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Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
Copies of letters, 1845-1860, of John Connel and John Taylor to relatives in Scotland.
With letter, undated, of William Edmond, to his sister Mrs James McQuat, Balfron, and a family tree of the McQuats.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Correspondence and papers, 1804-1853 and undated, of members of the families of Mungo Park and his brothers-in-law, Andrew and Thomas Anderson.
Includes two formal documents, 1627 and 1659.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, with those of other members of his family, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Correspondence, legal papers, commissions, and genealogical tables of and relating to the Wedderburn and Halkett of Pitfirrane families.
Correspondence of James Steuart, WS, with Charles B Boog Watson.
Concerns "The Bell Family in Dumfriesshire" (1932), and includes genealogical tables.
Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.
With letter, 1902, of Cora Scott-Moncrieff to Ethel Dalziel concerning Sir Joseph Nöel Paton, and genealogical table, undated, of the Hanna and Dalziel families.
Genealogical notes by Donald Whyte on the families of McLamroch, Nicholson or Nicolson, Whyte and Wodrow or Woodrow.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Papers concerning the 10th and 11th Earls of Selkirk and the Selkirk peerage.
Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.
Comprising:
1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family
2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family
3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling
4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.
Papers of Dr Alasdair MacLean, historian and genealogist.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.