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43 letters addressed to David Roberts.

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Identifier: Acc.11760
Scope and Contents

Addressed to Roberts in London, Spain, Egypt and India by correspondents in Scotland and Spain concerning artistic and social matters.

Dates: 1831-1843.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning Major-General Stair Park Dalrymple.

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Identifier: Acc.9929
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Concerns Dalrymple`s claims for compensation from the Rajah of Tanjore, and other matters of military and family interest.

Dates: 1797-1811.

Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.

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Identifier: Acc.10702
Scope and Contents

Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.

With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.

Dates: 1828-1839.

Letter of Alexander Finlay to Janet Campbell.

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Identifier: Acc.10564
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Describes a visit to Poona, India.

Dates: 1836.

Letter of Jane Dunlop to William Dunlop in India.

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Identifier: Acc.12065
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Concerns social and domestic matters, but also mentions the later work of Sir Walter Scott and the possible loss by fire of letters of Burns to Mrs Dunlop.

Dates: 1826.

Letters, 1814-1817, of Lieutenant James MacAlpine, 8th King`s Royal Irish Hussars.

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Identifier: Acc.13526
Scope and Contents Six letters, 1814-1817, of Lieutenant James MacAlpine, 8th King`s Royal Irish Hussars. Also included is an invitation from Sir Hudson and Lady Lowe to join them for dinner.The letters were written to MacAlpine`s uncle, Robert Leny, a surgeon in Calcutta. MacAlpine had arrived in India as a Cornet, on HMS Sovereign. He fought in the Pindari and Nepal wars, but the letters do not relate to the Nepal campaign. Following his return from India, MacAlpine bought Patrick Miller`s...
Dates: 1814-1817

Letters and copies of letters to Hamish Brown.

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Identifier: Acc.12253
Scope and Contents

Includes Don Johnson`s account of a journey from Land`s End to John O`Groats, 1994, text of a talk by Sir Alasdair T Munro on "Hugh Munro and his Tables", 1994, and Nigel Springett`s account of a visit to India, 1989.

Dates: 1989-1994.

Letters of William Crichton Fyfe, Free Church missionary in Calcutta.

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Identifier: Acc.13758
Scope and Contents Three letters of William Crichton Fyfe, Free Church of Scotland missionary in Calcutta, to his parents, 1844.The letters describe Fyfe`s early experiences in India, where he was employed in education. They cover subjects such as his daily life and work, an extended period of illness, and arrangements for his salary in the aftermath of the Disruption of 1843. During this period, although most missionaries elected to join the Free Church of Scotland, ownership of much overseas...
Dates: 1844.

Papers of and relating to Michael Moncrieff Stuart.

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Identifier: Acc.12824
Scope and Contents

Mainly concerning his life in India and his research into Scotish-Indian history.

Dates: circa 1912-1988.

Papers of James Robertson, civil engineer, including other papers, chiefly correspondence, of members of his family.

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Identifier: Acc.10012/1-12
Scope and Contents Correpondence, journals, and photographs of James Robertson, civil engineer, with other papers of members of his family. James Robertson worked on the construction of the Port Patrick Railway, Ayrshire, 1859-60, and then in India, particularly on the G I P Railway at Nagpore, Centra Provinces. He returned to Scotland in 1870 and became a partner in the Milnwood Iron Works, Motherwell.The correspondence, which forms the bulk of this collection, consists largely of letters written...
Dates: 1859-1890, undated.

Papers of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council relating to Yemen and India.

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Identifier: Acc.10130/1-48
Scope and Contents

Papers, chiefly minutes and committee proceedings, of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council relating to Yemen and India.

Dates: 1939-1987.

Papers of William Summers Sutherland, missionary in Kalimpong.

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Identifier: Acc.13268/1-8
Scope and Contents Letters, diary, notes and photographs, 1894-1920, of Dr William Summers Sutherland (1856-1924), Church of Scotland minister and missionary, and his wife, Annabella.Sutherland`s first posting as a missionary was to Darjeeling in 1879, later moving to the station at Kalimpong, India. Most of the papers in this archive relate to the two visits made by Sutherland to Bhutan. The first was in 1917, during which Sutherland was involved in the baptism of a Lepcha man. The second took...
Dates: 1890-1919, undated.

Photocopy of a letter of John Philip to Andrew Kelly.

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Identifier: Acc.8834
Scope and Contents

Containing reminiscences of army service in Mesopotamia and India from 1916-1920.

Dates: 1934.

Photographs and photocopies from albums illustrating the social life of the Pymm family in India.

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Identifier: Acc.12470
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of photographs and papers relating to the career of Thomas Ward-Allan, Superintendent of the Chulas and Bagracote Tea Co Ltd, Dooars, India.

Dates: circa 1913-1919.

Typescript copies of correspondence between Thomas Goldie Scot, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, in India, and his family in Edinburgh and Moniaive.

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Identifier: Acc.9266
Scope and Contents

Transcribed from the originals, with two photographs of portraits of Thomas Scot, father of Thomas Goldie Scot.

Dates: 1842-1859.

Typescript copy of the journal, 1786, of Clarinda Bruce on a journey to India.

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Identifier: Acc.7897
Scope and Contents

With associated correspondence and a typescript account, 20th century, of the family of Alexander P Trotter.

Dates: 1786-20th century.

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Allan, Thomas Ward-, Superintendent of the Chulsa and Bagracote Tea Company Ltd, Dooars, India, 1888-1950 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan, author and mountaineer, b 1934: recipient 1
Calderwood, Anna, sister of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham, fl 1839 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
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Church of Scotland, Overseas Department 1
Cuppage, Clarinda, wife of Alexander, General, née Bruce, fl 1786 1
Dalrymple, Stair Park, Major-General, d 1805 1
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 1
Dundas, Robert Saunders, 2nd Viscount Melville (politician) 1
Dunlop, Jane, wife of Andrew Vans, Bengal Medical Service, née Fergusson, fl 1826 1
Dunlop, William, Ensign, Bengal Army, 1807-1827: recipient 1
Free Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Committee 1
Fyfe, William Crichton, Missionary in Calcutta, 1818-1884 1
Graham, Douglas Cunninghame, Major, fl 1828-1839 1
Johnson, Don, writer of account of a journey from Land's End to John O'Groats, fl 1994 1
Kelly, Andrew, Glasgow, fl 1916-1934: recipient 1
Laing, Nissa, Edinburgh, fl 1989: editor 1
MacAlpine, James , Lieutenant, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars 1
Munro, Sir Alasdair Thomas Ian, 6th Baronet, of Lindertis, b 1927 1
Neilson, M G C, Edinburgh, fl 1945-1991 1
Pemberton, family, County Durham 1
Philip, John, London, fl 1916-1934 1
Porter, William Archer, tutor and secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore, 1825-1890 1
Pymm, family, India 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Robertson, James, civil engineer, fl 1859-1890 1
Scot, Thomas Goldie, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, b 1820 1
Scot, Thomas, Madras, surgeon, fl 1820 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Springett, Nigel, writer of a account of a visit to India, fl 1989 1
Stuart, Malcolm (Michael) Moncrieff, 1903-1991 (civil servant in India and Pakistan) 1
Sutherland, Annabella Jane, Second wife of William S., Missionary in Northern India, nee Mitchell, fl. 1893-1927 1
Sutherland, William Summers, Missionary in Northern India, 1856-1924 1
Tait, John Guthrie, Principal of the Government Central Office, Mysore, Scottish international rugby cap, 1861-1945 1
Tait, Margaret, researcher, fl 1945-1992 1
Trotter, Alexander Pelham, electrical engineer, 1857-1947 1
Wallace, family, Nairn 1
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