Fair copies.
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph scores of musical compositions by David Stephen, Director of Music to the Carnegie Trust, Dunfermline.
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Autograph scores of original compositions and arrangements of William Bowie, organist and music teacher at the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier-General) James George Smith Neill of Barnweill and Swindrigemuir whilst second in command (with the local rank of Brigadier-General) of the Anglo-Turkish force, called the Turkish contingent, in the Crimean War, covering the period from 2 September 1855 to 30 September 1856.
Judging from a number of small gaps, usually of a word or two, in the text, it would appear to be a fair copy made shortly afterwards (the paper is watermarked 1853), either from rough notes, or more probably, as folios 89-96 are stitched in, from the original.
Drafts and fair copies of settings of ten songs by Francis George Scott.
Five of the settings are of poems of Robert Burns (folios 1-27).
'Essay on the application of steam to the purposes of navigation'; a fair copy by James Rennie of his prize essay.
In an introductory note (folio ii verso), James Rennie states that he could not transcribe ‘several important particulars, which he has in the Scroll Copy'.
Fair copies by Frances A M Russell, of her own poems.
Many of the poems refer to Frances Russell’s own family and events at Minto.
The poems are followed (folio 83) by a description of Russell’s last hours.
Fair copy of the text printed as ‘Memoirs of the secret services of John Macky’, without the introduction.
Final, or fair copies of musical compositions, 1958-1967, by Martin Dalby, many in his autograph, arranged in chronological order.
The compositions are preceded (MS.22142, folio ii) by a typescript list of Martin Dalby's compositions to 1968 with additions in ink to 1969.
Most of the compositions are vocal, being settings of poems or scriptural texts, with or without keyboard accompaniment.
Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny.
Journals of a voyage to Iceland in the ‘John’ of Leith, 23 May-3 November 1789, under the leadership of John Thomas Stanley, later 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley.
Both journals include observations on weather, with land and sea temperatures during the voyage, and descriptions of the inhabitants, scenery, products, flora, minerals and volcanic phenomena of Iceland, and of such of the Orkney and Faroe islands as were visited.
Manuscript containing Gaelic poetry of Iain MacDhùghaill (John MacDougall), Ardgour, headed 'Orain Gha'elach maille ri aireamh bheag do dhuain coluinn le Iain Mac Dhughaill ann an Ionarsannda Airdghobhar'.
Microfilm of assorted 13th-17th century manuscripts.
Microfilm of fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, an account of the castes in Malabar by Alexander Walker; and, Memorandums, [circa 1800], of Alexander Walker concerning Malabar.
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume I by Alexander Walker (MS.13810);
Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume II by Alexander Walker (MS.13811);
Memorandum, [circa 1800[, of Alexander Walker on the 'origin of money in Malabar' (MS.13825);
Memoranda, 1801, of Alexander Walker on land tenures and on the state of slavery in Malabar (MS.13826).
Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);
Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);
Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).
Microfilm of travel journals of Francis, Lord Jeffrey; and poetry of Margaret Loudoun.
Travel journal, 1813, of Francis Jeffreys in the United States (Acc.11099/1-2);
Journal, September 1800, of a pedestrian tour in Scotland by Francis Jeffrey (MS.23223);
Diary, July-September 1823, of a journey from London to Venice and back by Francis Jeffrey travelling with Henry Cockburn and others (MS.23224);
Volume containing fair copies of poems, 1803-1809, in the hand of Margaret Loudoun (MS.23226).
Microfilms of fair copies of ‘History of Malabar’ and other works concerning Malabar, by Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Music of Robert Crawford for string quartet.
'Occasional verses; Edinburgh, October 1820’.
Fair copies of poems written from 1815 to 1820, presented by the author to an unnamed lady.