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Papers of the family of Gordon of Halmyre and Gordonstoun, including correspondence, catalogues of books, commissions, financial papers and legal papers.
Papers of the family of Graham of Airth.
Includes papers of related families including Stirling of Ardoch and Strowan, a family bible and printed material.
Papers of the family of Scott Plummer of Sunderland Hall.
Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.
Papers of the Wauchope of Niddrie family, including letters and receipts.
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.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
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.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
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).