Transcripts.
Found in 618 Collections and/or Records:
Letter written for James V, signed 'Jehan', i.e. John, Duke of Albany, as Regent, stating that Margaret Mure of Rowallane has been discharged payment of the rent of the lands of Stewarton, until the king comes of age., 1517.
A modern transcript is included.
Letters and a holograph manuscript of Thomas Campbell, with transcripts and portraits., [1806, or before], 1829, 1844.
Contains a letter to Jeffrey, 1829, recommending Miss Crumpe, the novelist; another letter, 1844; and holograph manuscript of 'Ye Mariners of England', differing slightly from the earliest and final versions.
Letters and papers of the family of Campbell of Inverawe.
Letters and papers of the Fothringhams of Powrie, the 4th Earl of Perth, and the Blairs of Balthayock.
Letters and papers of various correspondents., 1579-1844.
Letters and papers on various subjects., 1575-1824, undated.
Letters and typed transcripts of letters of Edward Ellice (died 1863) to Joseph Parkes., 1831-1863, undated.
Letters, chiefly of and to Viscount Melville.
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and miscellaneous papers concerning him.
‘Letters from Sir Walter Scott to the Shortreeds’, i.e. to Robert Shortreed, Sheriff-Substitute of Roxburghshire, and his family., 1793-1831.
The letters are almost all transcripts. They are mostly in the autograph of Andrew Shortreed, son of the Sheriff-Substitute, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and a covering letter (folio 8) with which he sent them to John Gibson Lockhart in 1837. They include a letter of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kerr, 1794 (folio 13), one of John Elliot Shortreed, 1831 (folio 68), and a poem, ‘Head and Tail’ ascribed to Scott (folio 74).
Letters mostly to Lord Byron of correspondents with surnames Davenport-Davies; including miscellaneous material concerning the life, letters and works of Scrope Berdmore Davies., 1810-2003.
Letters of and concerning David Livingstone., 1792-1872, undated.
Letters of and concerning Francis C Kinchant, Cornet, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys); with press-cuttings concerning the reinternment in Edinburgh of Charles Ewart, also of the 2nd Dragoons., 1815-1938.
Letters of and to Edwin Muir., 1924-1958.
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Edwin Muir, 1936-1958 (folio 1); (ii) Transcripts of letters of Muir to Sydney Schiff ('Stephen Hudson') on literary topics, 1924-1939 (folio 14).
Letters of celebrities, some accompanied by transcripts (not wholly accurate), notes, printed matter, and portraits.
Letters of Joseph Hume, MP, with transcripts and a newspaper-cutting., 1822-1852.
Letters of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Lord John Russell on parliamentary reform, with transcripts., 1851.
Letters of Sir Charles Maitland to his mother, with related material., 1854-1855.
The letters concern the Crimean War, describing Sir Charles Maitland's journey to Sebastopol, the actions in which he took part, and his convalescence after being wounded. There is a rough plan of the battle of Balaclava at folio 226 verso. At folio 281 is a letter, 1855, from General Sir George Higginson to Maitland. Some of the letters are incomplete, and each is followed by a typed transcript.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, with associated correspondence, and transcripts of letters of Scott and Constable.
‘Letters of Sir Walter Scott to various parties, chiefly transcripts, 1793-1832’., 1793-1832.
Letters of Teresa Guiccioli; and letter of Charlotte Douglas-Hamilton (later Seymour) to Lord Byron., 1816-1859, undated.
Letters of W B Yeats to Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1907-1935.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Grey, E. to Grieve., 1781-1947.
Letters to Sir Sidney Colvin, relating chiefly to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Each letter is accompanied by a typed transcript.
Letters to Sir Walter Scott, [?1825]-1828, with other documents, concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte., 1789-1828.
Includes letters from Paris describing incidents in the Revolution, 1789 and 1793 (folio 145); facsimiles and transcripts of letters and documents, 1797-1813, in the Swedish Archives relating to Bernadotte (folio 43); and accounts of Napoleon's voyage to St Helena and captivity there.