Letters and papers relating chiefly to the City of Edinburgh., 1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
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 signatures of A Maconochie, Charles Hope, David Boyle and others, 1795;
Dr John Moore, 1796;
A plan for joining the Old and New Towns, 1800;
Right of the magistrates of Edinburgh to act as Justices of the Peace, 1800;
Celebration of Pitt’s birthday in Edinburgh, [?1807];
Residence of Louis XVIII, as the Comte de Lille, at Holyroodhouse, 1807;
Henry Dundas on the Peninsular War, 1808;
The agent for the convention of Royal Burghs, 1811;
Universities of Scotland and the Copyright Bill, 1814;
Sir William Rae’s statement on the Edinburgh Gaol Bill and the County Buildings, 1816;
Reverend Dr Thomas Chalmers and the Divinity Chair, University of Edinburgh, 1817;
Restoration of St Giles’ Cathedral, 1818, 1826;
Financial affairs of the City of Edinburgh, 1819, 1833, 1835;
Appointment of J Gillespie as H M Architect in Scotland, 1822;
Francis Jeffrey and John Hope on candidature of John Ramsay McCulloch for a proposed chair of political economy at Edinburgh University, 1825;
Report and letters on the upkeep and improvements of the streets, 1825, 1837, 1849;
The King’s donation towards the building of the Royal High School, 1826;
Royal Observatory, 1827;
Repairs to and occupation of Holyroodhouse, 1828 (including a letter of Robert Peel);
Proposed House of Refuge, 1829;
Resignation of Solicitor-General Hope, 1830;
Political agitation in Edinburgh, 1831;
Plan of proposed site for the County Hall and Advocates’ Library, 1834;
Upkeep of roads between Edinburgh and the County of Midlothian, 1834;
Allowance of the Lord Provost, 1835.
Dates
- Creation: 1773, 1790-1837, 1849.
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Extent
307 Leaves ; Folio.
Language of Materials
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Arrangement
307 folios.
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