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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

Series

Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27

Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...

Dates: ?1825-1856.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13898

Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

Fonds

Identifier: MSS.21001-21069

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

Item

Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...

Dates: 1750-1802.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers concerning the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and the family of Gordon of Ellon.

Collection

Identifier: Dep.274-is now Acc.12804

Dates: 1495-1959.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.

Collection

Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.11-81.2.38

Scope and Contents

The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.

Dates: 1852-1900.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.

Series

Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30

Scope and Contents The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...

Dates: 1639-1789.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division