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Part of Taylor White Collection
Drawing of a pair of male Southern Cordonbleus from 18th century specimens [modern geographical distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa].
Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
Part of Taylor White Collection
Drawing of a Great Bittern from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: Europe, Asia, and Africa].
Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
To Lady Jane Home. [Early 1755]
Part of David Hume Manuscript Collection
Page 2 blank, page 3 with traces of a seal, page 4 with address.
Marie-Josephte Hertel de Cournoyer (m. François Lefebvre de Bellefeuille)
Miscellaneous papers (8), including undated notes on being held prisoner and the Hertel de Cournoyer estate, a certificate of baptism, a prisoner's oath, a letter of introduction by Benjamin Davis and three letters from Henry Hamilton
Part of Taylor White Collection
Drawing of a immature Horned Lark from a 18th century specimen.
Paillou, Peter, approximately 1720-approximately 1790
Poem written aboard the R.M.S. Franconia
Part of Jonathan Campbell Meakins Fonds
To William Strachan. Edinburgh, 6 October 1756
Part of David Hume Manuscript Collection
Page 2 with traces of a seal, page 3 blank, page 4 with address.
Commission as ensign.
To William Strachan. Edinburgh, 30 April 1757
Part of David Hume Manuscript Collection
Pages 2-4 blank.
Rochefort Expedition Collection
The collection contains an account written by a Major Gilbert of the 1757 Rochefort expedition during the Seven Years' War. During this conflict, known as the Raid of Rochefort, British amphibious troops attempted unsuccessfully to capture the French port of Rochefort on the Atlantic coast.