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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

Series

Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27

Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...

Dates: ?1825-1856.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13898

Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

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