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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates: 1605-1725.

Notebook containing copies by Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd of her own poems. , ?1933.

 File
Identifier: MS.27441
Scope and Contents

The date of composition, 1915-1933, is given in many cases.

There are some corrections in the manuscript and a few of the titles differ from those in the published version.

Several folios have been cut out at the beginning.

Dates: ?1933.

Notebook containing 'Journal commencing from the surrender of Quebec, 1759' by James Murray., 1759-1760.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4853
Scope and Contents

The journal covers the period 18 September 1759, to 9 September 1760.

At the end of the notebook are 'Copies of some papers which passed between General Wolfe and the brigadiers' (namely, Robert Monckton, George Townsend, and James Murray), dated August and September 1759.

Dates: 1759-1760.

Notebook in several hands containing culinary, household and medical recipes.

 Item
Identifier: MS.24775
Scope and Contents

The volume is inscribed at folio 1 'Pastry Book Elgin 20th August 1734' and at folio 15 'Jean Robinson 23rd January 1749/50'. Later entries are largely copied from newspapers and magazines, particulary 'The Edinburgh Evening Courant' and 'The Edinburgh Advertiser'

Dates: 1734-1802, undated.

Notebook kept by the 6th Marquess of Lothian, chiefly concerning the service in Ireland of the Midlothian Fencible Cavalry Regiment, of which he was Colonel., 1797-1799.

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Identifier: MS.5750
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains copies of correspondence, orders, etc., a report of the Regiment's movements in the 1798 rebellion, and, inter alia, a treatise, 1801, on the etymology of military words (folio 68 verso), two stories (folios 103 verso, 136 verso), and notes on military theory.

Dates: 1797-1799.