Diaries.

Scope and Contents The volume also contains material accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.The papers include :Copies of four letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1824, 1829 (folios 15-22);Information regarding Jonathan Swift supplied by Irish correspondents (folios 33, 70);Maria Edgeworth’s note of the tour which she took with Scott in August 1825 (folio 50);Thomas Moore’s journal, in his hand, of his visit to Abbotsford in 1825, used by Lockhart in his ‘Life...

Dates: 1821-1850, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order. / Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott. / Miscellaneous material, chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.

Notes and memoranda of John Hill Burton., 1827-1863.

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS.9418-9444

Dates: 1827-1863.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of John Hill Burton, advocate and historian, consisting chiefly of letters to Burton, together with a few miscellaneous notes and memoranda written by him.

Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, advocate., 18th century.

Series

Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.6.1-80.6.14

Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are either in the hand of George Dundas, or bear evidence of his ownership.

Dates: 18th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.

Notes and papers of Sir Graham Balfour., 1888-1929, undated.

File

Identifier: MS.9897

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: (i) Apparently unpublished articles by Sir Graham Balfour (folio 1); (ii) Transcriptions and typescripts of articles about Robert Louis Stevenson collected by Balfour (folio 128); (iii) Miscellaneous notes which include excerpts of diaries, 1851-1853, belonging to Margaret Isabella Stevenson (folio 201).

Dates: 1888-1929, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Sir Graham Balfour, and material collected by him for his ‘The life of Robert Louis Stevenson’. / Notes and notebooks of Sir Graham Balfour.

'Observations upon the Weather, &c.' by George Watson, apparently a farmer in Kincardineshire., 1747-1782.

File

Identifier: MS.2679

Scope and Contents

The observations are in the form of short daily entries for the years 1747-1749, 1756-1757, 1759 (November-December missing), 1760, 1764, 1766, 1781 (June-July only), 1782; with, here and there, a pious poem and notes on farming. At the end (folio 72), a complete gathering, originally a separate notebook, is devoted to notes on farming, 1764-1767.

Dates: 1747-1782.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).