Manuscripts.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell from a variety of correspondents, principally publishers and booksellers, concerning ‘Leabhar na Feinne’; with original binding., 1872-1873, 1878, 1883.
The letters have been dis-bound, fascicled and boxed.
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell, mainly relating to his acquisition of apparatus for solar experiments, particularly glass spheres., 1879-1882.
Correspondents include various opticians and civil engineers whose assistance Campbell required.
There are also several letters from Donald Macleod, editor of ‘Good Words’, concerning proposals for publication of articles by Campbell.
Printed items include an article on ‘The Sun’ by Professor Roscoe, ‘The Sun and the Earth’ by Professor Balfour Stewart and ‘Dioptric Apparatus in Lighthouses for the Electric Light’, by James T Chance, a civil engineer.
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell relating to thermography., 1858-1880.
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell while he was engaged in collecting folktales for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’., 1859-1860.
The correspondents are mainly those people who assisted Campbell with his collection and translation of Gaelic tales into English, including Hector Maclean, Hector Urquhart and John Dewar. There are also quite a few letters from the Scandinavian scholar Sir George Webbe Dasent.
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell while he was engaged in collecting folktales for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’; with original binding., 1859-1860.
Letters of colonial governors, chiefly of Charles Cameron, Governor of the Bahamas., 1813-1815.
Includes an inquiry into the sale of enslaved Africans (folio 111).
Letters of George Paton to Richard Gough, 1771-1804, and drafts of some of Gough`s replies, 1771-1790, 1797, 1800, 1802., 1771-1802.
Some other correspondence of the two is included; for details of this see Doig`s `Index` see `Index to the correspondence of George Paton` (the misplacements noted there have since been corrected).
Formerly bound in two volumes.
Letters of George Paton to Richard Gough and drafts of some of Gough`s replies., 1771-1774.
Letters of George Paton to Richard Gough and drafts of some of Gough`s replies., 1775-1778.
Letters of George Paton to Richard Gough and drafts of some of Gough`s replies., 1779-1785.
Letters of George Paton to Richard Gough and drafts of some of Gough`s replies., 1786-1804.
Letters of George Rose, and some manuscripts of George Rose with comments by Henry Mackenzie., 1800-1811.
Letters of Hamish MacCunn to Miss J C Drysdale, and an account, undated, by Miss Drysdale of the life of Learmont Drysdale, her brother., 1916, undated.
Also included are relevant letters of the donor, Henry G Farmer.
Letters of James Cummyng (1762-1789, and undated), David Herd (1778-1796, and undated), Alexander Pope (1778-1782), George Low (1772-1795, and undated), John Lightfoot (1774), and Marmaduke Tunstall (1775-1776)., 1762-1796.
Letters of King Charles II relating to a dispute between Thomas Fleming, merchant, and Captain Cornelius Vanderzype,1650-1651, and papers concerning coal-mining at Tranent, 1745-1746.
Letters of Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh., 1804-1823.
Letters of Mountstuart Elphinstone, mostly to William Erskine, the historian of India., 1811-1834.
Typed transcripts of the letters are at 28.5.16.
Letters of Richard Gough, the antiquary, to George Paton., 1771-1804, and undated.
A few other items are included; for details of these and notes on misplaced letters see `Index to the correspondence of George Paton`.
Letters of Richard Gough, the antiquary, to George Paton., 1771-1781, and undated.
Letters of Richard Gough, the antiquary, to George Paton., 1782-1804, and undated.
Letters of Richard Scudamore to Sir Philip Hoby, the diplomatist., 1549-1550, 1555.
Scudamore, a younger son of John Scudamore of Holme Lacy, was Hoby`s servant and agent for his financial affairs during his absence abroad from 1548 to 1550, as ambassador to the Emperor Charles V. In addition to writing about Hoby`s affairs, Scudamore gives brief accounts of events in England. These include the imprisionment of the Duke of Somerset, the Bishop of London, and others; Kett`s rebellion and the rising in the West country; the execution of Joan Bocher; and events at court.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Letters of Ronald Campbell Macfie to Mairi Campbell Ireland., 1930-1931, undated.
Ronald Campbell Macfie writes about mutual friends and acquaintances and discusses poetry at some length, both his own and that of others. Drafts of two of his poems, 'High Lands and High Ladies' and 'The Aberdonian' are included (folios 65-72). The correspondence is followed (folio 123) by other manuscript, typescript and printed poems, most of which were published in ‘The complete poems of Ronald Campbell Macfie’, 1937.
Letters of Sir David Dalrymple (1772-1791, and undated), Thomas Percy (1768-1779), and Joseph Ritson (1792-1795) to George Paton., 1768-1795, and undated.
Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle., 1823-1874, undated.
The contents include a letter of Edward Irving, 1827 (folio 226); the verse, 'Simon Brodie had a cow', in Thomas Carlyle's handwriting, 1849 (folio 240); a draft of Carlyle's letter to David Laing on a proposed exhibition of Scottish historical portraits, 1854 (folio 247); and a fragment of an account by Carlyle of his early life, undated (folio 271).