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Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
Documents from papers associated with the son and daughters of Allan Ramsay and others.
Documents relating to Lanarkshire, chiefly concerning the parish of Carluke.
The collection includes documents, 1694-1695, concerning the recruiting of troops in Lanarkshire (folio 14), statements, 1694, used in a lawsuit between members of the Forrest family of Braidwood over a question of thirlage (folio 9), and other legal, family, and parish papers.
Douglas of Springwood Park Papers.
Being family correspondence and legal papers of Sir John J Scott Douglas, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Scott Douglas.
Draft Deposition and Settlement of Sir William Maxwell of Monreith.
Drafts of deeds, apparently used as a style book for deeds and other writs.
‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’, a register of correspondence of State, including contemporary copies of royal letters.
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. I. State Papers, part I (F.R.184)
Estate and personal accounts, 1893-1933, possibly of Perthshire provenance.
With draft deeds drawn up by Russell and Dunlop, "Drafts 1917 A-E".