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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[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.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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 member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.