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...

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...

Scope and Contents From the Series: These papers are part of the collection which was formed by Sir Henry Steuart with a view to composing a ‘History of the Efforts in behalf of the House of Stuart from the Revolution onwards’, together with papers on the Stuarts and the rebellions which were acquired by Robert Chambers, and notes on persons and events of the period by him.The papers consist of originals and copies; most of them have been incorporated in Robert Chambers’ books or in articles written by him for...

Scope and Contents The correspondents and subjects dealt with include: Contract of Professor William Cullen, 1773; Professor John Playfair, 1790; Sir William Forbes and the proposed regulations regarding Bills of Exchange and Notes, 1790; Sir John Sinclair and Scottish wool, 1791; Mutiny of Highland troops at Linlithgow, 1794; Report on the Friends of the People and on J Gerrald, 1794; Printed circular letter to the Faculty of Advocates regarding the Deanship and Henry Erskine, with...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of George Rennie, engineer, 1808-1809, 1814, 1821. (Folio 1.) (ii) Letters of Sir John Rennie, 1810-1812, 1814-1815, 1818-1821. These include the detailed letters he sent while on his extensive tour in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. They contain plans and diagrams as well as detailed descriptions of many engineering undertakings, especially bridges and harbours. (Folio 25.) (iii) Letters of George Rennie of Phantassie, 1792, 1806,...

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There are also plans for a house, apparently at Murrayfield (folios 2-8 inverted).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...

Scope and Contents Contains the following maps and plans. (number 1) Map, undated, circa 1860, of Ceylon showing the principal roads and the proposed railway line from Colombo to Kandy; (number 2) Map, undated, circa 1860, of the Central Province of Ceylon showing the coffee estates; (number 3) Map of the Central Province of Ceylon showing the coffee estates, 1865; (number 4) Map, undated, circa 1860, showing the coffee estates in parts of Upper and Lower Dimboola; (number 5) Map showing the coffee estates in...

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The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1818-1820, reports, plans, and other papers, 1813-1818, 1821, of John Rennie concerning Dunleary harbour (MS.19792);

Notebook, 1801, of John Rennie concerning Dunleary harbour (MS.19793);

Papers, 1796-1821, of John Rennie concerning harbours in places beginning Dy-H (MS.19794).

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The contents are as follows: Correspondence, 1812-1817, 1820-1821, of John Rennie concerning Plymouth harbour (MS.19799);

Reports, estimates, and plans, 1806, 1811-1812, 1820, of John Rennie concerning Plymouth harbour (MS.19800);

Notebooks, 1806, 1812, of John Rennie of observations made at Plymouth harbour (MS.19801-19802);

Papers, 1782-1821, of John Rennie concerning harbours in places beginning with Po-Se (MS.19803).

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The papers include business accounts, plans, estimates, and typescripts giving details of the proposed building schemes. There are also several photographs of Roseburn Cliff, Coltbridge, and miscellaneous undated jottings concerning the project.

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Including a notebook listing and describing students at New College, 1850-1857, household inventories, 1839-1841, and plans of Cargill Manse, undated.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of the following: Miscellaneous incoming letters with draft replies, chiefly on family or local affairs not connected with the business, 1785-1856 (folio 1); Agreements with workers, 1809-1822, undated (folio 47); Estimates, accounts, and drawings for houses to be built at Bannockburn, 1781, 1788 (folio 58); Plan of the works at Bannockburn, 1835 (folio 77 verso); Miscellaneous papers on church affairs, 1815-1844, chiefly concerning the building of a Free Church manse,...

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The papers include fourteenth-century fragments of St Thomas Aquinas's ‘Summa Theologica’ (folio 1), a fragment of a roll of a [? manor] court held at Heydon, 1515 (folio 6), a letter, 1677, of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (folio 9), a plan, 1810, for alterations to the Cathcart road, near Glasgow (folio 34), and some political verses (folios 11, 85). Some of the papers appear to be connected with the Maxwells of Pollok.

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The papers include a notebook of prayers in a late 17th century hand (folio 1), genealogical notes mainly of the Laing family, 18th century (folio 9), and medical recipes of the 18th and 19th centuries (folio 13).

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The manuscript from which the typescript was made is probably the copy described by Alexander Macrae in ‘History of the Clan Macrae’, page 13, as belonging to Horatio Ross Macrae of Clunes.

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 Contains the following plans and drawings too large to be included in the other volumes of John Rennie papers. (i) Aberdeen, harbour mouth, undated; (ii) Ardglass, sections of harbour, undated; (iii) Plant for Billinge's silk mill, undated; (iv) Bridlington harbour, undated; (v) Shore near Charlestown, by Robert Beaumont, 1807; (vi) Proposed railway from Dunleary to Dalkey, 1815; (2 sheets) (vii) Ordnance ground at Harwich with situation of two proposed lights, circa 1808; (viii) Holyhead...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Contains the following plans and drawings too large to be included in the other volumes of John Rennie papers. (i) Aberdeen, harbour mouth, undated; (ii) Ardglass, sections of harbour, undated; (iii) Plant for Billinge's silk mill, undated; (iv) Bridlington harbour, undated; (v) Shore near Charlestown, by Robert Beaumont, 1807; (vi) Proposed railway from Dunleary to Dalkey, 1815; (2 sheets) (vii) Ordnance ground at Harwich with situation of two proposed lights, circa 1808; (viii) Holyhead...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...