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"A Skylight on the Past", copy of a typescript of letters and memoranda of the families of Pemberton in County Durham and Wallace in Nairn, compiled by Nisa Laing.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9986
Scope and Contents
Contains material concerning India and the First World War.
Dates:
1880-circa 1920.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Dates:
1778-1961, undated.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Dates:
1884-1936, undated.
Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2991-2992
Dates:
1548-1550, 1561, undated.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.