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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5320-5404
Scope and Contents

Both families were descended from Archibald Stuart of Castlemilk and Fynart (died 1660).

Dates: Late 15th century-Early 20th century.

Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.24725-24774
Scope and Contents James Abercromby was Judge Advocate General, 1827; Chief Baron of the Exchequer Court, Scotland, 1830-1832; a member of the Whig Cabinet as Master of the Mint, 1834; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1835-1839; and created 1st Baron Dunfermline, 1839.Much of the family correspondence is from Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron and from and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto. With the papers are a few letters, 1909-1912, to Alexander Lockhart Trotter,...
Dates: 1798-1887, undated.

Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates: 1941-2022

Letters, photographs and papers of or concerning the Dallas and Macarthur families of Nairn, and relating chiefly to the activities of the brothers Macarthur in Quebec, Ontario, Iowa and Manitoba.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10623/1-6
Scope and Contents

Chiefly concerning members of the MacArthur family in Canada and the United States of America. Includes photographs and photocopies of press cuttings.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1815-1936, 1972, undated.

Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5070-5138
Scope and Contents

The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.

Dates: 1583-19th century, undated.

Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26301-26462
Scope and Contents

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: 1854-1980, undated.

Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26561-26671
Scope and Contents

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1895-1983, undated.