Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 18 of 18
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
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.
Estate and personal accounts, 1893-1933, possibly of Perthshire provenance.
With draft deeds drawn up by Russell and Dunlop, "Drafts 1917 A-E".
Letters to, and draft letters of, David Ogilvy, merchant at the Edinburgh Ropeworks, Leith.
Includes four financial accounts and a letter to Ogilvy`s uncle, Alexander, relating to shipping and merchandise.