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Copies of registration books and related documents of three Merchant Navy seamen.
Papers mostly document work for shipping companies based or registered in Leith.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Papers concerning the Lord High Commissioners to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.
Papers of Robert Herdman.
Comprising:
1. photocopy of "Picture Book", 1870-1887, recording pictures painted by Herdman
2. notes of Herdman, on Thomas Carlyle, made while painting his portrait
3. correspondence of R Duddingstone Herdman, 1897, concerning the mounting of an exhibition.
Photocopies of a record of voting, 1737, by the Faculty of Advocates for the Professor of Scots Law, and a note, undated, by John Erskine.
Photocopies of account, 1664, of accident at Inverness, and list, 1669-1772, of deaths of persons named Fraser.
Found on endpapers of copy of "Lawes and Actes".
Photocopies of lists of books belonging to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Photocopies of lists of works of Charles D`Orville Pilkington Jackson.
Photocopies of minutes and a subscription list, concerning the founding of the school at Frenchie.
Photocopies of transcripts, 1849-1894, of "Mundell Family Extracts from Loch Broom and Ullapool Parish Kirk Session Records"
With copies of related letters, 1975, of James R Matheson.
Photocopy of a letter of Thomas Ruddiman to Bishop Archibald Campbell.
Ruddiman explains why the Advocates` Library cannot buy his books and coins. With a list of the books which are not in the Advocates` Library.
Photocopy of a list of manuscripts in the West Highland Museum, Fort William.
Photocopy of entry of Sir Walter Scott`s marriage in register of St Mary`s, Carlisle.
Photocopy of manuscript of Hugh Amory, "Checklist of English Autograph Sales, 1901-1916".
Photocopy of roup list of books possessed by Colonel Charles Campbell of Barbreck sold as part of his sequestered assets at Barr House, Kintyre, May 1796.
Photocopy of typescript of "Register of Estate and Farming Operations, Garden, Stirlingshire".
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.