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2 letter-books of an unidentified Scottish law firm
The correspondence suggests that this was an Edinburgh-based law practice, with the majority of letters emanating from city addresses.
There are 2 volumes with information on the spines showing: "Letter Book No. 3 - 18th May 1956 - 21st Aug. 1956"; and "Letter Book No. 5 - 9th Dec. 1956 - 31st Mar. 1957".
The volumes came from The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society Ltd., Hope Street, Glasgow. They hold reference numbers: No.5354 Date.1956 & 4525/57
5 x documents: notarial instruments relating to lands in Nether Carlowrie, west of Edinburgh, and in Invertiel, 1528-1566. Marks of 16th century Scottish notaries
5 x documents - notarial instruments - being: Invertiel, 13 November 1528; Nether Carlowrie, 23 January 1529; Nether Carlowrie, 22 June 1535; Nether Carlowrie, 23 February 1540; Nether Carlowrie, 19 April 1566.
At the foot, each document bears a fine penned mark of a 16th century Scottish notary. Old folds, contemporary endorsements.
12 stereo views of Scotland, 1891, B. W. Kilburn, Littleton NH
18th century and 19th century legal documents some in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake
A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen
Account of a trip to the Western Isles and St. Kilda
Manuscript account of a 'Pedestrian tour round the west coast of Scotland in 1849', in August of that year, followed by an account of a 'Trip aboard the Free Kirk Breadalbane yacht with 3 ministers to St. Kilda, Staffa, and back' in 1850.
The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda
Album of playbills, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw
Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups
The collection is composed of: an archive of productions of 'Varsity Vanities', 1946-48, and various dramatic groups including Edinburgh University Dramatic Society, SRC Charities Week Office, Attic Theatre Co., Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, and others.
The material is placed in two photograph albums and a "document store", which contain photographs, programmes, cuttings, posters and correspondence.
Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by James Hogg, being a leaf from the draft for 'Class IV. Dogs'
Autograph manuscript from 'The Shepherd's Calendar', by James Hogg, 1824. It is a leaf from the draft of 'Class IV. Dogs', and is large folio size laid onto paper.
The ms has some Borders stories about dogs e.g. 'the late Mr. Steel's nephew in Peebles had a bitch [...] whose feats in taking home sheep from the neighbouring farms into the market at Peebles by herself form innumerable anecdotes in that vicinity...'.