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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 232 Collections and/or Records:

Letter, 1980, of Robert Garioch to John Milligan.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10354
Scope and Contents

With Milligan`s reply and transcript, an Empire Theatre poster on the same topic, and donation letter, 1991.

Dates: 1980-1991.

Letter of Edwin Muir to A J McGeoch.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4764
Scope and Contents

With transcript.

Dates: 1945.

Letter of Gordon Bottomley to Alexander Gray.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12767
Scope and Contents

Includes vendor`s transcript and notes.

Dates: 1942.

Letter of Joyce Cary to Ruari McLean.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11559
Scope and Contents

Concerns the morality of fighting evil.

Includes transcript of the letter by McLean and signatures of Cary, intended for reproduction in a book.

Dates: 1939.

Letters, 1916-1918 and undated, of Cecile Walton to Eric Robertson, and a letter, 1929, of Dorothy Ratcliffe.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11858
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, 1917-1942 and undated, of various correspondents and a transcription of the diary, 1907, of Eric Robertson.

Dates: 1907-1942 and undated.

Letters and papers of Sir John Hope, 11th Bart., of Craighall and Pinkie.

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Identifier: Acc.13030
Scope and Contents

Letters largely addressed to Auguste Duvau and E´douard Mounier; with letters from Hugh Hope and other members of the Hope family to European contacts; with an agricultural journal, 1825-1827 and a typescript transcription of another 1807 journal.

Dates: 1801-1844.

Letters, and typed transcripts of letters, of Mountstuart Elphinstone, mostly to William Erskine, the historian of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.5.15-28.5.16
Scope and Contents

The letters concern Indian, Turki and Persian literature, philology and geography, with special reference to Erskine`s translation of Bābar`s Memoirs, and Elphinstone`s ‘Account of the Kingdom of Cabul’. There are very few references to current events, but a small number of letters to Elphinstone are included (Adv.MS.28.5.15, folio 183) which concern the administration of justice in India.

Dates: 1811-1834.

Letters of members of the Walker family of Dundonald, Ayrshire.

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Identifier: Acc.12085
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from relations in America and one reporting on anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh 1779, also includes a 19th century transcript (and 20th century typescript copy) of a journal of Josiah Walker, originally written in 1780.

Dates: circa 1772-1783.

Literary papers, broadcast texts and press cuttings of Robert (Bob) Crampsey.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12980
Scope and Contents

With some manuscripts and papers by Alexia F McAlpine and Anne Valentine.

Dates: circa 1948-1998.

Manuscript and typescript copies of poems of Gerald Wooley Watson.

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Identifier: Acc.10579
Scope and Contents

With notes by the author.

Dates: 1953-1965 and undated.

Manuscript of, and additional material relating to, ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson [of Kinmundy, Sheriff of Forfarshire], Scottish History Society, 1st Series, Volumes 32 (1899), 35 (1899) and 38 (1901).

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.27
Scope and Contents 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: 1698-1901.

Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.15
Scope and Contents The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) `Spagyricae seu Jatrochymicae Synopsios Cursus ... illustratus a doctissimo viro domino Rheo`, July 1631. Notes of lectures on chemistry given by Rhee [?Rae], a Scot teaching in Paris. (Folio 1.)(ii) `De primis Naturae principiis`. (Folio 39.)(iii) Extracts from ‘De gradibus et compositionibus receptorum et naturalium’ by Paracelsus. (Folio 45.)(iv) Prescriptions in Latin. (Folio 51.)...
Dates: 1631-1635.

Memoir of George Romanes in the form of a letter to his son Professor George Romanes.

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Identifier: Acc.12749
Scope and Contents

Memoir covers some Romanes family history, George Romanes` early life in Edinburgh, his early work as a civil engineer in Egypt and Calgary and war service with the Royal Engineers from 1917-1919. Includes transcript.

Dates: 1957.

Minutes of the Glasgow Committee of the London Missionary Society.

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Identifier: Acc.12590
Scope and Contents

Inlcudes modern transcript.

Dates: 1796-1833.

Miscellaneous charters.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.A.1-46