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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.

Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents

The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.

Dates: 1686-1689.

Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.3
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a chronological list of hereditary and other offices under the Great Seal, and the names of those to whom they were granted, from 1499 to 1650 (folio 1);(ii) an inventory of the writs of the lands and barony of Tulliallan arranged chronologically from 1402 to 1536 (folio 25 verso);(iii) notes from writs then in the possession of David Erskine concerning the Earls of Countesses of Buchan and some other peers...
Dates: Early 18th century.