Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Letters and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as Governor of Newfoundland., 1804-1840.
Letters and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane, chiefly as Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, 1852-1855., 1847-1855.
Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1787-1803.
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters and exercises of the 1st Earl's children to their parents, 1787-1803 (folio 1); (ii) Letters of the children's tutors, William Somerville at Minto and James Reed at Eton, to the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto, 1791, 1797 (folio 126); (iii) A Latin prose composition by the 2nd Earl of Minto, 1799, and essays composed by him at Vienna in 1800 (folio 170).
Letters and papers of Captain the Honourable (afterwards Admiral Sir) Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane.
Letters and papers of David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.
The letters, which are mostly from George Henry Hutton and other antiquaries, concern the publication of chartularies and the compilation of a history of Scottish religious houses. There are also manuscript and printed copies of Buchan`s speeches to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1784-1785, 1787 (folio 76).
Letters and papers of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury., 1665-1698, and undated.
Letters and papers of Mary Mackenzie, 1739-1776., 1739-1776, undated.
Also included are a letter to Mary Mackenzie from Anne Robertson of Faskally, 1747 (folio 53), and a paper of Rebecca Mackenzie, daughter of John Mackenzie, Advocate, undated (folio 198).
Letters and papers of Rachel Armand Taylor (1876-1960), poet and journalist, who was a student of Herbert Grierson's at Aberdeen University in the 1890s and with whom he kept up a lifelong correspondence., 1895-1946.
Letters and papers of Robert Bruce Armstrong, chiefly concerning the collection of material for the unpublished continuation of his ‘The history of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debateable Land’.
Letters and papers of Ronald Campbell MacFie, poet and physician (died 1931), who was a friend and contemporary of Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University., [Circa 1895-1931, or after.]
Letters and papers of Sir Charles H Firth, and of his wife, Lady Frances Firth, to Professor David Nicol Smith., 1909-1939, undated.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters and papers, 1909-1936, undated, of Sir Charles H Firth. Many of the letters take the form of brief notes but the papers include manuscripts and typescripts of reviews and articles. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Letters and papers, 1926-1939, undated, of Frances, Lady Firth, mostly concerning the disposal of Sir Charles's books. (Folio 186.)
Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Letters and papers of Sydney Durward Tremayne (1912-1986), the poet and journalist.
Letters and papers of the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Argyll.
Most of the papers concern the settling of the 1st Duke`s affairs after his death in 1703, with particular reference to his estate at Chirton in Northumberland. Many of the letters are addressed to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, who was acting on behalf of Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Argyll.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor., 1825-1869.
Letters and papers pasted or inserted loose in printed books, inscriptions written in books, etc., in the Hugh Sharp Collection.
Letters and poems of George Macdonald.
The letters, which include some from his wife Louisa, are written to Baron and Lady Mount-Temple. They mention George Macdonald's work, give news of himself and of his family, describe his surroundings in Italy, and contain many reflections on God and the next world. The poems (folio 95) are both manuscript and printed. There are also a few poems included in the letters.
Letters and state papers of James VI., 1578-1621.
Letters, and typed transcripts of letters, of Mountstuart Elphinstone, mostly to William Erskine, the historian of India.
The letters concern Indian, Turki and Persian literature, philology and geography, with special reference to Erskine`s translation of Bābar`s Memoirs, and Elphinstone`s ‘Account of the Kingdom of Cabul’. There are very few references to current events, but a small number of letters to Elphinstone are included (Adv.MS.28.5.15, folio 183) which concern the administration of justice in India.
Letters chiefly from members of the English army in the North of England and Scotland, and addressed to Sir William Clarke, secretary to General Monck, and to Monck himself.
The letters of 1648 mostly concern the campaign against the Scots and the capture of Pontefract. Those of 1659 are on military and political matters and include the draft of Monck`s manifesto at Coldstream.
Letters chiefly of, to, or concerning David Livingstone and his wife; and other papers.
Letters, chiefly to John Stuart Blackie, with papers relating to his death., 1827-1897, undated.
Letters, etc., chiefly addressed to Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Sheils, writer in Edinburgh, née Wightman.
The writers include Thomas Boston the Elder, 1719, 1728 (folios 9, 46; transcripts appended), and other divines, and the content of the letters is mainly religious. It includes an account of the death and prophecies of Robert Stark, Minister of Stenton (folio 66). For the Wightman family, see notes on folios i-iv. At folio 84 is a copy of a letter, 1797, of the Marquess Cornwallis to Dundas regarding promotion in the East India Company's Army.
Letters, mainly to various officials in the Board of Health from scientists, inventors and manufacturers., 1855-1860.
Included among the correspondents are the chemist Sir Henry E Roscoe, the inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone, and the engineer Sir William Fairbairn.
A considerable number of printed items have been bound into the volume and are mainly reports and articles on various heating and ventilating systems, including a few in French.
There are also some of John Francis Campbell`s notes on experiments relating to heating and ventilation, with diagrams.