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Journal of Margaret Ramsay, describing her family life in Edinburgh, and as a school-teacher at Fochabers and Whithorn. The contents are largely personal, but mention is made of some current events.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.6.6-22.6.10
Scope and Contents
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
1825-1840.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay; volume 4., 1825-1826.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
1825-1826.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay; volume 5., 1827-1828.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
1827-1828.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay; volume 6., 1829-April 1832.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
1829-April 1832.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay; volume 7., May 1832-June 1834.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
May 1832-June 1834.
Journal of Margaret Ramsay; volume 9., July 1836-August 1840.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The journal is partly in shorthand, but there is a summary at the end of each year except 1834 and 1840. The writer also made a yearly list of the births, marriages and deaths of her friends, and of the sermons she had heard.A copy of an article on the journal by Sir James Balfour Paul in ‘Chambers`s Journal’, 7th series, xi (1921), pages 221-224, together with his letter presenting the volumes to the Advocates` Library, is inserted in Adv.MS.22.6.6. (folios i-iii). A...
Dates:
July 1836-August 1840.
Letter book, 1775-1787, of the Reverend Andrew Ross.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7740
Scope and Contents
Containing correspondence and copies of documents concerning his attempt in 1775 to abjure his subscription of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
With a memorandum, 1885, of Andrew Ross, and a shorthand treatise, "An Esssay on the Being and Attributes of God".
Dates:
1775-1787, 1885.
Manuscript shorthand transcription of Isaac Watts, "Horae Lyricae".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7081
Dates:
1818.
Notebook of Richard Fursman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3924
Scope and Contents
Containing a system of shorthand, notes on Hebrew grammar and four sermons.
Dates:
1658-1662.
Notebook ruled for cash, which was used for legal notes, elementary French exercises and as a commonplace book (folios 2-12, 1-34 verso inverted). The entries, the latest of which is dated 1739, are written mostly in Byrom`s system of shorthand, which was not published until 1767.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.6.4
Scope and Contents
The owner, who remains unidentified, was a young man, probably of wealthy family, studying law, possibly at one of the Inns of Court in London. Pages have been torn out after folios 11, 12 and 13 inverted; folios 30-34 are written sideways. The volume, which was received without the original covers, was unintentionally rebound upside-down, and incorrectly labelled on the spine ‘French Commonplace Book’.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Sermons, 1701-1752, of Ebenezer Erskine.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5886
Scope and Contents
Most of the sermons are in shorthand.
With sermons, 1765-1770, probably of Ebenezer Erskine`s nephew, James.
Dates:
1701-1770.
Sermons and lectures, mostly in shorthand, of Fife ministers.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4687
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Two notebooks containing texts of sermons and shorthand sermons of the Lawson family, secession ministers at Selkirk.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.5207
Dates:
1783-1795, 1810.
Volume of notes taken down by a student at Glasgow University from lectures on the civil law delivered by John Millar of Milheugh, Professor of Civil Law from 1761 to 1801.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.8
Scope and Contents
The lectures, delivered in two courses between November 1777 and May 1778, appear to be those on the ‘Institutes’ of Justinian given by Millar to students in the first year of their legal studies. The first course, in 73 lectures (folios 1-88), gave an overview of the text, while the second, in 46 lectures, February-May 1777 (folios 89-292), studied the ‘Institutes’ in more detail.
The notes are in longhand, but with a few shorthand additions.
Dates:
1777-1778.