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Digest of service in South Africa, 1899-1902 by 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8547
Scope and Contents

A copy in typescript carbon presented, December 1903, by Colonel Forbes Macbean and Captain W E Gordon to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill-Gardyne.

Dates: circa 1903.

`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.15
Scope and Contents

At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.

Dates: 1832-1853.

Papers of Ernest Nicholson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9373
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of novels, historical works and a report.

Dates: 1983-1990 and undated.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents

This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.

Dates: 15th century-1814.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

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Names
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Gordon Highlanders, 1st Battalion 1
Gardyne, Charles Greenhill-, 4th of Finavon, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1831-1923: recipient 1
Gordon, William Eagleson, Colonel, 1866-1941 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Macbean, Forbes, Major-General, 1857-1919 1