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Typescripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.17
Scope and Contents

The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.

The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.

Dates: 1st quarter of 20th century.

Typescript 'Collected details re the Alston family (Scottish Branch)', compiled by Patrick R Alston, together with letters on the subject.

 File
Identifier: MS.3127
Scope and Contents

The compiler attempts to trace the history of the Saxon family of Alston from its first appearance in Scotland, before 1399. His collection, which deals mainly with Alstons of the seventeenth to nineteenth century, consists for the most part of extracts from Lionel Cresswell, ‘Stemmata Alstoniana’, 1905, other printed sources, and official records.

Dates: 1939-1941, undated.

Typescript concerning a proposed book project on the potted history of Britain, 1923-1933, undated

 File
Identifier: Acc.14390 Box 2 (15)
Scope and Contents

Typescript, with corrections, was found originally with a series of nine mounted illustrations related to a book project on the 'potted history of England'. Mounted illustrations are housed in Box 2 (14). Typescript is accompanied by a pagination proof, outlining briefly where sections will sit in the book.

Dates: 1923-1933, undated

Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: MS.8028
Scope and Contents

The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.

The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.

Dates: 1798-1827, undated.

Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9266
Scope and Contents

Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.

Dates: 1842-1859.

Typescript copies of holograph poems of Sir Walter Scott., ?1825, [1827, or after], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 120-123
Scope and Contents

The poems are as follows:

'The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee', ?1825, slightly differing from the published version;

'When, noble Duke, in joy we met', probably referring to the cheering of Wellington by sailors at Sunderland, 1827;

'Fantastic maid, whose step from dewy morn', undated.

Dates: ?1825, [1827, or after], undated.

Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.

 File
Identifier: MS.3017
Scope and Contents The letters deal almost entirely with the affairs of the Gibson family and their relations (Balfours, etc.), but contain allusions to the state of trade and building in Edinburgh due to the war (folios 6, 10, 19). At folio 40a is a letter, 1794, of another son, John, merchant in Danzig, to his mother, describing the Polish rising of that year. The letters are illustrated by modern photographs of Pilrig House, Peggie's Mill at Cramond, family portraits, and Danzig. The volume containing them...
Dates: 1795-1797.