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Papers of James Robertson, civil engineer, including other papers, chiefly correspondence, of members of his family.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10012/1-12
Scope and Contents
Correpondence, journals, and photographs of James Robertson, civil engineer, with other papers of members of his family. James Robertson worked on the construction of the Port Patrick Railway, Ayrshire, 1859-60, and then in India, particularly on the G I P Railway at Nagpore, Centra Provinces. He returned to Scotland in 1870 and became a partner in the Milnwood Iron Works, Motherwell.The correspondence, which forms the bulk of this collection, consists largely of letters written...
Dates:
1859-1890, undated.
Papers of William Summers Sutherland, missionary in Kalimpong.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13268/1-8
Scope and Contents
Letters, diary, notes and photographs, 1894-1920, of Dr William Summers Sutherland (1856-1924), Church of Scotland minister and missionary, and his wife, Annabella.Sutherland`s first posting as a missionary was to Darjeeling in 1879, later moving to the station at Kalimpong, India. Most of the papers in this archive relate to the two visits made by Sutherland to Bhutan. The first was in 1917, during which Sutherland was involved in the baptism of a Lepcha man. The second took...
Dates:
1890-1919, undated.
Photographs and photocopies from albums illustrating the social life of the Pymm family in India.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12470
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of photographs and papers relating to the career of Thomas Ward-Allan, Superintendent of the Chulas and Bagracote Tea Co Ltd, Dooars, India.
Dates:
circa 1913-1919.
Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.
File
Identifier: Acc.9266
Scope and Contents
Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.
Dates:
1842-1859.