Printed materials. Object genre.

The contents are as follows.

(i) John Morris, 'British Fossils, stratigraphically arranged' (printed) (folio 1), with a manuscript note by Leonard Horner, 18S9 (folio 4 verso).

(ii) 'Journal which I kept of our journey from London to Florence and our stay there, from 17 Sepr 1861 to May 1862', by Leonard Horner. Extracts are given by Mary Lyell in her ‘Memoir of Leonard Horner’ ([privately printed], London, 1890), volume ii, pages 307, and what follows. (Folio 5.)

Dates: 1859, 1862.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.

Printed ‘Instructions for the Conduct of the Ships of War, explanatory of, and relative to the signals contained in the Signal-book herewith delivered’, given and signed by Rear-Admiral George Vandeput, with manuscript additions., 1796.

Item

Identifier: MS.2443

Dates: 1796.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath. / Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.

Printed ‘Instructions to be observed by the Persons appointed to take care of the Rebel Prisoners, etc., in Great Britain’., 1745.

Item

Identifier: MS.287

Scope and Contents

Included are the signatures of Charles Allen and T Cayley, Commissioners for taking care of sick and wounded seamen and for exchanging prisoners of war, and specimen schedules for prisoner returns, as in MS.288.

This copy was used by George Fraser, Auditor of Excise, who had charge of the payment of the prisoners in Scotland.

Dates: 1745.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts collected by Walter Biggar Blaikie, Doctor of Laws, editor of volumes concerning Jacobitism in the publications of the Scottish History Society, etc. / Material concerning the prisoners of the 'Forty-five.

Printed item, undated, entitled "Circuit Court, Middle Circuit, Florida. John Leslie's Heirs vs. the Trustees of the Apalachicola Land Company. Brief and Exposition of the Bill and Exhibits", by J B Brown. From the papers of Peter Brown., ?19th century.

Item

Identifier: MS.3276

Dates: ?19th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Letters and papers of the Brown family, Linkwood, with some of the family of William Leslie, Minister of Lhanbryde.

Printed items and press cuttings., 1899-1906, 1920, undated.

File

Identifier: Acc.12382/67

Scope and Contents

Containing:

'Lest we forget a keepsake from the nineteenth century' (1901), by W T Stead.

'A Garland of Affectionate Tributes To the Memory of Very Rev John Baptist Hogan' (Cambridge: Mass, 1906).

'The story of my religious experience' (San Francisco: The Catholic Truth Society, 1920), by Henry H Wyman.

'Theological book-keeping by double entry'.

'Is a Catholic university possible?' by ?Emile Joseph Dillon, 1899.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1899-1906, 1920, undated.