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Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
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.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Genealogical and legal papers.
‘Grant manuscript.’
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.