Collection name. Abbotsford Collection
Record Group
Identifier: Collection name
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charters and deeds collected by Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Abbotsford. Included are diplomas and other papers of Sir Walter and of John Gibson Lockhart.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.708-857
Scope and Contents
Nearly all of the charters and deeds refer to Dryburgh and the surrounding country.
Dates:
Circa 1300-1760, 1793-1853.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Series
Identifier: MSS.851-938
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with those of clients and kinsmen of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1549-1634
Dates:
1614-1912.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
‘Report on Arrangement of Abbotsford Papers by Alexander Orrock, Junior [bookbinder] October, 1875’, a list of the manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott received from Abbotsford, indicating those which have been bound, etc.
Item
Identifier: MS.1762
Scope and Contents
Several of the manuscripts listed are now in the National Library.
Dates:
1875.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts