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Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
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.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents
The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates:
1532-18th century, and undated.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
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 of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12591
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Dates:
1529-1925.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Dates:
15th century-1814.