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A collection of formal documents relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.8486-8492
Scope and Contents

A collection of five formal documents, 1544-1607, relating to the lands of Skeoch, Stirlingshire (Ch.8486-8490), together with an extract, 1711, of an acknowledgement of payment, 1710, by Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (Ch.8491), and a burgess ticket of Campbeltown, 1764, granted to John Walker, botanist (Ch.8492). An inventory is available.

Dates: 1544-1764.

Account book, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5937
Scope and Contents

Including rent receipts for urban property.

Dates: 1828-1836.

Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.9
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.

Dates: 1690-1705.

Acquittance, 1473, signed by James III in favour of Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston

 File
Identifier: Acc.8957
Scope and Contents

With licence, 1509, in favour of Alexander Napier of Merchiston, signed by James IV, to travel to Amiens.

Dates: 1473-1509.

Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1965, undated.

Agreement between Domenico Ronca and Thomas Carlyle and receipt of Ronca to Carlyle.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10582
Scope and Contents

Agreement and receipt concern the keeping of fowl at 6 Cheyne Row.

With letter of Jane W Carlyle to John A Carlyle concerning the building of a client room by Thomas Carlyle.

Dates: 1853.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12384/1-285
Dates: Majority of material found within 1741-1753, 1788-1798, 1801, 1807, 1825-1826, 1836-2004, undated.

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.19
Scope and Contents Letters of:Admiral Lord Ancon (folio 1);George Canning (folio 10);Robert Clive (folio 12);`Alfred Crowquill` (folio 17);Allan Cunningham (folio 18);King Edward VII (folio 23);Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood (folio 27);Warren Hastings (folio 33);George Heriot (folio 35);David Hume (folio 42);Thomas Jefferson (folio 44);Samuel Johnson (folio...
Dates: 15th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Balcarres Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates: 1231-1686, and undated.

Business and personal correspondence with related financial records of W A L Marr, tea planter, India.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.5025/1-9
Scope and Contents

Most of the papers concern his work on the Malayalam, Chembra and Arrapetta tea plantations, but there is also material for the social life of the British in India at the time particularly the Arbuckle Trophy Football Tournament, the Ootacomund Club and the Wynaad Golf Club in the 1960s.

Dates: 1929-1970.

Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-10633
Scope and Contents The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates: 12th century-1910, undated.

Copies of emigration papers of Ernest Robb.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13121
Scope and Contents The collection consists of copies of Ernest Robb`s emigration papers, c. 1900-1972. The papers include a typescript diary of the journey from Plymouth to Australia, an immigration identity card, Ernest Robb`s Australian passport, a receipt of passage`s money, a passenger`s contract ticket as well as photographs of Ernest and his brothers Jock, emigrant to Western Australia, and Bob, emigrant to the USA.Ernest Robb was born in Castlehill cottage, Troqueer, Kirkudbrightshire,...
Dates: circa 1900-1972.

Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12092/1-108
Scope and Contents This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates: Circa 1420-1989, undated.

Correspondence and papers of H H MacTaggart.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8755
Scope and Contents

Concerning MacTaggart`s family and the executry of his father William McTaggart.

Dates: 1877-1972.

Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.2(I)-(VIII)
Scope and Contents

Anderson`s personal affairs, his business interests (as lawyer, factor, and Postmaster-General), and his historical researches (which culminated in the posthumous publication of ‘Diplomata Scotiae’) are all represented.

Dates: 1680-1728.

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Farquhar, Ronald Middleton, Minister of Monigaff, 1929-1986 2
Forbes, family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo 2
Free Church of Scotland 2
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877: recipient 2
Innes, Gilbert James, Gartaneaglais, Killearn, d c 1970 2
MacTaggart, Sir William, Knight, painter, 1903-1981 2
Ogilvy, family, of Inverquharity 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Scottish Working People's History Trust 2
Skirving, Archibald, painter, 1749-1819 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
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Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Abbeyhill Branch 1
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Anderson, Andrew, 1779-before 1871 (mason in Aberfeldy) 1
Anderson, William, 1765-1792 (musician) 1
Argyll Publishing (Glendaruel) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry 1
Associated Shipwrights Society, Leith Branch 1
Balerno Paper Mill Company, Midlothian 1
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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
Bihan, Guy de, French farmer and salesman, called an "Onion Johnnie", fl 1976-2004 1
Blair, family, of Adamton 1
Border Co-operative Society, Galashiels 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
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 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
Church of Scotland, Saltoun Church 1
Clinton, Margery (ceramist) 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Archibald Douglas, Knight, Captain, Royal Navy, Governor of Burma, 1885-1958 1
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 1
Colt, Grace, wife of Robert, of Auldhame, advocate, née Dundas, 1761-1798 1
Colt, Robert, of Auldhame, advocate, 1756-1797 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Crossley, William, II (canal engineer) 1
Cummings, family, of Altyre 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
David Livingstone Documentation Project 1
Davidson, James Lauder, forester, 1916-1992 1
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Douglas, Sylvester, Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, 1743-1823 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
Earlston Co-operative Society 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1
Edinburgh Christian Council for Overseas Students 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company 1
Elliot, Arthur Ralph Douglas, Hon (politician and journalist) 1
Engender (1992-) (women's rights organisation, Scotland) 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Fraser, family, of Lovat 1
Fraser, family, of Strichen 1
Galashiels Co-operative Coal Society 1
Galashiels Co-operative Society 1
Galashiels United Co-operative Society 1
Galashiels Waverley Co-operative Society 1
Galliard Publishing Ltd 1
Gerry, James, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gerry, William, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gibson, Joan (nurse, humanist, and founding member of Engender) 1
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877 1
Gordon, Robert, of Drakies, d c 1826 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Graham, family, of Airth 1
Grant, Margaret Gordon Macpherson, of Aberlour, fl 1848-1878 1
Grant, William, Lord Prestongrange, Senator of the College of Justice, c 1700-1764 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
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