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Letters and accounts concerning the lease of the Upper Library Room in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/9
Dates:
1823-1835.
Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.4
Scope and Contents
Much of the correspondence is personal or concerns Anderson`s historical work, but some is of a legal or financial nature. Folios 154-158 consist of invitations to funerals.
Dates:
1684-1731, and undated.
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
File
Identifier: MS.107
Scope and Contents
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Dates:
1720-1733.
Letters and papers of John McDiarmid Airlie, ILP and Labour activist.
File
Identifier: Acc.11566
Dates:
1912-1933.
Letters and papers of the Brown family, Linkwood, with some of the family of William Leslie, Minister of Lhanbryde.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3258-3276
Dates:
1769-1883, undated.
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.
Letters of and to Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald mostly concerning his work 'A New System of Telegraphy', but also others of his publications, and with some personal papers.
File
Identifier: MSS.50698-50699
Dates:
1791-1826
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.176
Dates:
1884-1969.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning purchases of books, with bills and bills of lading.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/2
Dates:
1820.
Letters to the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning shipments of books and books entered in Stationers’ Hall.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/10
Dates:
1821.
Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents
At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates:
1885-2019, undated.
Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9172-9225
Dates:
1896-1959, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents
Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates:
1980-1997.
Maxwell of Monreith papers, comprising family and estate correspondence, financial papers, and bound estate papers; with early charters of Maxwells and of Blair of Adamton. Includes general and literary correspondence, and some literary manuscripts, of Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7043/1—Adamton/18
Scope and Contents
This archive constitutes the bulk of the surviving family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith. It gives a clear picture of Maxwell family life, and the running of the Monreith estate from the early 18th century to 1920, with some later estate material. Some of the papers go back to the early 17th century, but the formal estate books begin in 1779, and from then on increase steadily in number and comprehensiveness until from 1893 to 1920 there is scarcely a detail of estate...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [1296]-1947, undated.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates:
1697-1698, 1817-1893.
Microfilm of family and genealogical papers of the family of Mackintosh of Farr.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.65
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1799-1821, of Mrs Catharine Mackintosh of Farr to her sons James John, 4th of Farr, and Alexander, 5th of Farr, in the East India Company's Madras army, chiefly on family and local affairs (MS.9853); 'Notes of the Genealogy of the House of Mackintosh and of the Different Branches of the Name that have Sprung from that ancient House; With the Genealogy of Several other Families connected therewith. Part of which is intended to form an...
Dates:
[1799-1937.]
Microfilm of papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.928
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...
Dates:
19th century-[?1913].
Microfilms of the business, financial and legal correspondence and papers of Daniel Campbell of Shawfield, merchant in Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15525-15526 [Mf.MSS.49-50]
Dates:
1694-1722.
Minute books and other papers of Michael E Campbell Penney concerning the Managing Board of St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12281
Dates:
1881-2002.
Minute books, press cuttings, correspondence and financial papers of the Waldensian Missions Aid Society, Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12519
Dates:
1850-1954.
Minutes, correspondence and other papers of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, mainly records of the Scottish Liberal Party.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11765/1-110
Scope and Contents
Minute books and other papers from the Edinburgh headquarters office of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, consisting mainly of older records of the Scottish Liberal Party prior to its union with the Social Democratic Party and the creation of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and including records of the Scottish Liberal Club and the Scottish Reform Club.
Dates:
1855-1987, undated.
Miscellaneous collection of letters and other papers of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries.
Series
Identifier: MS.786
Dates:
1791-1850, undated.