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Miscellaneous papers of the Scots and Irish Colleges, Paris, and English College, Douai, chiefly concerning the Scots College's defence of their property during the French Revolution.
File
Identifier: MS.5051
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Scots College: correspondence and official papers, 1791-1824, chiefly drafts of letters from Alexander Innes to French government officials (folios 6-115); leases and papers, 1787-1802, concerning college property (folios 117-146); accounts, 1770-1802 (folios 147-225);(ii) Irish College: miscellaneous papers in chronological order, 1787-1806 (folios 226-257);(iii) English College: miscellaneous papers in chronological order,...
Dates:
1770-1824.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th century.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Auchinleck, Ayrshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6632
Scope and Contents
Including estate accounts, legal papers and correspondence.
Dates:
1856-1940.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.166- is now Acc.5074.
Dates:
1881-1882
Papers of and concerning Margaret Macpherson Grant.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8054
Scope and Contents
Comprising cash books, accounts, legal documents, and correspondence, including letters concerning sugar estates in Jamaica owned by her.
Dates:
1848-1878.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12591
Scope and Contents
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Dates:
1529-1925.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
Papers of Messrs Morton, Smart, Macdonald and Prosser WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.369
Dates:
1914-1953.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.196
Dates:
1641-20th century.
Papers of part of the surviving business archive, or relating to the work, of Thomas Telford (1757-1834), engineer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19969-19978
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of business correspondence, draft reports, accounts and other papers relating to Thomas Telford's professional activities for the last decade of his life, as well as correspondence and some drafts relating to the 'Life of Thomas Telford civil engineer' itself. The business papers relate mainly to Scottish undertakings and to harbours, canals and fen drainage, with some personal and professional accounts.
The collection is roughly half of the material which survived in John...
Dates:
1795-1838, undated.
Papers of Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.208
Dates:
1806-1931, and undated.
Papers of Robert Kemp.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7622
Scope and Contents
Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.
With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.
Dates:
circa 1920-1967.
Papers of Robert Kemp, including typescripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries; correspondence, including letters from James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie; diaries, accounts, press cuttings and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.294- is now Acc.7622.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1967.
Papers of the Christies of Stenton.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10628
Scope and Contents
Includes charters, correspondence, legal papers and accounts.
Dates:
1597-1878.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the case of W W Ramsay, Library Assistant.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/52
Dates:
1823.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library relating to the printing of the Catalogue.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/15
Dates:
1733-1750.
Papers of the families of Maxwell of Steilston, MacMurdo, and Newhall of Goldielea.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7199
Dates:
circa 1630-1940.
Papers of the family of Ballantyne of Holylee.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.253
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of J G Lockhart and Robert Cadell.
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Papers of the family of Carnegie of Craigo, 15th-20th century, of Joseph Cauvin, Writer to the Signet, 1795-1817, and of John Craigie Halket of Cramond, 1861-1910.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.267
Dates:
15th century-20th century.