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Correspondence of Alexander Low Bruce, master brewer, with some personal and financial papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11777/1-41
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning Bruce's directorships of the African Lakes Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company, and to Liberal Unionist organisations and activities in Scotland.

The papers, originally contained in a mahogany filing cabinet with alphabetically labelled drawers, is mostly, but not exclusively, Bruce’s personal, rather than his business correspondence, mainly from 1885-1893 and largely concerned with his political and African interests.

Dates: 1858-1893, undated.

Correspondence, reports, lectures and other professional papers of James R Erskine-Murray, electrical engineer and inventor; with some notebooks, diaries and other papers of members of his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5900/1-76
Scope and Contents

Including lecture notebooks, copies of lectures and reports, and drafts of articles.

Dates: 1745-1961.

Family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith, including correspondence, financial papers and bound estate papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.231- is now Acc.7043.
Scope and Contents

Also included are general and literary correspondence, 1863-1933, and some literary manuscripts of Sir Herbert Maxwell, seventh baronet.

Dates: 1673-circa 1947.

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

Financial and legal papers and correspondence relating to the works and literary estate of James Leslie Mitchell, sometimes writing as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, including some personal papers.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10966/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes personal documents, publishing agreements, royalty statements and related correspondence. These papers are mostly concerned with the administration of James Leslie Mitchell's (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) literary estate following his death in 1935, firstly by his wife, Ray Mitchell, and subsequently by his daughter, Rhea Martin.

Dates: 1901-1986.

Five leaves from an autograph album.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5623
Scope and Contents

Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.

With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.

Dates: 1755-1830 and undated.

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.

Formal and legal documents, financial records and correspondence of the Skene family of Pitlour.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8468/1-172
Scope and Contents

Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.

Dates: 1330-1915.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13405
Scope and Contents Papers, 1947-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas. The collection comprises papers, 1947-1977, concerning the death of Douglas, 14th Duke of Hamilton; correspondence, 1954-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton with George, 10th Earl of Selkirk; papers, ca. 1980-1994, relating to his death and the future of the earldom; and personal papers and correspondence, ca. 1950-1985, of Lord Selkirk of Douglas.The correspondence includes letters of several statesmen and other...
Dates: 1947-1994.

Further papers of William Walls.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14364/1-7
Scope and Contents

The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.

Dates: 1845-1992.

`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.15
Scope and Contents

At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.

Dates: 1832-1853.

Jacobite letters and papers assembled by Donald Louis Nicholas.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8611
Scope and Contents Concerning the Pretenders and members of their families, and the Risings of 1715 and 1745.The letters are as follows:1. Letter 17 June 1709 of Prince James Francis Edward, The Old Pretender, to Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Duc de Villars, meréchal de France.2. Letter 28 July 1709 of Mary of Modena, Queen Consort of James II, King of Great Britain.3. Letter 4 May 1711 of The Old Pretender to the Duc de Villars.4. Letter 13 June...
Dates: 1709-1793, 1821, 1824 and undated.

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Correspondence. 157
Letters. Correspondence. 60
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Estate records. 20
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Lists. 18
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Diaries. 13
Minute books. 11
Notebooks. 11
Articles. 10
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Publications. 9
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Microfilms. 6
Annual reports. 5
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Saltire Society 6
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 2
Farquhar, Ronald Middleton, Minister of Monigaff, 1929-1986 2
Forbes, family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo 2
Gordon, family, of Halmyre and Gordonstoun 2
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MacTaggart, Sir William, Knight, painter, 1903-1981 2
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 2
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston 2
Stuart Forbes, family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo 2
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 2
African Lake Company Limited, logistics and shipping 1
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 1
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Argyll Publishing (Glendaruel) 1
Associated Shipwrights Society, Leith Branch 1
Balerno Paper Mill Company, Midlothian 1
Baring, Lady Harriet Mary, 1st wife of 2nd Baron Ashburton, née Montagu, 1805-1857 1
Baring, Louisa Caroline, 2nd wife of 2nd Baron Ashburton, née Stewart-Mackenzie, 1827-1903 1
Baring, William Bingham, 2nd Baron Ashburton (succeeded 1848), 1799-1864 1
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 1
Beneficent Society of Bo'ness 1
Blair, family, of Adamton 1
Border Counties Co-operative Conference Association 1
Bruce, Alexander Low, Deputy-Chairman of William Younger and Company, brewers, 1839-1893 1
Caithness Flagstone Co 1
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 1
Carlyle, John Aitken, physician, 1801-1879 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 1
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841 1
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 1
Church of Scotland 1
Clinton, Margery (ceramist) 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Archibald Douglas, Knight, Captain, Royal Navy, Governor of Burma, 1885-1958 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
David Livingstone Documentation Project 1
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Dunbartonshire Conservative and Unionist Association 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dunn, Ian Campbell, lesbian and gay rights campaigner, townplanner, 1943-1998 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1
Edinburgh Christian Council for Overseas Students 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
Elliot, Arthur Ralph Douglas, Hon (politician and journalist) 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Gerry, James, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gerry, William, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877 1
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877: recipient 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Graham, family, of Airth 1
Grant, Margaret Gordon Macpherson, of Aberlour, fl 1848-1878 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Gray, family, of Carntyne and Anstruther 1
Gray, family, of Kilmany 1
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, nobleman and aviator, 1903-1973 1
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Hay, family, of Hayfield 1
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, painter, 1786-1846 1
Henderson, R R Gore-Brown-, Balerno, fl 1967: collector 1
Hibernian Football Club, Edinburgh 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Imperial British East Africa Company, land manangement company 1
Innerleithen Co-operative Society, 1854-1969 1
Irvine, Archibald Clive, medical missionary, Kenya, 1893-1974 1
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 1
J and R Glen, highland bagpipe makers 1
James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh, printers 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 1
Lothians Coursing Club 1
MacIntyre, Robert Douglas, President of the Scottish National Party, 1913-1998 1
MacTaggart, Fanny Margarethe Basilier, wife of Sir William, painter, née Aavatsmark, d 1981 1
MacTaggart, Hugh Holmes, mechanical engineer, fl 1872-1925 1
Macdonald, John (Lieutenant-Colonel, military engineer, son of Flora Macdonald) 1
Marr, W A L, India, tea planter, fl 1927-1970 1
Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, 7th Bart., of Monreith, 1845-1937. 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McLean, Allan Campbell, novelist, 1922-1989 1
McTaggart, William, painter, 1835-1910 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Millar, James Primrose Morton, General Secretary of the National Council of Labour Colleges, 1893-1989 1
Milne, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Inveresk, Admiral, 1806-1896 1
Milne, Sir David, Knight, Admiral, 1763-1845 1
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 1
Murray, James Robert Erskine-, physicist, 1868-1927 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Independent Order of Oddfellows 1
National Union of Mineworkers, Fife Area 1
New Club, North Berwick, golf club 1
Nicholas, Donald Louis, editor, fl 1956: collector 1
North Berwick Golf Club 1
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