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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Copy, with translation, of a letter of Dmitri Shostakovich to John McLeod.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10799
Scope and Contents

Concerns variations by McLeod on a theme from Shostakovich`s Fifth Symphony.

Dates: 1973.

Copy 'Written be Me Richard Moir schoolemaister at Campsie 1636' of 'The Historie and chronicles of Scotland', John Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's ‘Scotorum historiae’ in seventeen books.

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Identifier: MS.21244
Scope and Contents

It appears to have been copied, with substantial differences in places, from the first edition which was printed at Edinburgh about 1536. The chronicle is continued, as Books xviii-xxii (folio 321), by the 'Historie and chronicles of Scotland' by Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie to the year 1566. This is followed (folio 447), as Book xxiii, by another continuation, in considerably less detail, as far as the year 1604 and (folio 463) 'Some late accidentes', a list of events from 1612 to 1637.

Dates: 1536-?1637.

Copy, written by a clerk, of the Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine’s collection of Ossianic ballads, including some parodies and late imitations.

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Identifier: MS.14882
Scope and Contents In a letter of the Reverend Dr Alexander Robertson Irvine of Blair Atholl (now folios i-ii), to his son, it is pointed out that Irvine got most of the poems from the recitation of John MacDonald of Dalchosnie (1721-1809) during 1800-1804, while he was missionary in Rannoch. Full information is given in the manuscript on the sources of many of the remaining poems, which were collected in various parts of Perthshire (and in Greenock, in the case of Captain Alexander Morrison),...
Dates: 1800-1808.

Copy written in an unidentified hand of Alexander Carlyle's 'Recollections'., 1801-1805.

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Identifier: MS.23910
Scope and Contents

The copy is written on sheets watermarked 1801 (folios 1-74) and 1805 (folios 75-134). They record events in Alexander Carlyle's life between 1723 and 1737 and appear to have been written before the autobiography, as revised portions appear to have been incorporated into it. Many passages have been lightly deleted and other marks made in pencil.

Dates: 1801-1805.

Copy, written in the 2nd half of the 17th century, probably in Holland, of essays against Georgios Plethon by Matthaeus Camariota, 15th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.4
Scope and Contents

The manuscript gives the author`s name as Μακαριώτης and the title as πρὸς Πλήθωνα κατὰ (for περὶ) εἱμαρμένης.

Dates: 15th century.

Copy, written probably in a mid eighteenth-century hand, of two documents of Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade., 1724-1725.

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Identifier: MS.7118
Scope and Contents

The two documents are: the 'Report &ca relating to the Highlands 1724' submitted to George I (folio 1), and the 'Scheme delivered to the King in April 1725' (folio 21). George Wade.

Dates: 1724-1725.

Corrected autograph score of Edward McGuire, "Euphoria - a Sense of Well-Being", for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion.

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Identifier: Acc.10795
Scope and Contents

Includes copy of the final version of the work and tape recording of its first performance, Edinburgh.

Dates: 1980.

Corrected typescript drafts of play of Stewart Conn, "The King".

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Identifier: Acc.4433
Scope and Contents

With a copy of a review of the play.

Dates: circa 1967.

Correspondence, 1871-1891, undated, and papers, 1872-1889, undated, concerning James Augustus Grant's genealogical researches., 1871-1891, undated.

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Identifier: MS.17942
Scope and Contents

The correspondence begins on folio 1, and the papers on folio 74. Included are notes and histories by James Augustus Grant amd others, and the results of searches in various records, and copies of documents.

Dates: 1871-1891, undated.

Correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous papers of Alexander Turnbull Christie., 1825-1838, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9497
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Letters, 1827-1832, to Alexander Turnbull Christie, with a few copies of his own letters (folio 1);

(ii) Financial papers, 1825-1831, undated (folio 59);

(iii) Design for a house, circa 1830 (folio 69);

(iv) 'De membranae mucosae pathologia', circa 1828 (folio 71);

(v) Miscellaneous scientific papers, 1831, 1838, undated, of Christie and John Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans (folio 99).

Dates: 1825-1838, undated.

Correspondence and administrative papers of James Stuart including drafts, copies and extracts., 1782-1783.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8335-8350
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is between James Stuart, as Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company's forces based on Fort St George (Madras), officials of the Company, and officers of the army. It concerns the day-to-day administration of the forces under Stuart's command, general administration of the Madras Presidency, and local politics.

Dates: 1782-1783.

Correspondence and family papers of the Marquesses and Marchionesses of Lothian, received unbound., 1729-1900, undated.

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Identifier: MS.5801
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence: an unsigned letter, 1729, to the Marchioness of Lothian from her sister (probably Eleanora, wife of John Craufurd of Craufurdland); eight letters, 1870, written by the 8th Marchioness and the 9th Marquess and Marchioness; and nine letters, 1871-1899, undated, written to the 9th Marquess. (Folio 1.)(ii) Other papers: copy of an inscription on a dirk given to the 6th Marquess, 1797; 'Maxims by my Father', in the hand of...
Dates: 1729-1900, undated.

Correspondence and memoranda of Hector MacIver, schoolmaster., 1948-1962, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.26295(part 1)-(part 2)
Scope and Contents

Much of the correspondence concerns Hector Maclver’s running of the English Department and disagreements with the Rector, and copies of many of his own letters are included. Other topics are editorial policy in the school magazines, and the unveiling of a memorial plaque to the poet Robert Fergusson in 1958.

Dates: 1948-1962, undated.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Neil Munro., 1863-1966, undated.

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Identifier: MS.26927
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, 1898-1927, undated (folio l). This includes letters from the novelist, Joseph Conrad, and copies of agreements with publishers. (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1863-1966, undated, including lists of works by Neil Munro and tributes to him (folio 35).

Dates: 1863-1966, undated.