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Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1597-1823.

Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description

A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.

The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.

Dates: ca. 1800-1823

Papers of Scottish interest, collected by R R Gove-Brown-Henderson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4378
Scope and Contents Comprising:1. letter, 1833, of Sir John Sinclair, on shell marle as manure2. rental, 1782, of the estate of Wattin, Caithness3. printed price list and two invoices, 1849, of Peter Lawson and Son4. list, 19th century, of seeds5. copy (in the hand of the donor) of letter, 1821, of William Stewart, on a new road in Caithness6. printed programme, 1887, of the Royal Naval Review at Spithead7. note book, late 17th...
Dates: late 17th century to 19th century.

Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9251
Scope and Contents

Includes sermons, lectures, notes for published works, correspondence, pastoral notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 1926-1985.