Scope and Contents From the File: The contents are as follows. (i) Leith, correspondence, 1803-1804, 1809, 1811, 1817, most of it concerning ferries across the Forth, and objections by the Port of Leith to the construction of the Union Canal. (Folio 1.) (ii) Liverpool, correspondence and plans, 1812, 1817, 1820-1821, including letters relating to the opposition to the erection of Telford's bridge at Runcorn, 1817. For papers relating to the Perch Rock Light see MS.19806, folios 239-252. (Folio 69.) (iii) London, reports and...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Port Patrick and Port Logan (Portnessock), correspondence and reports concerning the development of these harbours and others for the Irish crossing, 1810, 1813-1817, 1820-1821 (folio 1); (ii) Portsmouth, report and list of soundings, 1814, 1819 (folio 61); (iii) Queensferry, letters and printed plan, 1808, 1811-1812 (folio 67); (iv) Ramsgate, reports, 1782-1783, 1787-1788 by John Smeaton, correspondence, 1812, 1814-1817, 1820-1821, and printed tide tables,...

Scope and Contents Though John Rennie's reputation is based on his civil engineering works, he continued throughout his life to be interested in and to construct mill machinery, both for mills powered by water, wind, and horses, and for those powered by steam. He had been briefly employed by Boulton and Watt in 1784, and it is thought agreed then not to construct steam engines himself. As a quid pro quo, Boulton and Watt regularly gave Rennie the task of providing the machinery to go with their engines. Thus...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i)-(ix) Cornmills. (i) Albion Mill, street plans, circa 1795, circa 1814, showing the position of the mill, and the letter, 1786, in which John Rennie described to his brother George the first starting of the mill, with miscellaneous notes and calculations relating to the mill, and to corn-milling in London, 1796-1798 (folio 1); (ii) Cork, letters, 1816-1820 (folio 16); (iii) Barsloisnoch in Kilmartin, letter, 1797 (folio 49); (iv) Lingard and Sadler's Mill,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Printing press for the Bank of England, correspondence and plan, 1805, 1810-1811, 1813-1815 (folio 1); (ii) Railways (folio 26); Berwick and Kelso, letters, report, and plans, 1808, 1810-1811; Charlestown, letter, 1812; Mansfield and Pinxton, letters, 1817; (iii) Retaining walls, (folio 49); Annan, reports, 1821; Chetney, letters, 1811, 1817; North Lynn, report, 1809. Redculver, correspondence and estimates, 1807, report, 1820; Tulliallan, correspondence and...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters and estimate concerning the purchase by the government, for the use of the dockyard at Deptford, of the engine belonging to the Honourable George Villiers at Aldenham, 1811-1813 (folio 1); (ii) Reports, possibly by William Murdock, on the engines at Ale and Cakes, and Dolcoath copper mines near Redruth in Cornwall, 1782 (folio 9); (iii) Description of a Boulton and Watt engine made for Mark Bell, Battersea, undated (folio 13); (iv) Letters concerning...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Archway Bridge at Highgate, correspondence, 1811-1812, 1817 (folio 1); (ii) Boston, draft report, estimate, and letter, 1800, 1811 (folio 31); (iii) Bridge of Earn, letters, 1820-1821, and plan, undated (folio 38); (iv) Carlisle, letter, 1812 (folio 43); (v) Chepstow, letters, 1811-1812 (folio 45); (vi) Conway and Menai, papers, reports, and correspondence relating to these bridges in particular, and to improvements to the road to Holyhead in general,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Aberdeen, letters, 1796, 1801 (folio 1); (ii) Aire and Calder, correspondence and papers, 1820-1821 (folio 4); (iii) Bath and Bristol, estimates and reports, 1796, 1803, undated (folio 71); (iv) Birmingham, report, 1808 (folio 88); (v) Chelmer and Blackwater, reports, 1793-1796 (folio 118); (vi) Colne, report by Thomas Telford, 1811 (folio 133). (vii) Crinan, correspondence, papers and reports, 1803-1804, 1816-1820 (folio 135); (viii) Dart, letters, 1806...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows. (i) Aberdeen, letters, 1796, 1801 (folio 1); (ii) Aire and Calder, correspondence and papers, 1820-1821 (folio 4); (iii) Bath and Bristol, estimates and reports, 1796, 1803, undated (folio 71); (iv) Birmingham, report, 1808 (folio 88); (v) Chelmer and Blackwater, reports, 1793-1796 (folio 118); (vi) Colne, report by Thomas Telford, 1811 (folio 133). (vii) Crinan, correspondence, papers and reports, 1803-1804, 1816-1820 (folio 135); (viii) Dart, letters, 1806...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Lancaster, reports, 1794, and correspondence, 1794, 1817 (folio 1); (ii) Lea, reports, 1804, 1807 (folio 34); (iii) Leeds and Liverpool, correspondence, 1798 (folio 42); (iv) London to Portsmouth, including the Croydon Canal, correspondence, 1795, 1802-1804, 1817, 1821, and papers, 1802-1803 (folio 185); (v) Perthshire, instructions for a survey, 1793 (folio 230); (vi) Regent's, correspondence and printed plan, 1811-1812 (folio 232); (vii) Rochdale, dividend...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The contents are as follows. (i) Lancaster, reports, 1794, and correspondence, 1794, 1817 (folio 1); (ii) Lea, reports, 1804, 1807 (folio 34); (iii) Leeds and Liverpool, correspondence, 1798 (folio 42); (iv) London to Portsmouth, including the Croydon Canal, correspondence, 1795, 1802-1804, 1817, 1821, and papers, 1802-1803 (folio 185); (v) Perthshire, instructions for a survey, 1793 (folio 230); (vi) Regent's, correspondence and printed plan, 1811-1812 (folio 232); (vii) Rochdale, dividend...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Amsterdam, canal dredger, correspondence, 1819-1821 (folio 1); (ii) Cadiz, copper-mill, correspondence and drawing, 1811, 1814-1816 (folio 35); (iii) Capetown, waterworks, letter, 1814 (folio 51); (iv) Copenhagen, smithy for the royal dockyard, correspondence, 1803 (folio 53); (v) Le Havre, dredging machine, agreement and correspondence, 1818-1819 (folio 62); (vl) Malta dock, letter, 1813 (folio 83); (vii) Nantes, corn-mill, accounts, 1791-1793, and...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Barclay and Perkins Brewery, estimates and valuations, 1805-1807, 1809, 1813-1816, with a note of all payments made by the brewery to John Ronnie and Sons, from 1794 to 1831 (folio 1); (ii) Billinge's Silk Mill, Twyford, drawings and notes, 1799 (folio 25); (iii) The Earl of Bridgewater's threshing machine at Home Farm, Ashridge, 1811-1813 (folio 31); (iv) Cement mill at Loftus, Yorkshire, letters, 1811 (folio 58); (v) Claverton Mill, plan of water levels,...

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Plans for the shrubbery west of the House and Gardens, Abbotsford, 1812.

Two Light Dragoon regulation books used for notes by Sir Walter Scott and William Laidlaw, 1818-1819.

Eight letters From William Laidlaw and others to Alexander Laidlaw, Bowerhope, Selkirk, 1817-1840.

Five payslips signed by William Laidlaw for a private account, 1841-1842.

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[Performed, 1992].

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...

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...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...

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The contents are as follows. (i) Printed plan of underground workings belonging to the Wemmer Gold Mining Company, 1894 (number 1). Charles Murray was the surveyor. (ii) Plan by Murray of the manager's house, New Florida Gold Mining Company, 1896 (number 2); (iii) Drawing of the dining-room at 'The Willows', Pretoria, undated (number 3).

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A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.

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A group of about 2500 plans, chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson. Their business was concerned chiefly with sea-works, lighthouses, harbours, canals and river courses, and the plans reflect this interest, although there are some items relating to railways and bridges.