Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Works of James Ramsay, volumes VII-IX: 'Prospects of Private Life'., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Works of John H Balfour Browne.
With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.
Works of prose of Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1934-1936, 1955, 1963-1964, 1973, undated.
Works on the antiquities of Buchan by James Mitchell., 19th century.
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804-1807.
The sheets which Sir Walter Scott published in his edition of Anna Seward's ‘Poetical works’, 1810, were evidently taken out by him, and this collection consists of the unpublished remainder. These writings are described in her letter of 17 July 1807, sent to Scott posthumously (MS.870, folio 14, printed in her ‘Poetical works,’ volume i, page xxxiii).
Writings of David Gray, chiefly in manuscript, but some in print, including poems, part of an attempt at drama, essays, and miscellaneous notes., [1861, or before.]
Several of the poems appear to be unpublished.
Writings of James Hogg, published by Blackie & Son in 1837, with biographical material regarding his family, supplied in connection with the Centenary Edition of his 'Works', published by the same firm in 1873.
Writings of James Hogg, with manuscripts written by his daughter Mrs Gilkison., [1829, or after], undated.
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'The surpassing adventures of Adam Gordon', in James Hogg's hand, on paper watermarked 1829. Printed, with abbreviations, in ‘Tales and sketches’, volume i. For a typed transcript see MS.6139. (Folio 1.)
(ii) "The original manuscript of a Bard's address to his youngest daughter", in the hand of his daughter, Mrs Gilkison. (Folio 23.)
(iii) 'Recollections of Mrs Hogg', the poet's wife, by Mrs Gilkison. (Folio 24.)
Writings of Janet Wills, sister of William and Robert Chambers and wife of William Henry Wills.
The papers comprise accounts of a visit to Glasgow Blind Asylum (folio 1) and of experiences, real or fictitious, in Argyll (folio 5), Epping Forest (folio 10), France (folio 20), and the Rhineland (folio 28), and stories (folio 47), undated.
Writings of Robert Lochore, cordiner, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).
There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.
Writings of William Winter Hamilton., 1971-1992, undated.
Writings on various subjects of Alexander Carlyle., 1752-1803, undated.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
'ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DORON], ò Instruciones, compuestos por ... Jaymes ... Rey de Ingalaterra ... Traduzidado de Ingles en Romance vulgar, y dirigido a la misma Magestad por su ... vassallo Juan Pemberton, gentilhombre, natural de la insigne Ciudad de Londres.'
According to a note inside the end cover, the translator may have been a citizen and grocer who was a brother of Sir James Pemberton, Lord Mayor of London, 1611.
`Πρόνοια. Providentia. Divina Providentia in Rebus Humanis. Divine Providence in humane affaires. A Collection of Providential Passages Antient and Modern Foreign and Domestick by Master James Fraser Minister At Kirkhill. Written Anno 1678.`
Originally part (Inv.XI) of the Rose Collection, Adv. MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.