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Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20262-20267
Dates:
1708-1958, 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.
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.26
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, 17th century, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon (Adv.MS.17.2.4); Gordons of Craichlaw (Adv.MS.27.5.28);Letters, 1618-1712, to members of the Oswald family of Fingaltoun. Some...
Dates:
Late 16th century- early 19th century.
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].