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Manuscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Archibald Constable, publisher, Edinburgh, his firm and his family; with one volume of the manuscript of a work published in "Constable's miscellany".

 Series
Identifier: MSS.668-684
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include many of the most celebrated men (chiefly literary) of the time.

Dates: 1788-1856.

Correspondence of Elizabeth, Duchess of Argyll.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.5.4(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents

The correspondence concerns the Duchess’s legal and financial affairs, particularly after the death of the 1st Duke of Argyll in 1703. Many of the letters are addressed to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, her legal adviser (see also Adv.MS.29.3.5).

Dates: 1691-1726, and undated.

Correspondence of George Paton, the antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.5.5-29.5.8
Scope and Contents

Paton was originally a bookseller and later, in his leisure from his occupation in the Customs House at Edinburgh, he continued to cultivate his bibliographic and antiquarian interests. He corresponded with many of the leading antiquaries of his time, most prolifically with Thomas Pennant and Richard Gough. The topics range through all aspects of antiquities, topography, local history, and especially books.

Dates: 1762-1804, and undated.

Correspondence of James Maidment with and concerning John Riddell, with some other papers of Riddell.

 File
Identifier: MS.5312
Scope and Contents

The letters chiefly concern genealogical matters and the disposal after his death of John Riddell's manuscripts (the Riddell Collection), which were arranged by James Maidment and chiefly purchased by Lord Lindsay for ultimate preservation in the Advocates' Library.

Dates: 1805-1867.

Correspondence of John Leycester Adolphus and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6445
Scope and Contents

With a manuscript of Adolphus, concerning Sir Walter Scott.

Dates: 1792-1875.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence of Sir James Wordie formerly loosely inserted inside the printed books and pamphlets of the Wordie Collection., 1922-1959, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9501-9503
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists of letters to James Wordie and carbon copies of his replies, together with miscellaneous material in manuscript, typescript and print, much of it referring to the particular printed work in which it was inserted.

A table of sources has been added to each volume.

Dates: 1922-1959, undated.

Correspondence of the Hoby family, said to have belonged to Archibald Constable, the publisher.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.34.2.14-34.2.15
Scope and Contents

They were bound up, in no particular order, about 1820 (the paper of the endpapers is watermarked 1817), presumably for Constable.

Dates: 1549-1638.

Correspondence of the Scotts of Raeburn., 1660-1822.

 File
Identifier: MS.2889
Scope and Contents

The correspondence includes religious writings of the seventeenth century, by George Fox, 'the younger in the truth', George Keith, Walter Scott, the Quaker laird of Raeburn, and others, and papers, found at the Haining, relating to the duel in which Walter, the laird of Raebum, was killed in 1707. The later letters are chiefly addressed by Sir Walter Scott to the sixth laird.

Dates: 1660-1822.

Correspondence of William Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, in his capacity of Commander-in-Chief in Scotland, with some related papers.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.22
Scope and Contents The majority of the letters (beginning on folio 1) date from August 1746, and are addressed to Albemarle by his officers. The subjects include the subjugation of the Highlands, the search for Prince Charles Edward and his followers, and the relation of military and civil authorities. All but four of the letters are published in ‘The Albemarle Papers’, volume 1. They have been arranged in the same order as printed, and Charles Sanford Terry`s serial number has been added in pencil; those not...
Dates: Circa 1746.