gordon to his sister.

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Identifier: Acc.8919
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Concerning the Crimea and India.

Dates: circa 1850-1865.

Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Violet Emily Cragg to her mother.

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Identifier: Acc.9555
Scope and Contents

Written while in Nigeria.

Dates: 1924-1930.

Recipes, medical and other., 15th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11G, folios 66-92
Scope and Contents The recipes on folios 71 verso and 72 verso are attributed to Mr William of Bristowe. On folio 90 verso is one for dyeing silk. On folio 92 is a description of a choleric man.On folio 66 is the first stanza of `A Dietary` by John Lydgate (‘The Minor Poems of John Lydgate’, volume ii, page 702). On folio 89 verso is an extract, headed `De spermate hominis’, from the South English Legendary, St Michael (‘The Early South English Legendary’, pages 319-320, 11.702-11.729; ‘The South...
Dates: 15th century.