Personal papers.
Subject
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Scope Note: Private documents belonging to an individual. For records kept by public officials or other persons for their private or personal use but relating to their official duties, use "office files."
Found in 301 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and receipts, with a few other papers, chiefly for estate business, but with a few personal and household accounts., 1881-1889.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17439-17449
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1881-1889.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning Saltoun estate.
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Factory accounts and vouchers concerning Saltoun Estate.
Autobiography, diaries, correspondence and printed material of John William Ballantyne.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13189/1-86
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an autobiography written between the years 1910 and 1921 and a diary kept between 1899-1923. Both series of volumes contain letters, photographs and memorabilia pasted in.
Dates:
1861-1926, undated.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4496/1-19
Dates:
1837-1925.
Business papers of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd; with personal papers of the Bartholomew family.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13453
Dates:
1825-1980.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1812-1820.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5658-5663
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1812-1820.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1812-1814.
File
Identifier: MS.5658
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1812-1814.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1815.
File
Identifier: MS.5659
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1815.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1816-1817.
File
Identifier: MS.5660
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1816-1817.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1818.
File
Identifier: MS.5661
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1818.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1819.
File
Identifier: MS.5662
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1819.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1820.
File
Identifier: MS.5663
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1820.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston., 1821-1832.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5681-5683
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Robert and Lady Liston spent the remainder of their lives at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston, which Sir Robert had bought some years previously. He took a great interest in improving the estate and supervising road-making in the parish.
Dates:
1821-1832.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston., 1821-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.5681
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Robert and Lady Liston spent the remainder of their lives at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston, which Sir Robert had bought some years previously. He took a great interest in improving the estate and supervising road-making in the parish.
Dates:
1821-1823.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.
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Personal letters of and to Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston.
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Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston., 1825.
File
Identifier: MS.5682
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Robert and Lady Liston spent the remainder of their lives at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston, which Sir Robert had bought some years previously. He took a great interest in improving the estate and supervising road-making in the parish.
Dates:
1825.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.
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Personal letters of and to Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston.
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Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston.
Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston., 1826-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.5683
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Robert and Lady Liston spent the remainder of their lives at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston, which Sir Robert had bought some years previously. He took a great interest in improving the estate and supervising road-making in the parish.
Dates:
1826-1832.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.
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Personal letters of and to Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston.
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Copies of personal letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was retired for the second time, at home at Millburn Tower, near Kirkliston.
Copies of private letters and dispatches from the 1st Earl of Minto to the Chairman of the East India Company., 1807-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.11337
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1807-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19994-19999
Dates:
1886-1966, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st Baronet, chiefly relating to his service with the East India Company at Madras, and to his personal financial and political affairs., 1781-1809.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11142-11143
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1781-1809.
Correspondence and papers of Arthur Woodburn, including articles, press cuttings, lectures, photographs, glass slides and drafts of an autobiography.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7656 Box 1(1)-Box 44
Scope and Contents
Arthur Woodburn's strong interest in economics, education, European unity, international relations, modern languages and Scottish history and literature are reflected in the papers.
Dates:
1907-1977.
Correspondence and papers of James Clunie, chiefly concerning his association with John Maclean.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4334/1-5
Dates:
1908-1962.
Correspondence and papers of James Michael Grieve, the only child of Christopher and Valda Grieve., 1934-1988, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.27240-27242
Scope and Contents
James Michael Grieve was educated at Kilquhanity House in Kirkcudbrightshire, he became a journalist.
Dates:
1934-1988, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Anderson Graham and Katherine Graham, mainly concerning the Kalimpong homes and their missionary work in North India; with correspondence and papers of James Purdie, superintendent of Kalimpong homes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6039 Box 1(1)-Box 17(2)
Scope and Contents
These papers consist of the personal archive of the Very Rev John Anderson Graham DD, founder of the Kalimpong homes, and much of the general archive of the Homes themselves from the beginning of Graham's ministry there in 1889 until 1972.The importance of the collection lies in the detailed account it gives of the early development and later growth and organisation of one of the Scottish mission centres in India, and in the light it throws on the social and educational problems...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1857, 1880-1972, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, chiefly addressed to him from the Low Countries and relating to his regiment, the Scots Greys, and the War of the Austrian Succession.
File
Identifier: MS.2520
Scope and Contents
Included are a few letters addressed to Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell of Lawers.
Dates:
1741-1748, 1773, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, and the Buchan family., 1929-1994, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/1-49
Dates:
1929-1994, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Kincardine, being chiefly letters to the 2nd Earl of Kincardine, with one letter to the 1st Earl of Kincardine., 1648-1677, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.13500, folios 15-101
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Earls of Elgin, General Thomas Dalzell of Binns, the 2nd and 3rd Lords Cardross, the 1st Earl and Countess of Balcarres, Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh and John Slezor.
Dates:
1648-1677, undated.