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Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.
Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers of John Skene of Hallyards.
Comprising:
1. account, 1679, of expenses paid by John Skene
2. receipts, 1688, for pay by Skene to the Midlothian Militia
3. two lists, 1678 and circa 1680, of Scottish militia.
Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.
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’.