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Factor`s accounts for William Murray of Touchadam, with his tenants crops.
File
Identifier: Acc.6045
Dates:
1738-1739.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
Farm journal of Broomhall Park, Kelso.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6408
Scope and Contents
Written as extracts from letters.
Dates:
1759-1760.
Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.
File
Identifier: Acc.10102
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.
Dates:
1800-1819.
Financial journals of the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund.
Series
Identifier: F.R.425-F.R.428
Dates:
1830-1939.
Financial papers of the Incorporation of St Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh, including vouchers, accounts and legal papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8617/1-20
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1601-1803, 1818, 1853, 1869.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Formal documents from the Banff Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.7677-7697
Scope and Contents
The 17th century documents relate to members of the Fordyce family, in Auchencrieff; most of those of the 18th century concern persons dwelling in Banff and its neighbourhood; and most of those of the 19th century are accounts of the Banff Town Council.
Dates:
1614-1825.
Four documents, 1711, 1724, 1741, concerning Islay.
File
Identifier: Acc.6696
Scope and Contents
Including a rental, 1741.
With notes on the family of Campbell of Otter, 19th century.
Dates:
1711-circa 1899.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Dates:
1712-1947, undated.
Genealogical and legal papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Copy of `Appeal to the House of Lords, George Udny v. John Henry Allat or Udny and William Skinner: Supplemental Joint Appendix [list of interlocutors in the case and genealogical tree of the family of Udny of Udny]’, London, 1866. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) Printed list of witnesses in the trial of Thomas Hardy, indicted for High Treason, 1794. The names of the witnesses are annotated, e.g. `L.C.S.` [London Corresponding Society], `informer`, etc. (Folios 12-15.)(iii)...
Dates:
1794-1866.
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
Haberdashery account of Allan Ramsay to Sir Robert Menzies.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12369
Dates:
1717-1718.
Household account relating to Mary Queen of Scots at Amboise, framed and glazed.
Item
Identifier: Dep.338
Dates:
4 February 1552.
Household accounts of James Bertram, brewer in Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.27.6.1
Dates:
1787-1834.
Household and personal accounts of an Edinburgh resident.
Item
Identifier: MS.9480
Scope and Contents
Expenditure is arranged by headings such as Clothing, Fuel, Food, Presents, etc. The compiler was probably a schoolmaster as the volume contains a list of boarding and miscellaneous charges for Master Peter Gordon, 1812-1813.
Dates:
1807-1814.
Illustrated log books of the yachts ‘Norma’ and ‘Coquette’, of cruises off the West Coast of Scotland, and also to Brittany and the Channel Islands. Both yachts were owned by Sir Thomas Newnham Deane (1828-1899), an Irish architect. The logs were probably written by his friend, Joseph Manley Todd. They are illustrated with delightful, often humorous, pen and wash drawings by Deane of the party and places they visited.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13216
Dates:
1868-1880.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
Journal and account book of Mrs Burton-Sayers` work party.
File
Identifier: Acc.11999
Dates:
1940-1941.
'Journal book of Francis Ronaldson Surveyor to the General Post Office Edinburgh.'
Item
Identifier: MS.10687
Scope and Contents
Francis Ronaldson was appointed Assistant Surveyor in 1786 and General Surveyor in 1789. His journal book records his many journeys throughout Scotland, inspecting and establishing post offices, investigating complaints, instructing postmasters, and making surveys for the extension of the mail coach services. It also includes his quarterly accounts of expenditure on these journeys. A watercolour caricature of Ronaldson and some biographical notes on him taken from John Kay, ‘A series of...
Dates:
1786-1814.
Journal concerning hunting, shooting and fishing expeditions in Scotland, England and Wales.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10562
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Dates:
1911-1925.
Journal, entitled "Nine Months in Scotland, 1795-96" written by James Shaw, son of Andrew Shaw, Professor of Divinity at St. Mary`s College, St. Andrews and nephew of Professor Hugh Blair.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.15
Scope and Contents
Shaw begins and concludes his stay in Scotland as a guest of Professor Blair in Edinburgh and provides an interesting account of his uncle`s character and activities. Shaw also records his visits to James Townsend Oswald, son of the Right Honourable James Oswald of Dunnikier, the politician, to whom he had formerly been tutor and companion, and to the village of Craigie where his brother Andrew was minister.His personal recollections of friends and relations are interspersed with...
Dates:
1795-1796.