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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Dates:
1712-1947, undated.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Kennel Book, 1797-1926, compiled by James Hunter Rutherford W.S. (adm.1877), of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt. With correspondence, accounts and subscription lists, 1915-1948, of and relating to the Hunt.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13278
Scope and Contents
The main interest of this collection lies in the Kennel Book. Its author, James Hunter Rutherford, was Honorary Secretary of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt and Master of Foxhounds from1915-1926. He was the author of The History of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt, 1775-1910, Edinburgh, 1911. The Kennel Book records every hound that was part of the hunt, its name, parentage and fate.
Dates:
1797-1948
Ledgers and other papers of Lambert Brothers (Edinburgh) Ltd.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10808
Dates:
1901-1993.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:List, 1606, of Scottish nobility (folio 1);Process of apprising of the Bishop of Orkney against Sinclair, 1572 (folio 3);Process of apprising of Sir Thomas Hamilton against Sir Blaise Belmer, 1607 (folio 13 verso);Reduction of a decreet of perambulation obtained by Lord Hay of Yester against the James Heriot of Trabroun, 1572 (folio 21 verso);Registered submission and decreet arbitral, 1614, between...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Letter-book of Field-Marshal George Wade, when "Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Forces, Castles, Forts and Barracks in North Britain".
Item
Identifier: MS.7187
Scope and Contents
The first half of the volume contains Field-Marshal George Wade's orders to various officers concerning troop movements from his arrival in Edinburgh in June 1725 to September 1726, first in connection with the Malt Tax riots, then with movements into summer and winter quarters. This portion also includes records of two courts-martial for desertion, and of a reprimand of an absent officer. This is followed (folio 81) by thirteen letters from Wade to Henry Pelham, Secretary at War, and Lord...
Dates:
1725-1732.
Letters, accounts, newspaper cuttings, and other papers concerning the Western Bank of Scotland compiled by J S Fleming, liquidator of the bank.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.1.13-21.1.14
Dates:
1850-1860.
Letters and accounts, 1647-1658, concerning trade in salt between the Culross estate of Edward Bruce, 1st Earl of Kincardineshire, and merchants in Bremen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7112
Scope and Contents
With other papers, 1668-1669, 1763, 1765.
Dates:
1647-1765.
Letters and accounts concerning the lease of the Upper Library Room in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/9
Dates:
1823-1835.
Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11878
Scope and Contents
Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.
Dates:
1812-1831.
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
File
Identifier: MS.107
Scope and Contents
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Dates:
1720-1733.
Letters and papers of Sir John Hope, 11th Bart., of Craighall and Pinkie.
File
Identifier: Acc.13030
Scope and Contents
Letters largely addressed to Auguste Duvau and E´douard Mounier; with letters from Hugh Hope and other members of the Hope family to European contacts; with an agricultural journal, 1825-1827 and a typescript transcription of another 1807 journal.
Dates:
1801-1844.
Letters and papers of the Fothringhams of Powrie, the 4th Earl of Perth, and the Blairs of Balthayock.
File
Identifier: MS.3288
Scope and Contents
The Blairs and Fothringhams were connected by marriage, and the Earl of Perth had dealings with the Blairs. Many of the letters are addressed to David Drummond, Advocate and Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, who looked after the Earl of Perth's affairs and may be the David Drummond as whose servant the Earl disguised himself when trying to escape in 1688.The contents are as follows.(i) Letters written by Sir Alexander Fothringham of Powrie to his mother, Lady Blair...
Dates:
1632-1786, undated.
Letters and papers relating to the estate of Durris, Kincardineshire.
File
Identifier: MS.137
Scope and Contents
The chief correspondents are Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough [‘Peterborrow’], the owner of the estate through the marriage of the 3rd Earl to a daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser; Samuel Mitchelson, Writer to the Signet, his agent in Edinburgh; and Charles Forbes of Shiels and Charles Irvine of Cults, successively factors on the estate. The letters of the Earl contain nothing but claims for remittances; the papers are the accounts of the estate. The letters throw light on the...
Dates:
1741-1755.
Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).
File
Identifier: MS.50256
Scope and Contents
Estimate, 1852, supplied by R and R Clark, printers, for production costs for a half-crown illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 1).Copy of a memorandum, 1852, between A and C Black and Co and Matthew Urlwin Sears concerning the production of woodcuts for the illustrated edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (folio 2).Letters, 1852-1853, of Matthew Urlwin Sears to A and C Black and Co concerning the production and supply of woodcuts for the illustrated editon of...
Dates:
1852-1853
Letters to, and draft letters of, David Ogilvy, merchant at the Edinburgh Ropeworks, Leith.
File
Identifier: Acc.12526
Scope and Contents
Includes four financial accounts and a letter to Ogilvy`s uncle, Alexander, relating to shipping and merchandise.
Dates:
1786-1788.
Letters to, and drafts of replies of, John Cay, the Convenor of the Finance Committee of the Faculty of Advocates, and other papers.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/12
Dates:
1833-1838.
Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13233
Scope and Contents
Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...
Dates:
1937-1995.
Literary and personal papers of Jo Clifford.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13458
Scope and Contents
Literary and personal papers, c. 1966-2013, of Jo Clifford, comprising mainly playscripts, notebooks and journals. With some earlier family papers including: two travel journals by an unidentified family member, to North Carolina in 1828 and a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1829; First World War letters of Bertram Clifford, grandfather of Jo Clifford.
Dates:
Circa 1966-2013.
Literary correspondence and personal papers of Hubert Peter Morrison, with some related correspondence and editorial papers of Thomas Nelson and Sons, publishers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6932 Box 1(1)-Box 5(7)
Dates:
1906-1971, undated.
‘Lyon in Mourning’, Bishop Robert Forbes`s collection of Jacobite papers, with an index (Adv.MS.32.6.26) by Sir Henry Stewart of Allanton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.32.6.16-32.6.26
Dates:
1746-1775.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Manuscript notes and writings of George Mackay Brown, including journal entries, lists, drafts of a short story, review, and poems.
File
Identifier: Acc.13910
Scope and Contents
Assorted fragments of manuscript writing, including:A list of essays by George Mackay Brown for a proposed collection, 'drawn up with Brian Murray 23 November 1992'.A letter, 1993, from Celtic Cross Press concerning a review for 'A girdle round the moon', by Christopher J Moore, with notes of George Mackay Brown concerning the book written on the envelope.A manuscript draft, Christmas Eve 1981, of a story beginning 'The yellow dynasty it was called'....
Dates:
1979-1992, undated.