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12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12424
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
Dates:
18th century to 19 century.
Biographical and genealogical notes, mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.18
Scope and Contents
Almost all of the notes are undated, but the press-cuttings are dated 1855.
Dates:
Circa 1855
Copies of press cuttings and other papers and photographs of the Macarthur family, Nairn, Scotland and Manitoba, Canada.
File
Identifier: Acc.11045
Dates:
circa 1850-1890.
Correspondence and papers concerning Maclean families, collected by Dr James Maclean of Glensanda, Younger.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14454
Content Description
Correspondence and papers brought together by Dr. James Maclean of Glensanda, Yr., concerning the history and diaspora of the Clan Maclean, on which he published several books. The papers contain his correspondence with representatives of Maclean families; a collection of papers concerning the Macleans of Kilarrow and Shuna brought together by Alexander Hugh Maclean (d. 1916); a collection of Maclean papers dating from the 18th century; and papers of Sir Harry Aubrey de Vere...
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11627/1-120
Dates:
1863-1978.
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10393-10491
Scope and Contents
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1815-1967, undated.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
File
Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates:
1797-1826, undated.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Dates:
1779-1884.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates:
1561, 17th century-late 19th century.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Dates:
1833-1939, undated.
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.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11193
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
circa 1822-1995.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.954-961
Scope and Contents
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.