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Letter-book of Major-General Charles Ross.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.4
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is mainly social in character, with occasional references to his property in Glen Carron.

Dates: 1790-1792.

Letter-book of Richard Coren, Lieutenant-Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

 File
Identifier: MS.8027
Scope and Contents The letter-book, 1751-1762, includes correspondence of Richard Coren and General Humphrey Bland, Governor of the Castle and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in Scotland, the Board of Ordnance, and various army agents in London. The letters concern the financial affairs of the garrison, the repair and improvement of the structure of the Castle (including the construction of the Esplanade), and relationships between the garrison and the town. At the end, inverted, is a series of...
Dates: 1751-late 18th century.

Letter book of Sir Robert H Kennedy, Commissary General.

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Identifier: Acc.9329
Scope and Contents

Concerning his attempts to clear up the Commissariat accounts after the Peninsular War.

Dates: 1816-1822.

Letter-book of the Faculty of Advocates Library.

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Identifier: F.R.339d
Scope and Contents

The letter-book consists of index and letters, and cover issues such as binding, permission to read in the library, accounts, payment receipts, etc.

Dates: 22 January 1906-28 November 1907.

Letter book of the Inverness Courier and two volumes of letters to Dr Robert Carruthers

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Identifier: Acc.10097
Scope and Contents

Includes two volumes of letters to Dr Robert Carruthers, editor of the newspaper.

Dates: 1824-1875.

Letter book of the Royal Aberdeen Volunteers.

 File
Identifier: MS.9363
Scope and Contents

The volume contains copies of correspondence on arms, uniforms, and commissions in the regiment, and copies of the correspondence between Thomas Bannerman, the commanding officer, and the 4th Duke of Gordon, Lord Lieutenant of the county. This includes references (folio 15) to the intended use of the Volunteers to check unrest in the Braemar district in 1787. Also included in the volume are some regimental accounts and a muster roll for 1799.

Dates: 1795-1802.

Letter books containing copies of letters of William Elliot of Wells and the Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Bedford.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1179
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Letter book, February 1807, containing copies of letters of William Elliot and the Duke of Bedford to the Home Secretary, Earl Spencer. (MS.12908);

Letter book, 1806-1807, containing copies of letters of William Elliot to the Duke of Bedford (MS.12909).

Dates: 1806-1807.

Letter books of Admiral Charles Graham, containing copies of his official correspondence and (on the inverted folios) of his orders and memoranda.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9729-9732
Scope and Contents Much of the correspondence is administrative, concerning fitting out ships, obtaining stores, and matters of naval discipline, but also reflect the activities of the navy on the various stations where Admiral Graham served.From June 1829, Graham commanded successively the sloop ‘Philomel’ and HMS ‘Rattlesnake’. The latter ship served on the South American Station until September 1833, and the letters during this period concern the seizure of the British brig ‘Velocity’ by the...
Dates: 1829-1834, 1843-1851.

Letter-books of Lachlan Mackintosh of Raigmore.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6360-6361

Letter-books of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, containing copies of his correspondence, 1819-1837, most of it from the period 1827-1837 when he was Superintendent of the Bombay Marine (Indian Navy).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5899-5900
Scope and Contents

Among the topics dealt with in the official correspondence are the administration of the Navy, hydrographical surveys in Indian seas and rivers, and the use of steamships in the same region and between India and Europe.

Dates: 1819-1837.

Letter-books, sales-books and ledgers of and concerning Alexander Houston and Company, merchants, bankers, and shipowners in Glasgow.

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Identifier: MSS.8793-8800
Scope and Contents

Houston's acted as an ‘entrepôt’ importing sugar, rum, cotton and tobacco from the British West Indies and distributing them to merchants throughout Britain. The return trade consisted of provisions, largely herrings and plantation stores, drawn in from various parts of Britain and occasionally from Western Europe. The papers, especially the letter-books and sales-books, offer a detailed picture of the organisation and price structure of the trade.

Dates: 1729-1798.

Letterbook of General Alexander Hay, kept by his aide-de-camp, Captain Alexander Tayler, during Hay`s command at Aberdeen.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.30
Scope and Contents

The correspondence concerns orders and equipment, and reviews by Hay of the regular troops, fencibles and militia.

Dates: 1797-1801.

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Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh Lodge 2
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Angel Inn, Alnwick 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Seaforth Highlanders 1
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Bryant, Jacob, antiquary and classical scholar, d 1804 1
Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, 1st Baronet, styled 13th Baron Chandos, bibliographer, 1762-1837 1
Burness, James, Edinburgh, printer, fl 1824-1845 1
Calder, James, Minister of Croy, 1712-1775 1
Campbell, R W, Captain, fl 1915 1
Campbell, Sir Alexander, 2nd Baronet, of Barcaldine, 1819-1880 1
Carruthers, Robert, of the 'Inverness Courier', 1799-1878 1
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Duff, Archibald (Vice Admiral) 1
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Hunter, family, of Blackness 1
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Leslie, Hugh F, Jamaica, sugar planter, fl 1846-1848 1
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Porteous, William, Edinburgh, fl 1860-1863 1
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