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Some of the poems are rough drafts, written on scrap paper or leaves torn from notebooks, and others are fair copies; many are incomplete, and there are some variants.

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Some of the poems are preceded by notes about the date, circumstances of writing and publication. There are a few translations from Spanish (folio 90).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems in English, undated (folio 1). Some were published in ‘Forest voices’. (ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of poems in Scots, 1969-1970, undated (folio l5). They include translations from Blake, T S Eliot and C Day Lewis. (iii) Corrected typescripts of short stories, undated (folio 87); (iv) Letters to Edith Anne Robertson about her work, 1915-1973, undated (folio 93); (v) Printed articles and newspaper cuttings, ?1916-1973...

Scope and Contents List of maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1.Folios 6-7. Printed map: ‘Britannicarum insularum typus’ (Abraham Ortelius, 1595).Folios 8-9. Printed map: ‘Insulæ Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacentibus’.Folios 10-11. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum’.Folios 12-13. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum cum insulis adjacentibus’ (Robert Gordon of Straloch).Folios 20-21. Printed map: ‘Scotiæ provintiæ inter Taum fluvium et septentrionales...

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Also included are: a State of Terregles Parish, 1776 (folio 24); a printed ‘Song for the Duddingston Curling Society’, 1817, with manuscript notes of the names of the persons mentioned (folio 26); and two leaves printed from John Philp Wood's biographies of the Presidents of the Court of Session (Adv.MS.37.2.1, pages 1-19), showing that he intended to publish them (folio 28).

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The material consists of printed articles, reviews and press-cuttings, but also includes (folio 2) the typescript of E M Forster's "The novels of Virginia Woolf', published in ‘The New Criterion’ iv (1925-1926), pages 277-286, with manuscript corrections by Forster.

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The material consists of typescripts of the stories 'The White Hour' and 'Gentlemen' (folio 2), and printed copies of 'The Moor', 'Between Headlands', 'Hidden Doors' and 'The Sleeping Bins' (folio 21). There are a few manuscript corrections throughout.

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The undated papers are arranged thus: Latin (folio 130), French (folio 157), English (folio 178), and printed (folio 345). Among a series of opinions on the condition of Margaret Carnegie, wife of Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, are several by John Locke.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, [circa 1836], of Sir Thomas A L Strange to his son, Lumisden, giving biographical details of his uncle, Andrew Lumisden. (Folio 1.)(ii) Genealogical material, 1836, undated, relating to the Strange family. (Folios 32.)(iii) Pedigree, 1798, of Andrew Lumisden in his own hand, following a letter, 1814, of J Lumisden, Bengal. (Folio 36.)(iv) Printed pamphlet, ‘Votes of the House of Commons 1746’ (London,...

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Contains numerous very brief miscellaneous notes, and a more continuous entry (folios 5 verso-9 verso) written in Spanish and relating to Spain.

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The mess book consists of the printed 'Mess Regulations' for each year, names of ‘Strangers’ and ‘Guests’ and by whom invited, and ‘names of troopers absent from Mess’.

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The manuscript is inscribed: ‘Coningesby—Given me by Mr. Archer March—1752. Wrote by Thos. Foxton’. An article from ‘Notes and Queries’, 2nd series, volume ii, page 321, is inserted at folio i. The manuscript of this article, which is initialled J O, and a note on Thomas Foxton by Alexander Gardyne, are attached to the end-papers at the beginning of the volume.

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The contents are as follows: Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);

Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);

Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Letters, 1813-1815, of colonial governors, chiefly of Charles Cameron, Governor of the Bahamas (MS.2338);Correspondence, 1815-1819, chiefly official, of the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane (MS.2575);Letters, [1777-1838], of the Reverend William Leslie, Minister of Lhanbryde, and papers, [1875-1876], of other family members (MS.3264);Printed item, ?19th century, entitled "Circuit Court, Middle Circuit,...