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Correspondence and papers of A H E L Holt.
Concerning chiefly Holt`s work as a railway engineer in Iraq, 1916-1932 and undated, and as a soil consultant in Sudan, 1952-1958.
Also includes:
papers and notebooks, 1884-1929 and undated, of his father-in-law, the Reverend E M Macphail
papers, 1880-1907 and undated, concerning the claim by Stewart Soutar Johnstone to the Marquesate of Annandale.
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 Salis Daiches, including some of his wife Flora, son Lionel, and other members of the Daiches family.
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.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and legal papers of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside.
The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.
Correspondence, papers and photographs of Ray Wolff, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
Diaries, financial and administrative papers of Barberfield Farm, near Pencaitland, East Lothian; with some personal correspondence and papers of the Blythe family.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers of the Mure of Caldwell and Bloxham families.
The papers consist of letters and notes on the genealogy of the Mure of Caldwell family, Ayrshire and their relatives the Bloxham family, Banbury, diaries of Catherine Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succ.1776) and legal documents of and relating to the Mures of Caldwell and the Bloxhams.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.