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Letters and papers of the Urquhart family of Burdsyards, in Morayshire, together with some legal documents, chiefly from the parish of St Fergus, Aberdeenshire.

 File
Identifier: MS.9241
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1698-1830, undated. Most of the letters are to Captain Robert Urquhart (died 1741) and his wife, Mary, on personal and legal matters. Among the correspondents are several members of the Forbes family of Culloden, who were related to Mary Urquhart. There are also some letters to Robert's two elder sons, and to his grandson, Colonel Duncan Urquhart, and a few miscellaneous letters, including one, 1830, of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to the...
Dates: 1697-1830.

Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3112

Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9977/1-63
Scope and Contents

Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1830-1983.