Documents.
Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:
Law cases of Lord President Duncan Forbes of Culloden.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Letters, 1773-1778, of Hugh Home Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, to George Rose, with three later letters, 1790, 1792, and 1793.
The letters deal very largely with domestic affairs and miscellaneous problems of estate management at Hemel Hempstead; but there are also extensive comments on the politics of the day, particularly on the course of the American War.
At the end of the volume are four documents relating to the Earl of Marchmont's affairs but unconnected with the correspondence.
Letters, 1788-1794, with some enclosures, of Thomas Graham, later Baron Lynedoch, to David Smythe, Lord Methven, Senator of the College of Justice, chiefly on personal and local affairs and Perthshire county politics; with an architectural drawing and notes, 1773.
Letters, accounts, newspaper cuttings, and other papers concerning the Western Bank of Scotland compiled by J S Fleming, liquidator of the bank.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount.
Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.
Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Letters and other documents received by the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
Letters and other papers chiefly of or concerning David Livingstone, including letters to Joseph Bevan Braithwaite.
The Braithwaites were a Quaker merchant family from Kendal, friends of Robert Moffat and his son-in-law David Livingstone. One, Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, was a barrister and acted as Livingstone's legal adviser. Livingstone's own letters to him and other members of the family have been dispersed (some are now in MSS. 10768 and 20312). These volumes contain other correspondence and papers, but chiefly concern Livingstone and his letters.
Letters and paper concerning place names in Aberdeenshire, used by George Chalmers in the compilation of his topographical dictionary.
The Dictionary was to have formed a supplement to George Chalmers's ‘Caledonia’, but was never published.
Letters and papers collected by Mr J R N Macphail, Kings Counsel, Sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan.
Letters and papers, including a specimen printed sheet, 1784, concerning the New Musical Type devised by Samuel Arnold for his edition of the works of George Frideric Handel.
Letters and papers of Thomas Borthwick concerning the Greenock Articulation School for deaf children, of which Borthwick was Secretary.
The contents include a number of letters to Thomas Borthwick from Alexander Graham Bell concerning the school and the education of the deaf in general.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Letters of and concerning Hugh Miller and his relatives.
Letters to, and a few other papers of, James Dundas, Physician in Edinburgh.
The letters are chiefly from other physicians seeking advice from James Dundas on behalf of their patients. Other correspondents include Walter Ruddiman and Sir Henry Erskine, 5th Baronet, of Alva and Cambuskenneth.
Letters, typescripts of lectures, diagrams, notes, and miscellaneous papers of Sir Patrick Geddes, Sociologist and Town Planner, and of his son Dr Arthur Geddes.
Manuscripts and papers of and concerning Brodie Cruikshank, merchant and official on the Gold Coast from 1834 to 1854 and author of ‘Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa’.
Material concerning the history of Geneva.
The contents are as follows: (i) “Reponse aux questions de Milord Townsend sur l’histoire et le gouvernement de Geneve par Monsieur Chouet conseiller et secretaire d’etat”; (ii) “Etat présent du gouvernement de Geneve en 1734”; (iii) ‘Remarques dur la ville et la Republique de Geneve; (iv) “Rôle des Sindics de la République de Genéve depuis l’an 1530”, ‘Les noms des anciens comtes de Genéve …’ and ‘Liste de Evêquas de Genéve…’.
Material for a history of the Officers of State and Royal Household of James I, II, III & IV of Scotland, collected by George Chalmers.
“Memoire concernant les troubles des Artichauds ou Informations pour bien enteudre le commencement des troubles & questions mueset advenues entre Berne & Genneve.”
‘Memoires for compiling the History of the Royall College of Physitians at Edinburghe’, with an account of the establishment of the Medicine Garden, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
The memoirs are taken from the records of the Royal College of Physicians.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.5.34.