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Letters and other documents received by the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
Letters and other papers chiefly of or concerning David Livingstone, including letters to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite.
The Braithwaites were a Quaker merchant family from Kendal, friends of Robert Moffat and his son-in-law David Livingstone. One, Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, was a barrister and acted as Livingstone's legal adviser. Livingstone's own letters to him and other members of the family have been dispersed (some are now in MSS. 10768 and 20312). These volumes contain other correspondence and papers, but chiefly concern Livingstone and his letters.
Letters and paper concerning place names in Aberdeenshire, used by George Chalmers in the compilation of his topographical dictionary.
The Dictionary was to have formed a supplement to George Chalmers's ‘Caledonia’, but was never published.
Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Much of the correspondence is personal or concerns Anderson`s historical work, but some is of a legal or financial nature. Folios 154-158 consist of invitations to funerals.
Letters and papers collected by Mr J R N Macphail, Kings Counsel, Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan.
Letters and papers, including a specimen printed sheet, 1784, concerning the New Musical Type devised by Samuel Arnold for his edition of the works of George Frideric Handel.
Letters and papers of Alexander Robertson of Strowan, the Jacobite.
Strowan`s own letters mostly concern his financial and legal affairs, but among those addressed to him are some from the Earl of Mar, written during and after the Rising of 1715, and from John Hay, Duke of Inverness. The papers also concern Strowan`s part in the Rising, and the pardon granted to him in 1731.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, General Sir George Murray.
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1810-1817, of, to, and concerning, General Sir George Murray, including two letters from Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington; with a notebook in Sir George's hand, chiefly concerning the Peninsular War (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and legal papers, 1824-1825, concerning Erskine v Murray (folio 29); (iii) Letter, 1845, of Sir George Murray probably to General Paul Anderson (folio 70).
Letters and papers of David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.
The letters, which are mostly from George Henry Hutton and other antiquaries, concern the publication of chartularies and the compilation of a history of Scottish religious houses. There are also manuscript and printed copies of Buchan`s speeches to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1784-1785, 1787 (folio 76).
Letters and papers of Henry Mackenzie, author of 'The man of feeling'.
Letters and papers of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’.
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
Letters and papers of the family of Stewart of Newton, afterwards Stewart of Lochrig.
The letters and papers deal chiefly with family matters; some describe the doings of officers of the 7th Dragoons and 56th Foot.
Letters and papers of the Urquhart family of Burdsyards, in Morayshire, together with some legal documents, chiefly from the parish of St Fergus, Aberdeenshire.
Letters and papers of Thomas Borthwick concerning the Greenock Articulation School for deaf children, of which Borthwick was Secretary.
The contents include a number of letters to Thomas Borthwick from Alexander Graham Bell concerning the school and the education of the deaf in general.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself 'William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern', law genealogist, relating to the family of Innes of Stow.
Included are: papers relating to the claim of George Innes and Gilbert Innes of Stow as creditors of Archibald Chessells, wright, Edinburgh, 1767-1804 (folio 2); papers of Gilbert Innes and Jane Innes in connection with the trust of David Littlejohn, Jamaica, and legal papers of Jane Innes of Stow, 1811-1834 (folio 30); papers relating to certain claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow, 1851-1857 (folio 85).
Letters and papers relating to church and school affairs in the Parish of Roxburgh.
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
Letters, chiefly of the first two Viscounts Melville and other Dundases.
Letters chiefly of, to, or concerning David Livingstone and his wife; and other papers.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.