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Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Six letters of Myles Birket Foster, the painter, to James Tait Black, the publisher, inserted in a copy of "Black's picturesque guide to the Trosachs" by John H Burton (Edinburgh, 1853).
File
Identifier: MS.6403
Scope and Contents
The letters concern the sketches and wood-engravings made by Foster for the illustrations to the 'Guide', and to other work that he was engaged on at the time. There is also an account for the work in connection with the 'Guide'.
Dates:
1852-1853.
Three small groups of private letters and related material.
Series
Identifier: MS.6294
Dates:
1795-1855, undated.
Two journal-letters, of Robert Michael Ballantyne from the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11962
Scope and Contents
Includes two watercolour paintings of the lighthouse, one showing the building from the reef, the other being an interior view; with two other letters of Ballantyne concerning lifeboats, and many later letters of R M Ballantyne, his family and friends.
Dates:
circa 1864-1865.