Descriptions. Documents.
Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:
'Journal of an excursion to Ireland, Wales and England' by Alexander J Adie., 1828.
Alexander J Adie travelled through Galloway to Belfast and Dublin, then through North Wales, returning to Edinburgh through Newcastle. His journal describes the countryside and people, but his interest was primarily in bridges, mines, railways and other engineering works. There are detailed descriptions, with small sketches, of a descent in a diving bell (folio 19) and visits to a salt mine (folio 37) and iron works (folio 50).
Journal of J Ker, Surgeon in the Royal Navy.
The Naval log is illustrated by sketches of ships, scenery, antiquities, etc., and accompanied by several poems and a dissertation on the putrid fever of St Lucia (folio 27). The scenes and incidents described include the West Indies, 1778-1779; Denmark and Zetland, 1780; the loss of the ‘Royal George’, 1782; and the battle of Cape St Vincent.
Journal of the 2nd Earl of Minto with many meteorological notes and observations., July 1829-November 1830.
Journal of the 2nd Earl of Minto with many meteorological notes and observations., 15 July 1829-19 August 1830.
Journal of the 2nd Earl of Minto with many meteorological notes and observations., 20 August-4 November 1830.
Letters and papers of the Falconers of Halkerton., 1751-1776, undated.
Chiefly letters written from Holland by the 7th Lord Falconer; also descriptions of property in Jamaica.
Letters and papers of the Falconers of Halkerton, including descriptions of the war in America., 1766-1777.
Letters chiefly to and of John Rennie., 1779-1821.
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fragments of Ruthven Todd concerning Mull., 1962, 1967, undated.
The papers include part of a letter (probably an application for a grant) describing the book (folio 42). Most of the material concerns Mull.
Manuscript containing a description of Seringapatam, 1800, and anecdotes about Tipu, his court and government, compiled cira 1823., 1800, [circa 1823].
Manuscript, in a late sixteenth-century hand, containing the whole of the 'Description of Scotland' and part of the 'Historie of Scotlande', corresponding to pages 1-82 of that portion of 'The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande' by Raphael Holinshed.
The remainder of the manuscript has been cut away.
Manuscript of "Cours de I'Histoire Général" by Claude François Henry.
A work intended as a universal history from the earliest times to the French Revolution, but which, from the 11th century onwards, is confined to the history of France. The text begins (folio 28) with a description of the work and material on the planetary system and world geography. It is preceded by geographical and chronological tables (folio 2). The work was compiled while Henry (1773-1820), a French army officer, was a prisoner of war near Jedburgh.
Manuscript of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.
Manuscript titled ‘Reliquiae divi Andreae, or, the State of the Venerable and Primitiall See of St. Andrews, by George Martine'., 1683-1689.
Manuscript, undated, titled 'Some recreations of a handloom weaver', being a work on natural history written for his family by Alexander Gray (1800-1880), grandfather of Sir Alexander Gray., [Before 1881.]
The manuscript consists of a general history and description of the earth, followed by descriptions of animals, illustrated with several watercolours. At the end (folio 203) are miscellaneous notes and verses.
Manuscript volume entitled "The Journey Rout[e] of Her Imperial Majesty from Charcoff thro' the Government of Kursk to Moscow ... By the Governments Geometrician & Land Measurer Basshiloff 1787", consisting of descriptions of the different sections of the route through Kursk with illustrative maps.
The title of the main text is on folio 2. It is followed by a 'Short Delineation' (folio 17) and a map (folio 22) of the district. It is presumably a contemporary translation of part of the route of the return journey of Catherine II from her visit to the south and the then recently acquired territories in the Crimea.
Manuscripts and typescripts of various literary works by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [Circa 1938.]
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript and typescripts of the introduction and opening chapter of 'Aubrey Beardsley: a study in the grotesque', 1937 (folio l); (ii) Manuscript of part of an autobiographical novel, 1938 (folio 22). It includes a title-page for 'The wilderness' (folio 25), but the text is not related to MS.26144. (iii) Manuscript fragment of a fictional description of a visit to Venice, circa l938 (folio 61).
Manuscripts of the Reverend George Low, the naturalist.
Material concerning a corn-mill of Norse type at Loch Ordais, South Bragar, Lewis, the outcome of a project by the pupils of Leurbost J S School., 1968.
Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Memorandum on Jacobite intrigues in Sweden.
The manuscript signed by Johan Friedrich Osthoff, describes intrigues conducted in the interest of Prince James Stuart in 1719, with especial reference to a bogus expedition to Madagascar. The persons chiefly active were one Morgan, Captain Galloway of the frigate ‘Revolution’, Colonel Sebach, Clincowstrom (Klinckowstrom), and Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish Minister in London.