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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.
Copies of letters of John C Hooper to his parents, during his time in the Boer War.
Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
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.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Manuscript containing minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804) and letter book, 1816-January 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet, and father-in-law of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy).
Microfilm of correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Microfilm of Peninsular War papers of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Minute-books of the committee of Larkhall Miners’ Association kept by the general secretary, Robert Smillie.
The committee met weekly, but the minutes for the period 22 June 1891-24 October 1893 are missing.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.