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Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11021/1-223
Scope and Contents Correspondence, accounts, diaries, and miscellaneous papers, 1861-1993, largely of and relating to Barberfield Farm, near Haddington, East Lothian. With personal correspondence, accounts, and photographs of Charles Blythe, Farmer, and his family, 1861-1993.Charles Blythe became tenant of Barberfield Farm in 1904 in partnership with his brother-in-law, William Millar, Draper, Tranent. In 1928, Blythe took on the lease of the neighbouring Heatheryhall Farm. Previously, he had been...
Dates: 1859-1993.

Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1812
Scope and Contents

From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.

Dates: 1819-1821.