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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.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

Collection

Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

Dates: 1509-19th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division