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Astronomy notes circa 1804
The bound manuscript volume contains notes on 'Astronomy' and 'Spherical Trigon[ometry]'. There are a number of sketches within the notes.
Autobiography and paper on Pygmies of Zaire by Herbert Jenkinson
This is my Story and The Pygmies of Zaire (Congo) Forest, by Herbert Jenkinson, presented by David Truby 1982.
Autograph book of Janet Murray
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Autograph book of John Hutchison ( -1901), minister of Bonnington United Presbyterian Church, Leith
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Autograph letter from George Gleig, Scottish cleric, writer and editor, to Messrs Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh
The autograph letter is dated, Stirling, Scotland, 16th March 1800.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: "Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...".
Autograph letter signed, Adam Ferguson, to John Home, West Lauriston, 9 October 1780
Autograph letters signed by John Stuart Blackie
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...'.
Autograph signed letter from Charles Hotham to Sir Roderick Murchison
Autographs of clergymen
Autographs of clergymen collected by Mrs Macnealy, Wester Auchinloch by Lenzie. Mainly Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, and United Free Church of Scotland ministers.