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Business correspondence of Francis Brodie.

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Identifier: Acc.7692
Scope and Contents

Being letters received from clients and other lawyers.

Dates: 1822-1828.

Business correspondence of John Campbell of the Citadel, Writer to the Signet, and his son John A Campbell, Writer to the Signet.

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Identifier: MS.10788
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The letters, many of which are from other lawyers, concern the financial and other affairs of the Campbells' clients.

Dates: 1773-1849, undated.

Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates: 1636-1963.

Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6660-7000
Scope and Contents

This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.

Dates: 1778-1841.

Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.

Calendar written by Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh; and a poem on the calendar usually attributed to Seán Ó Dubhagáin, followed by various medical texts, with some charms and folk cures.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.33
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in the following hands.A. Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh, cf. folio 1 verso.B. Donald Beaton, cf. page 84.C. Anonymous. Related in style to hand of Christopher Beaton, National Museum of Scotland H.MCR 40. D. Neil Beaton, cf. pages 33-34 and Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 65 verso.E. Donnchadh Albannach Ó Conchubhair (1571-1647), cf. Adv.MS.73.1.22.F. Anonymous.G. Malcolm Beaton (flourished...
Dates: [Circa 1538], 1593-1596, undated.

Carbon copy of letter of Seymour de Ricci to Glasgow University Library.

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Identifier: Acc.10020
Scope and Contents

Concerns the work of Colard Mansion.

Dates: 1916.

Card and letter of Constance Gordon-Cumming.

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Identifier: Acc.11040
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Concerns Cumming`s support for Christian missions in China.

Dates: 1897-1901.

Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.

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Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents

Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.

Dates: 1923-1929.

Caricature, undated, probably by J G Lockhart

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Identifier: Acc.10010
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1955, of Marion Lochhead and other correspondence concerning the caricature.

Dates: 1955 and undated.

Carmichael and Gordon papers.

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Identifier: MS.109
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'The nativite of bairnis' of William, 7th Lord Forbes, and his wife Elizabeth Keith, being the names and dates of birth of their sixteen children (folio 1);(ii) Orders issued by Colonel Robert Montgomerie protecting Robert Gordon of Straloch and exempting him from any 'monthly maintenance' in accordance with the decision of the Estates of Parliament, 1649 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of Robert Gordon of Straloch to the Marquess of...
Dates: 1649-1779, undated.

'Catalogue of Books belonging to Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, Baronet, 1743.'

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Identifier: MS.3804
Scope and Contents

With a valuation, 1777, by John Bell, bookseller, Edinburgh, at £50 (folio vii); letters of Alexander Guthrie (presumably the Edinburgh bookseller) making the books over to Archibald Constable, and of Constable transferring the purchase to John Clerk, 1801 (folio i); and a drawing by Walter Geikie, 1825, from a portrait of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet, 1621.

The earliest catalogue hitherto known is that printed for the sale by J G Cochrane in 1816.

Dates: 1743-1825.

Charters concerning the lands of Fawside near Tranent.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9261
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning the family of Grant of Monymusk and Grant-Suthie of Balgonie.

With a letter, 1750, of Thomas Reid.

Dates: 17th century to 19th century.

Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.

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Identifier: Acc.13602
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.

It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.

Dates: 1989-2009

`Chronicle of Perth`, 1210-1668, also known as Mercer`s Chronicle and Fleming`s Chronicle, with other documents relating to the burgh of Perth.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.4
Scope and Contents

The `Chronicle` was compiled probably between 1600 and 1668 by more than one person. Though attributed to John Mercer, town clerk of Perth, only the latter part appears to be his work. From 1660 it is almost entirely a register of burials.

Other items in the volume are a fragment of a legal memorial, circa 1597, concerning the foundation of the King James VI Hospital in Perth (folio 1), and a group of letters concerning Royal Burgh affairs (1614-1628), all copies (folio 20).

Dates: ?1600-1688.

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Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 130
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 69
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 64
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 47
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 43
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Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 33
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 32
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 29
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 26
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 25
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 24
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 21
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 19
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 19
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 18
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 18
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 18
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 18
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 17
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 17
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 16
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 16
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 16
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 16
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 16
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 16
Saltire Society 16
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 16
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 15
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 15
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice, 1773-1850 15
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 14
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 14
Stuart, Charles, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845 14
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 14
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 13
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 13
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 13
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 13
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 13
Raffalovich, Marc André, poet, 1864-1934 13
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 13
Ballantyne, James (printer) 12
Campbell, Thomas (poet) 12
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 12
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 12
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 12
Brewster, Sir David, Knight, natural philosopher and academic administrator, 1781–1868 11
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 11
Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 11
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 11
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 11
Wilson, John, author and journalist, pseudonym Christopher North, 1785-1854 11
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 10
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 10
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 10
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 10
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 10
Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, novelist and biographer, née Wilson, 1828-1897 10
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 10
Soutar, William (poet) 10
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 9
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 9
Chalmers, George, antiquary and political writer, ? 1742-1825 9
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 9
Flint, Sir William Russell, Knight, artist, 1880-1969 9
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 9
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 9
Scottish National Party 9
Baillie, Joanna (playwright and poet) 8
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 8
Blackie, John Stuart, Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh, 1809-1895 8
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 8
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (statesman, Lord Chancellor) (1778-1868) 8
Carlyle, John Aitken, physician, 1801-1879 8
Graves, Robert Ranke, poet and author, 1895-1985 8
Hume, Joseph, politician, 1777-1855 8
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 8
Mare, Walter John de la, poet and author, 1873-1956 8
Martin, Theodore, Sir, Knight (author) (1816-1909) 8
National Library of Scotland 8
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 8
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 8
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 8
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 8
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 8
Thomson, William, Baron Kelvin, 1824-1907 8
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 7
Bold, Alan Norman, poet, writer, critic and artist, 1943-1998 7
Cadell and Davies, Edinburgh, publishers 7
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 7
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 7
Church of Scotland 7
Combe, George (Writer to the Signet, phrenologist) 7
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 7
Dalrymple, Sir Hew Whitefoord, 1st Baronet, General, 1750-1830 7
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 7
Lindsay, Maurice, poet and writer, 1918-2009 7
Lines Review, Scottish poetry journal 7
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