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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
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.
Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.
Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Copy of Robert Spottiswoode, "Practicks of the Laws of Scotland".
Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
Extract, 1557, from the Protocol Book of Henry Strachan, of a cognition and sasine, 1515, in favour of Andrew Allan, in a tenement on the south side of the High Street, Edinburgh.
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Instructions, 1579, of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms, to heralds, and a minute-book of executions, 1608-1609, by Thomas Lamb, Messenger-at-arms.
Letter book of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register.
The topics include the militia, suppression of riots in Glasgow, estate affairs, appointments in the Excise service and advice on points of law. The inverted pages contain opinions on legal cases.
Letter-book of John Ewing, Writer to the Signet, legal agent for the Earls of Morton, concerning the Earls` affairs in Orkney and Shetland.
The correspondence is mostly legal and financial in nature, dealing with the running of the estate, the tenants` accounts, and the supply of butter, beer and malt, but there are some references to contemporary events such as the South Sea Bubble and the threat of a Spanish invasion. There is a break in the correspondence from 1721 to 1730, and some of the later letters are signed R E.
Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.
The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Microfilm of correspondence of, and manuscripts of or concerning, Thomas De Quincey.
Microfilm of correspondence, papers, charters and other formal documents of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and of his son Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, American and West Indian Merchant in London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);
Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).
Microfilm of two letter books, 1767-1774, of the agents in Jamaica and Virginia of William Cunningham and Company, merchants in Glasgow, and of a decreet absolvitor, 1778, for the daughters of Alexander Cunningham against William Macredie of Perceton.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers, 1746, assembled by Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope.
The papers were gathered for use in evidence at the Board of Enquiry into Cope`s conduct as Commander-in-Chief in Scotland before the Battle of Prestonpans and at the battle itself.
Includes an account books of Cope`s concerning the Queen`s Regiment of Dragoons, 1741-1749.