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Repository Code
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National Library of Scotland
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GB233/MS.3278
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Miscellaneous Documents
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16th century-19th century
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Open
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(i) Letter of William Maitland of Lethington to Dudley, describing Sir Henry Sidney's ambassadorial visit to Scotland and Queen Mary's chagrin at the postponement of her interview with Elizabeth, 1562 (f. i). (ii) Contribution to a Liber Amicorum by William Macdowell, the diplomatist, 1624 (f. 3). (iii) List of all the Acts read and passed in the Parliament of June, 1640 (f. 4) (iv) Supplication of Jean Maclaren, wife of John [McCark], against Alexander Robertson of Inver and other persons, accusing them of robbing and murdering her husband, 1651 (f. 6). (v) Two letters of the 3rd Duke of Hamilton to James Cornwall of Bonhard, giving orders for the militia, 1685 (f. 7). (vi) Remarks on the most effective means of standardizing the Scottish coinage, 1691 (f. 11). See Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1844-75, vol.ix, appendix p160. (vii) Papers relating to a Bank of Credit upon Land-Security, proposed to the Parliament of Scotland, Edin., 1693, by Dr. Hugh Chamberlen, the economist and physician, a printed pamphlet, accompanied by two manuscript objections to the proposal, separately numbered 2 and 3, 1693 (f. 13). (viii) Report and letter describing in some detail the abnormal behaviour of Christian Shaw, daughter of John Shaw of Bargarran, who displayed symptoms of being possessed, and by whose means several persons were convicted of witchcraft, 1697 (f. 27). For an account of the case of 'Bargarran's Daughter', see Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals, Edin., 1858, vol. iii, p167-74 (ix) Copy of a letter of the Earl of Marchmont to Queen Anne, on the appointment of Commissioners for negotiating the Union, 1702 (f. 30). Printed in Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1844-75, vol. xi, p. 26. (x) Minutes of the proceedings in the Scottish Parliament, with receipts for them signed by Walter Riddell, 1703 (f. 32). (xi) Act that civil appointments should be decided by ballot, presented to the Scottish Parliament by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, 1703 (f. 33). Manuscript draft with a printed copy. Cf. Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland,1844-75, xi, pp. 45, 47. (xii) Letter of the 3rd Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Godolphin, on rioting in Edinburgh during the discussion of the proposed Union in the Scottish Parliament, 1706 (f. 36). (xiii) Letter of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, to Lord President Duncan Forbes of Culloden, stating that Sir Robert Munro of Foulis and his brother are acting as mediators for Macdonell of Glengarry, 1716 (f. 38). (xiv) Letter of James Thomson to George Ross, agent of Lord President referring to his play Agamemnon, which has just been received at Drury Lane, and to the recent 'parsonification' of his friend Patrick Murdoch, 1737 (f 40) (xv) Extract from the Parliament of Oceana, Glasgow University, admitting Lord Cardross (afterwards Earl of Buchan) as an Honorary Member, 1761 (f 42); letter of John Knox, the philanthropist, to the Earl of Buchan, on his pamphlet, A View of the British Empire, more especially Scotland, with some proposals for the Improvement of that Country, Lond., 1784, which he was then writing, 1783 (f. 43); anonymous letter to the Earl, proposing a scheme for rescuing the crews and cargoes of wrecked ships, n.d. (f. 44). (xvi) Letter of Colin Maclaurin, Advocate, to the Earl of Buchan, soliciting his patronage for a life of his grandfather, Colin Maclaurin, the mathematician, 1804 (f. 45). (xvii) Letter of Grimr Jonsson Thorkelin, the Danish antiquary, to the Earl of Buchan, 1812, on the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807, the destruction of his library, and the efforts of King Frederick VI to restore the intellectual life of the city (f. 47). (xviii) Letter of James Boswell of Auchinleck to Mrs. Thrale, asking her to transmit to him a few of Johnson's 'admirable sayings' and condemning Hume for his religious scepticism, 1776 (f. 53). (xix) Letter of John Ireland to William Julius Mickle, regarding the publication of Mickle's works and referring particularly to 'The Sorceress', based on a picture belonging to Ireland (see Mickle's Poetical Works, Cooke's ed., Lond., [1799], introd., p. xxv), 1777 (f. 55). (xx) Letter of Adam Smith, the economist, to Sir Grey Cooper, congratulating him on the revenue raised by the Stamp Duties, 1783 (f. 56). (xxi) Letters written by Mungo Park to Thomas Dean, Kayee, 1805 (f. 58) (xxii) Letter of James Hogg to Mrs. Chalmers Izet, on his failure as a farmer etc., 1808 (f. 62). (xxiii) Letter of Hogg to Bernard Barton, thanking him for complimentary verses and for his friendly patronage and announcing a new tragedy 'such as man never made', 1813 (f. 64). (xxiv) Letter of Hogg to John Wilson ('Christopher North') on the unreasonableness of expecting him to leave Ettrick Forest in August, 1829 (f. 66) (xxv) Copy of a letter of Patrick Colquhoun, Lord Provost of Glasgow, to William Blair, surgeon, on the proposed London female penitentiary mentioning the shortage of workhouse accommodation in London, 1809 (f.68). (xxvi) Part of a poem in the hand of Sir David Wilkie, inscribed, 'The following lines were written upon an accidental visit to the Church Yard at Walmer near Deal, 2 Sept., 1802' (f. 69); two letters of Wilkie to Mrs. Coppard, 1811-12 (f. 71); two pages folio, numbered 5 and 6, apparently from a rough draft of an article by Wilkie on the best means for encouraging your artists, n.d. (f. 75). (xxvii) Letter of Wilkie to John Scott, the journalist, on an article about him by the latter, presumably printed in the Champion, 1815 (f. 76). (xxviii) Letter of Henry Weber to Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, chiefly on medieval romances, 1813 (f. 78). (xxix) Letter of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Pearce Gillies, [1813] (f. 80) Printed in the Centenary Edition. (xxx) Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Benjamin Haydon, the painter, 1820-9 (f. 82). All are printed in the Centenary Edition. (xxxi) Letter of Scott to Anne Wagner, Liverpool, 1828, regarding Mrs Veal's ghost and the Rev. John Norris's Collection of Miscellanies (f. 100). (xxxii) Part of a letter of Dorothea Primrose Campbell, author, to Scott describing her extreme poverty, and imploring his aid and forgiveness, nd (f. 102). (xxxiii) Letter of Admiral Sir George Cockburn to Viscount Melville, enclosing a list of : dockers and dockyard officials who voted against the Government in the North Yarmouth election and recommending their dismissal, 1818 (f 105). (xxxiv) Letter of John MacCulloch, the geologist, to Messrs. Rodwell and Martin , offering for publication sketches of scenery in Wales and Scotland, nd (f 116) (xxxv) Letter of Thomas Carlyle to A. Galloway, R. M. College, Sandhurst, remarking on Byron's and Leigh Hunt's magazine, the Liberal, and asking for particulars of a vacancy at Sandhurst, 1822 (f. 117). (xxxvi) Letter of Carlyle to Mrs. Montagu, giving details of his failure to be elected to the chair of Moral Philosophy at London or St. Andrews and denying that he is a mystic, 1828 (f. 119). (xxxvii) Letter of Carlyle to Mrs. Austin, Bayswater, commenting on the death of British reviewing, the solitude at Craigenputtock, and his own inability to write, 1834 (f. 121). (xxxviii) Letter of Carlyle to James Fraser, the publisher, regarding the title page of his 'Chartism', then under publication, 1839 (f. 123). (xxxix) Letters, principally of Carlyle and his wife, to Mrs. Welsh's old servant Betty Braid, with a few written by this last, 1842-74, n.d. (f. 125). There are letters of Geraldine Jewsbury to Betty, describing Mrs Carlyle's death in 1866 (f. 131). Several of Carlyle's letters were written after his wife's death on the anniversary of her birthday. (xl) Letter of Carlyle to John Sterling, written on receipt of the latter's manuscripts of Strafford and Cromwell, 1843 (f. 177). (xli) Letter of Carlyle to Charles Kingsley, 1850 (f. 179). (xlii) Letter of Carlyle to an unknown correspondent, n.d. (f. 180). (xliii) Letter of Joanna Baillie to Mrs. Lawrence, Wavertree Hall, 1831, thanking her for a poem and discussing the reception of her own book, A View of the General Tenour of the New Testament, Lond., 1831 (f. 181). (xliv) Letter of the poet Campbell to Cecllia Siddons on the progress of his biography of Mrs. Siddons, whose letters, he complains, are of little use for his purpose, 1832(1.183). (xlv) Letters of John Gibson Lockhart to Joseph Train, the antiquary, 1832-33 (f 184). In the earlier of these, Lockhart writes of Scott as 'on the verge of repose', and in the later he acknowledges Train's manuscript account of his correspondence with Scott (MS. 3277). Both letters were found loose in that volume. (xlvi) Letter of James Browne, the historian of the Highlands, to William Tait, the publisher, 1835 (f. 188), criticizing the arrangements for a dinner to be given by the Edinburgh Citizens' Society in honour of Daniel O'Connell, 1855 with an article by Browne, entitled 'The Spirit of the Time' (f. 189). (xlvii) Letter of Lord Jeffrey to Mrs. Sydney Smith, regarding a memorial to Smith which Moore has been asked to write, 1845 (f. 190). (xlviii) Letter of David Livingstone to Sir Bartle Frere, on the possibility of establishing trade on the mainland of East Africa, and the induement to merchants offered by the presence of blackwood on the river Rovuma 1864 (f. 192). (xlix) Two letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to R. D. Blackmore, praising Blackmore's novels and describing his life in Samoa, 1889, n.d. (f. 196) (l) Letter signed by R. L. Stevenson to W. E. Adams, of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, requesting to be enrolled in Uncle Toby's Dicky Bird Society, 1894 (f. 199). (li) Letter of Andrew Lang to a reviewer, on his poems, n.d. (f. 202).
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Finding Aids
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NLS Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925 Volume 2
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