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Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.

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Identifier: MS.3248
Scope and Contents

The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.

Dates: 18th century-2nd quarter of 20th century.

Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.9
Scope and Contents The papers, written in many different 18th-century hands, are very mixed and are quite brief. The largest groups are:(i) part (pages 17-32) of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of one of Walter Macfarlane`s assistants, of documents relating to members of the family of Stirling of Keir (folios 23-30); (ii) part of a collection of transcripts, in the hand of another of Macfarlane`s assistants, of royal and other letters to members of the family of Mure of...
Dates: ?17th century-18th century.

Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4290
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family

2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family

3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling

4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.

Dates: 19th century.

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

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Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated