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233
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National Library of Scotland
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GB233/MS.3112
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Miscellaneous
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16th century-19th century
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Open
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(i) Letter of Henri II, King of France, to the Seneschal d'Agenois, ordering better accommodation to be provided for Mary, Queen of Scots, at Mantes.1550 (f. i). (ii) Photostat of the last will and testament of Colonel George Mathesoune in the Czar's service, 1633 (f. a). It includes a list of his clothes. From the original among the Ashe Papers, deposited in the Central Library, Ipswich by A. C. G. Lloyd, Scotland Place, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk. (iii) Letter of the Earl of Annandale to the Earl of Rothes, 1667 (f. 5). (iv) Letter of the Earl of Mar, as Secretary of State for Scotland, probably to Godolphin, 1708 (f. 7). (v) Account rendered by Captain John Porteous to Sir James Johnstone, on Captain Patrick Murray's account, for enlisting a man, for articles of clothing etc 1735 (f- 9)- (vi) Report of the interrogation of Charles Henderson and John Brown lately escaped from France, on the preparations being made in that country for an invasion of England, 1746 (f. 10). (vii) Papers, 1762, 1768, 1810, of the Sharps of Hoddam, from MS. 3084 (f. 12). (viii) Letter of George Dempster of Dunnichen to James Boswell on the latter's marriage projects and on Paoli, 1769 (f. 22). (ix) Letter, 1775, of Sir William Forbes, Bart., the banker, to the Honourable Jolm Forbes, Master of Pitsligo, dealing chiefly with Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles and his controversy with James Macpherson (f. 25). (x) Letter of David Hume to the officer commanding a scientific nautical expedition, recommending a midshipman, 1772 (f. 29). (xi) Letter of Hugh Blair to Principal Joseph McCormick, recommending Robert Blair, the astronomer, 1785 (f. 30). (xii) Letter of Dugald Stewart to the Rev. Archibald Alison relating events in France, 1789 (f. 32). (xiii) Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot as Viceroy of Corsica to Henry Dundas 1794-5 (f. 36). He writes of the situation in Corsica and French movement; in the Mediterranean theatre of war, complains of lack of co-operation on the part of Major-General Charles Stuart, criticizes Paoli, and accuses Lieutenant-Colonel (afterwards Sir John) Moore of backing him. (xiv) Correspondence of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, chiefly with Cardinal York or on his affairs, with a few letters on Catholic Emancipation, 1795-1811. n.d. (f. 54). Many of the letters are copies, some of which Hippisley may have made in preparing his edition of Letters from the Cardinal Borgia and the Cardinal of York, MDCCXCIX-MDCCC, Lond., 1800. Several of the letters are printed in that work and in the Catalogue of the Collection . . .formed by Alfred Morrison, pr pr London, 1883-92 from which collection they come. (xv) 'Unpublished letters of William Blackwood to Archibald Constable'. 1796-1815 (f. 138). Typed copy of the full text of the letters with notes made by Thomas Davidson Cook from three volumes of Constable's correspondence in the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. These volumes, which contain letters of correspondents whose names begin with B, originally belonged to the set now constituting National Library MSS. 327-32, 668-75. (xvi) Letter of and relating to Sir Walter Scott (f. 160). Letters of Scott written to the Pringles of Whytbank, chiefly on Selkirkshire politics or relating to their affairs, including a letter of the Earl of Dalkeith, afterwards 4th Duke of Buccleuch, and one of the second Sir Walter, 1797-1831 (f 160-3, 178, 184, 188-200). See also (xxxii) below. Letters of the Ballantynes to Constable, with one of Scott, on the publication of various works, 1816-23 (ff. 165-70, 176, 182). Letters of Scott, giving advice to the author of a poem, [1816] (f. 164). Letter of Scott to John Richardson, 12 January, 1819, printed by Lockhart, with omissions, under the date 18 January, 1819 (f. 171). Letter of John Ballantyne to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine regarding 'Pontefract Castle', 1819 (f. 173), published in the issue of November, 1819. Letter of Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret to a printer or publisher, regarding the printing of his translations of Scott's novels and the necessity for absolute secrecy, 1822 (f. 180). Letter of Scott to Sir James Mackintosh, 1828 (f. 186). Letter of Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Bart., to John Gibson, W.S., 1832 (f. 201). Letter of William Erskine, the Orientalist, to Cadell and Davies, recommending the poems of a lady, probably Anne Bannerman, for publication 1799 (f- 204). (xviii) Letter of William Thomson, miscellaneous writer, 1801 (f. 206). (xix) Letter of Henry Mackenzie to Samuel Rose, Barrister, regarding the legal studies of his son, afterwards Lord Mackenzie, 1802 (f. 208). (xx) Letter of John Home, author of Douglas, to John Home, Substitute Keeper of the Signet, 1802 (f. 210). (xxi) Letters of George Thomson to Charles Stuart, Secretary of the Legation, Vienna and draft letter of Stuart to Mr. Broughton, 1803, on Thomson's affairs with Haydn (f. 212). Letter of George Thomson to William Gardiner, Leicester, on the publication by Purdie of melodies of which Gardiner claimed the copyright, 1825 Letter of Thomas Stothard to Thomson, regarding a picture, 1827 (f. 219). (xxii) Letter of R. H. Cromek to Mr. Tartt, Liverpool, 1809 (f. 221). (xxiii) Letter of Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 1810 (f. 223). (xxiv) Engraved caricature, c1819, relating to opposition made by the Scotsman (in the form of a mad bull) to the candidature of John Wilson, of Blackwood's Magazine, for the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh (f 225) (xxv) Letter of Sir Humphry Davy to Captain Basil Hall, 1820 (f. 226). (xxvi) Letter of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers to the Rev. T. R. Malthus, 1821 (f 228) (xxvii) Correspondence, etc., of Thomas Carlyle, 1821-60. Letters to Carlyle from John Aitken Carlyle, 1821, 1831, 1834-7 (f. 230). Letters of Carlyle to Spring-Rice, 1843 (f. 246); to the Rev. William Hanna, 1849, 1852(ff. 248, 253); to James Mackenzie, W.S., 1852 (f. 250); to an unknown correspondent, discouraging him from writing poetry, 1856 (f. 255); to his sister Jean, 1857 (f. 257); to Thomas Ballantyne, 1860 (f. 261). Proof-sheet of Frederick the Great, Lond., 1858-65, with corrections in Carlyle's hand (f. 259). (xxviii) Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, 1825, 1841, 1845, n.d. (f 263). They include one to Edward Sterling, father of John Sterling, on the latter's tragedy Stratford, 1841 (f. 265); one to Henry Taylor, on his review of Wordsworth's sonnets in the Quarterly of December, 1841, with a note on copyright 1841(f. 267): and one in which he speaks of printing the Master of Sincliar's Memoirs with Scott's notes, 1845 (f. 269). (xxix) Letters of Joseph Hume, MP, probably all to Thomas Hodgskin , the economist. 1824, 1835, 1838, 1846 (f. 272). (xxx) Three poems in the autograph of James Hogg (f. 278): 'In Memory of Mr Robert Anderson', enclosed in a letter to Anderson's father, Adam Anderson, 1828, 'Good Night and Joy' and 'Mary Gray'. (xxxi) Harsh description of the Rev. Edward Irving's matter and manner, communicated according to a note, by Sir John Carr to Charles Matthews, nd. (xxxii) Letters of Peel on church patronage in Scotland, [1832] (f 283), possibly to Alexander Pringle of Whytbank, among whose correspondence it was acquired (see above, f 160-200). (xxxiii) Letter of David Wilkie to John Marshall of Headingley, regarding the picture of Napoleon and the Pope commissioned by the latter, 1835 (f 285) (xxxiv) Letter of Thomas De Quincev to Jolin Wilson, 1838 (f. 287}. (xxxv) Sermons or other devotional writings in the language of Old Calabar, by Reverend William Anderson, 1853 (f. 289); copy made by Anderson in 1873 from a poem on the Reform Bill written on a corn-box in a stable in 1832. from Anderson's papers (MSS. 2981-3). (xxxvi) Letter of Eliza Fletcher to Miss Horner, praising the latter's book on Kossuth. 'I'he book is E.O.S., Hungary and its Revolutions, London, 1854 and Miss Horner appears to be Leonard Horner's daughter, Susan._ (xxxvii) Letter of George Eliot, signed Lewes, to an Edinburgh correspondent, 1867 (f 300) (xxxviii) 'A doggerel Allegory of Hemophthisis', by Thomas Davidson (f 302). He sent it in a letter of 1869 to the Rev. James Brown, who printed it in his 'Life of a Scottish Probationer: being a Memoir of Thomas Davidson'Glasgow, 1878, p. 298. (xxxix) 'Random Memories', being R. L. Stevenson's rough draft beginning of an autobiographical work (f. 304), with a typed transcript. He speaks of his birth in Edinburgh, and describes a visit made to Homburg when he was twelve. A fuller version of the portion regarding Edinburgh is published in Sir Graham Balfour, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, London , 1901 vol. i, pp. 50-1. (xl) Letter of ]. M. Barrie to the Earl of Aberdeen, 1923, repudiating the suggestion that he caricatured the Earl in The Admirable Crichton (f. 312).
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NLS Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925 Volume 2
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