Manuscripts.
Found in 6597 Collections and/or Records:
Waterston family papers., 1759-1992, undated.
'Wicketshaw’, being a modern account of the estate (parish of Carluke) and of its Lockhart owners., 19th century.
Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.
Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.
Word processed manuscript, 'James Thin booksellers, 1826 to 2002', by Ainslie Thin.
Work-book of John Shirley, Solicitor, containing his fair copy, written out in full, of his ‘History of Scottish Law’.
Work by other authors collected by Hector MacIver., 1921-1954, undated.
Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.
Work by other writers collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1939-1980, undated.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Work by others collected by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1936-1985, undated.
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.
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.
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.
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).
Work on digestion, incipit 'Premissis quibusdam que certa corpus humanum'., 13th century.
Initials are alternately blue and red.
At the end are added a note from Henry of Huntingdon, book 6, and a list (incomplete) of battles between the English (`nos`) and Scots from 1307 to 1385 (late 14th century, folio 31 verso).
Work on natural philosophy and an astrological text., 1376-15th century.
Working autograph of ‘Rob Roy’ by Sir Walter Scott, with some associated papers., 1817.
Working notes by Alexander Philip, the author of several books on the calendar.
Working notes of Ian Rankin for Rebus short story ideas. , Circa 1990-1994, undated.
Includes manuscript and typescript notes of Ian Rankin, some originating from others, for short story ideas involving his character Inspector Rebus.
Notes are arranged by date, where available, and otherwise left in original order from accession.
Folios 1-56.
Works of George Reith intended for publication., [?1885-?1941.]
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
‘Works of Henry Mackenzie’ (Edinburgh, 1808), volume viii, containing autograph additions.
Works of James Ramsay, volume I: 'Language Literature Biography'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Works of James Ramsay, volume II: 'Language Literature Biography'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Works of James Ramsay, volume III: 'Language Literature Biography'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Works of James Ramsay, volume IV: 'Religion its Progress'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Works of James Ramsay, volume IX: 'Prospects of Private Life'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
A modern letter concerning the battle of Aboukir Bay has been inserted at folio 293.
Works of James Ramsay, volume V: 'Religion its Progress'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.
Works of James Ramsay, volume VI: 'Government Clanship Law'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
The works are for the most part descriptive of the eighteenth century in Scotland, and are contained in 10 folio volumes, each bearing the title assigned to it by John Ramsay, showing his grouping and division of his manuscript. Subjects treated in one volume, however, are apt to occur again in others.