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Accounts and related correspondence for alterations to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/12
Dates:
1870.
Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents
Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates:
1518-1965, undated.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the painter, Hope James Stewart (died 1881).
File
Identifier: MS.9738
Scope and Contents
The correspondence (folio 1) contains personal letters, letters on financial matters, and letters about his work. A few of these, dated 1885-1888 and addressed to his wife, concern his portrait of Sir William Hamilton. The correspondence is followed by accounts and financial papers (folio 145), and by miscellaneous papers (folio 185).
Dates:
1857-1888, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20752-20753
Dates:
1833-1883, undated.
Correspondence and papers of James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), the artist and antiquary; including some earlier material concerning the Skene family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20465-20476
Dates:
16th century-20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Correspondence of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning alteration specifications to the Advocates Library and accounts for the installation of heating apparatus.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/13
Dates:
1853-1864.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Letters and accounts concerning the lease of the Upper Library Room in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/9
Dates:
1823-1835.
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
File
Identifier: MS.107
Scope and Contents
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Dates:
1720-1733.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates:
1644-1760, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/1
Dates:
1687-1738.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.
Papers, accounts, receipts and correspondence relating to the financial affairs of James Ballantyne and Co, and to Sir Walter Scott as partner in the firm, most being connected with John Gibson W.S., as solicitor to the Trustees.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12952
Dates:
circa 1825-1827.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th century.
Papers of and concerning Margaret Macpherson Grant.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8054
Scope and Contents
Comprising cash books, accounts, legal documents, and correspondence, including letters concerning sugar estates in Jamaica owned by her.
Dates:
1848-1878.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.164- is now Acc.5058.
Dates:
19th century-20th century.