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Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).

 File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates: 17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Papers of James P M Millar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5695
Scope and Contents

Concerning his work for the Labour College movement, and the General Strike in Edinburgh, 1926.

Dates: 1913-1946 and undated.

Papers of John W Stewart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9921
Scope and Contents

Concerning Stewart`s service in Gambia.

Dates: 1939-1953.

Papers of the Wauchope of Niddrie family, including letters and receipts.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14236
Scope and Contents

Letters, invoices and accounts relating to various members of the Wauchope family, including letters of Andrew Wauchope, 1729, and James Wauchope, 1742; invoices for washing, sewing and works to the house at Niddrie; receipts for items including a gold watch and a marble fireplace; and an account for food, drink and other miscellaenous items.

Dates: 1729-1780.

Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).

 File
Identifier: MS.1888
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.

Dates: 1739, 1745, undated.

Papers relating to the military service of Lieutenant Walter R Cuthbert, RFA, in Mesopotamia and India.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12808
Scope and Contents

Includes a list of photographs taken in Mesopotamia, papers connected with Cuthbert`s post-war claims for arrears of pay and allowances, a receipt from British Empire Union and copies of sketches by Mrs Cuthbert (Wendy Wood) made during her husband`s RFA training.

Dates: 1918-1919.

Records of East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13285
Scope and Contents

Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

Dates: 1921 - 2001

Records of the Saltire Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13562
Scope and Contents

The Society was founded in 1936 and its aims are to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage every new development which can strengthen and enrich Scottish cultural life.

Dates: 1967-2013

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

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Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 30
Receipts. Financial records. 28
Receipts. Financial records 14
Correspondence. 13
Accounts. 10
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Poetry. 9
Copies. Derivative objects. 8
Lists. 7
Notes. 7
Drafts. Documents. 5
Invoices. 5
Petitions. 5
Financial records. 4
Legal documents. 4
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 4
Printed materials. Object genre. 4
Reports. 4
Speeches. Documents. 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Declarations. 3
Discharges. Legal Documents. 3
Fragments. 3
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 3
Memorials. Legal documents. 3
Orders. Records (documents). 3
Songs. Musical compositions. 3
Abstracts. Summaries. 2
Account books. 2
Agreements. Legal instruments. 2
Articles. 2
Bills of lading. 2
Business records. 2
Charters 2
Charters. 2
Cheques. 2
Contracts. Agreements. 2
Depositions. Testimonies. 2
Documents. 2
Engravings. Prints. 2
Genealogies. 2
Instructions. Document genre. 2
Inventories. 2
Manuscripts. 2
Microfilms. 2
Minutes. Legal documents. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Portraits. 2
Registers (lists) 2
Signatures. Names. 2
Transcripts. 2
Typescripts. 2
Warrants. Permissions. 2
Abridgements. Versions of documents. 1
Accounts of intromissions. 1
Advertisements. 1
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Bibliographies. 1
Bills. Legal Instruments. 1
Bonds of association. 1
Bonds of relief. Legal instruments. 1
Bonds. Legal instruments. 1
Bookplates. 1
Booksellers and bookselling 1
Certificates. 1
Charges. Legal instruments. 1
Chartularies. 1
Cheque books. 1
Claims. Legal documents. 1
Covers (gathered matter components). 1
Decrees 1
Decrees arbitral. Legal instruments. 1
Decrees of declarator. Legal instruments. 1
Diaries. 1
Disposition and assignation. Legal instruments. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Estimates. Financial records. 1
Excerpts. 1
Extracts. 1
Family papers. 1
Forgeries. Derivative objects. 1
Gambia. Africa. nation. Longitude: -15.5000. Latitude: 13.5000. 1
Histories. 1
Holographs. Autographs. 1
Indexes. Reference sources. 1
India. Asia. Subcontinent. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
Indictments. Legal documents. 1
Indulgences. Documents. 1
Instruments of resignation. Legal Instruments. 1
Instruments of sasine. Legal instruments. 1
Invitations. 1
Leaflets. 1
Leases. Contracts. 1
Ledgers. Account books. 1
Letters of horning. Legal Instruments. 1
Letters of inhibition. Legal instruments. 1
Litanies. Prayers, documents. 1
Manifestoes. 1
Memorandums. 1
Memorandums. Legal documents. 1
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Language
Undetermined 22
English 18
Multiple languages 2
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
Polish 1
 
Names
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 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
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841 1
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Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 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
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
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, painter, 1786-1846 1
James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh, printers 1
John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 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
Nicholas, Donald Louis, editor, fl 1956: collector 1
Ronca, Domenico, carpenter, fl 1853 1
Saltire Society 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Stewart, John William, Fight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, fl 1939-1989 1
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 1
Stuart, Henry Benedict Maria Clement, cardinal and Jacobite claimant to the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones, 1725-1807 1
Stuart, James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, 1688-1766 1
United Incorporation of Mary's Chapel (Edinburgh) 1
University of St Andrews 1
Wauchope, family, of Niddrie 1
Westmacott, Richard, Sir, Knight (sculptor) 1
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