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Digital copies of letters of James, Robert and William Low, emigrants in the USA.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13361
Scope and Contents
Digital copies in pdf format of ten letters, 1871 - 1884, of James, Robert and William Low of Forfar, emigrants in New Jersey, Texas and Chicago, with transcriptions of the letters in word and rich text format and family history notes in pdf format.
Dates:
1871 - 1884.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.19
Scope and Contents
The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).
Dates:
1714-1736.