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NORTH AMERICAN
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RESOURCES
FOR AMERICAN AND CANADIAN STUDIES IN SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH
LIBRARIES
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Edinburgh University Library
Manuscripts
& archives
Manuscript collections
on Canada include:
- Statement of
the relative numbers belonging to the Church of England and to the Dissenters
in the Province of Nova Scotia, Late 18th century
- Collections
of letters relating to Nova Scotia, 1791-1831 [Some from Henry Dundas, Viscount
Melville, relating to the defence of Nova Scotia in the event of war with
America]
- The notes and
papers of Dr Andrew Brown (Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the
University of Edinburgh 1801-1835 and before that Pastor of the Dissenting
Community in Nova Scotia) [these cover the history of North America during
the War of Independence and afterwards (Gen. 154-159). There is also a typescript
of his unpublished History of North America, parts 2-4: 'French settlement
in Canada', 'Settlement of Virginia' and 'Acquisition and settlement of the
middle colonies']
- Letter of Dr
Alexander Carlyle about Canada, 1792
- Letters (44)
of the Earl of Selkirk about the Hudson Bay Company settlement at Red River,
Canada, 1811-19
- Letters written
from Toronto by Sir Daniel Wilson to David Laing , 1855-1877
- Description
of life at Esquimalt in a letter of E L Moss to Miss Cumming, RN Hospital,
Esquimalt, BC, 9 Sept 1873
- Journal by H
G Stewart of a tour in Canada, 1885. [Illus.]
- Letter of J
A Froude about the possibility of Canada's union with America, 10 Oct [1888]
- Letters of Sir
Archibald Geikie [geological material]
- Correspondence
of Arthur Berriedale Keith (1896-1941) [constitutional matters]
- The academic
papers of Dr Philip Wigley (died 1982) [relate especially to USA and Canadian
urban history, Canada and the West Indies, and the Earl of Selkirk (not yet
catalogued)]
- The papers of
Professor George Shepperson (Lecturer in Imperial and American History and
later William Robertson Professor of Commonwealth and American History in
the University of Edinburgh 1948-1986) [include material on the Afro-American
peoples and the black Diaspora generally]
Manuscript collections
on pre-Revolutionary North America and the USA include:
- Description
of Charleston, S. Carolina, in a letter of N. Mathews, 18 May 1680 [Printed
in South Carolina Historical Magazine, LV (1954), 153-159]
- Account of visits
to Boston by the Rev. Francis Borland, 1682-85, 1690-91, 1700-01
- Queries about
Virginia sent by R Wodrow to R Birnie, 1700 · Account of smallpox in Charleston
by L Chalmers, 17--
- Letter of G
Stewart about Patrick McLauren and David Durham who are in S. Carolina, 24
October 1717
- Poems on several
occasions by Archibald Home, Esq., late Secretary and one of His Majestie's
Council for the Provinces of New Jersey, North America' [There are poems of
1733 and 1739. Bookplate of Lord Napier]
- Letter of S.
Mather touching on the state of education and religion in New England, Boston,
28 May 1735 [Printed in HMC. Laing MSS. Vol. 2, p. 240]
- Letter of A.
Malcolm to Professor C. Mackie. New York, 3 July 1738. ['Learning is the worst
cargo that can be brought to America']
- Affairs in
Carolina touched on in three letters of Gabriel Johnston, Governor of North
Carolina, two to Adair and one to 'My Lord', 1743-44; also in a statement
'The case of Gabriel Johnston, Esq., Governor of North Carolina', n.d., probably
1743
- Journal of
David Brainard preacher in Crossweeksung, New Jersey recording conversions
of the Indians, commencing 24 November 1745, 1745-6 [Printed by the SPCK;
see Jonathan Edwards, An Account of the Life of David Brainard (1765), p.
373]
- Mercantile
accounts of Glasgow firms in Maryland and Virginia, 1753 - ca 1830. [Microfilm]
- Order and instructions
to G. Johnstone, Governor of West Florida. Signed by George III, 1763. [With
the oaths administered to 5 officials in the colony]
- Two letters
from P.Sim to J Cumming, New York, 11 October 1`765, 29 December 1766
- 'Copy of an
account laid before the Rt Hon. Lewis, Lord Sondes, Auditor of the Imprests,
30 Nov. 1770', by John Campbell, agent for the province of Georgia, 1765-75
- Enquiries about
Florida in a letter of J. Bowman, junior to R. Oswald, 1768. Letter of J.
Bowman about his son's visit to America, 1770
- A letter from
A. Dalzel which mentions a clergyman and a Philadelphia professor 'come over
upon a begging embassy, 1774
- Letters from
Patrick Ferguson describing early incidents in the fighting against Washington
at Brandy Wine, etc. in 1776 - also a copy letter from T. Butler to Captain
Douglas describing the naval battle on Lake Champlain in 1776
- Facsimile of
the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 · 'Proceedings of His Majesty's
Commissioners appointed in pursuance of an act of Parliament, of the eighteenth
year of His Majesty's reign, to treat, consult and agree upon the means of
disquieting the disorders subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations
and provinces in North America.' 1776-79 [Partly in the hand of Adam Ferguson,
the secretary. 365 pp]
- References
to the War of Independence in letters of Alexander Oswald, 1776-77
- The Battle
of Saratoga referred to in a letter of Viscount Stormonth to Baron Auckland,
11 December 1777
- Three letters
of Lt Colonel P Ferguson about the War of Independence, 1777-78
- An American
privateer mentioned in a letter of Mrs E Lindsay, 27 August [1778]
- 'Remarks on
the present state of affairs between Great Britain and America' relating to
the effects of the War of Independence on Britain's trade, etc. Ca 1780?
- War with America
described in a letter of Francis Dundas to his brother Robert Dundas, Wilmington,
North Carolina, 23 April 1781
- Letter of R.
MacKinley to J. Cumming, Woodside, 2 October 1781 [Sends his journal 'written
on the bark of the Birch tree, which I was often under the necessity of doing
while in the woods of America']
- War with America
mentioned in a letter of P. Campbell, 6 December 1782
- Petition to
the King by the settlers in West Florida, mentioned in a letter of A. Dalzel,
1783
- History of
North America during the War of Independence and afterwards. By Andrew Brown,
Professor Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh, 1801-1835
- Account of
some curiosities presented to the Edinburgh Royal Society by Andrew Graham,
1787
- Letter of Benjamin
Franklin to J. Lining, 1757 [Transcript]
- American geology
discussed in the correspondence and notes of Sir Charles Lyell. Ca 1842-1852
- Traditions
of the tribe of the Chickasaws about the former disconnection of the Red River
and Mississippi, told in a note of Dr W Carpenter to Sir Charles Lyell, New
Orleans, 5 March 1846
- Correspondence
of various Glasgow cloth merchants about trade with Mexico, New Orleans, Valparaiso,
etc. 1831-1838
- The archive
of Sir Donald Tovey, Professor of Music 1914-1941 [includes several letters
relating to Tovey's visits to the USA and Canada]
Microform &
audiovisual collections
Microform collections
on the USA include many Afro-American and labour journals, among which are:
- Alexander's
magazine (1905-1909)
- Colored American
magazine (1900-1909)
- Half century
magazine
- Industrial
worker (Spokane) (1909-1913)
- Lafollette's
magazine (1909-1929)
- The messenger
(1917-1928)
- Negro world
(1925-1933)
- New day (1940)
- Opportunity
(1923-1940)
- Proceedings
of the International Workers of the World Conventions, 1-10 (1905-1916)
- Southern worker
- Southern workman
(1872-1939)
- Tuskegee Institute
proceedings (1898-1936)
- United automobile
worker (1936-1947)
- US Socialist
Party National Convention minutes (1912)
- Voice of the
negro (1904-1907)
- Weekly people
(1891-1901)
- Workingman's
advocate (New York) (1833-1835)
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