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Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace book of Alexander Keith of Ravelston, (died 1751), but written in more than one hand., 1684-?1688.
Commonplace book of Anne Fergusson, consisting of miscellaneous verse and prose excerpts., 1824-1836.
Commonplace-book of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe., 1647-1841.
Commonplace book (formerly a rental-book, 1785-1786), dated 1817 and 1841 (see inside front cover and folio 96), containing sketches of Hawthornden and Roslin, a manuscript copy of the Reverend John Frazer, ‘Δεντεροσκοπία’ (Edinburgh, 1707), extracts from Humbie Kirk Session Book, 1647-1676, in Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's autograph, letters, etc.
Commonplace-book of William Drummond of Hawthornden entitled 'Ephemeris', containing lists of books, extracts from other authors, etc., 1606-1614, undated.
Some of the lists are dated; the dates range from 1606 to 1614 (folios 359 verso-386)
Commonplace book previously owned by Walter Forsyth and subsequently by John Gray., 1646, 1699-[circa 1702.]
The commonplace book contains notes, 1646, by Walter Forsyth on subjects of dispute between the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches (folio 2) and notes and extracts, 1699-circa 1702, by John Gray from various printed books by John Edwards (folio 116), Sir Richard Baker (folio 139), Gilbert Burnet (folios 150, 159), and Meric Casaubon (folio 173).
A leaf is torn out between folios 95 and 96.
Commonplace book previously owned by Walter Forsyth and subsequently by John Gray., 1648, [circa 1702.]
The commonplace book contains theological notes and extracts, 1648 by Walter Forsyth with an index of topics covered, and, written in the spaces between entries (as far as folio 52 verso), extracts from various printed books, especially from the works of Jeremy Collier, and ecclesiastical biographies, circa 1702.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Commonplaces and excerpts from books collected by Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, his daughter Martha, and others., 18th century.
'Complete Collection of Papers relative to the Magazine of Rice at Pulicat'., 1782-1783, 1786.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Composite volume consisting of two unrelated and formerly separate collections of transcripts made probably at the same time as each other by Lieutenant-General G H Hutton.
Copies, 1849, of parts of MS.15927 sections (i) and (ii): “A genealogical account of the MacRa's …”, and an incomplete history of the Campbells of Craignish., [Before 1705], 1786, undated.
Copies and excerpts of correspondence, April-July, and October 1783, of James Stuart, chiefly in his own hand, with notes., 1783.
Copies and excerpts of correspondence of James Stuart, and copies of correspondence and minutes of the Select Committee, Madras., 1782-1783.
Copies and extracts, probably late nineteenth century, of letters, 1852, of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson., May-27 June 1852.
Folios 4, 6 are tipped in; folio 5 verso is pasted in; a leaf is torn out between folios 24 and 25.
Copies and extracts, probably late nineteenth century, of letters, 1852, of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson., 28 June-August 1852, undated.
Folios 23-28 and all after folio 30 are blank.
Copies and extracts, written in an unidentified hand, probably in the late nineteenth century, of letters, 1852, of Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson to her family, written from Paris., 1852, undated.
Copies, early 18th century, of autobiographies and other works of covenanters.
Copies of and excerpts from letters to Bishop William Skinner on the affairs of the Episcopal Church in Scotland., 19th century.
Copies of answers to canvasses for General Graham, extracts from freeholder’s minutes, and related printed papers., 1811-1812.
Copies of correspondence and other documents of James Stuart., 1782-1783.
Copies of correspondence and papers chiefly concerning the financial affairs of Sir Walter Scott and the Ballantynes., 1802-1839, undated.
Copies of correspondence and papers concerning a dispute between Colonel (later Major-General) Charles Ross and Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd.
Both officers belonged to the 39th Foot which was then stationed in Gibraltar. The papers, which are not in chronological order, include letters to and from George Elliot, the Governor, extracts from regimental orders, and Ross`s own comments on the affair.