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Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, family papers, formal documents and research material concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Correspondence, legal and genealogical papers of the Macrae family of Conchra and Ballimore.
Correspondence, legal papers, commissions, and genealogical tables of and relating to the Wedderburn and Halkett of Pitfirrane families.
Correspondence of James Steuart, WS, with Charles B Boog Watson.
Concerns "The Bell Family in Dumfriesshire" (1932), and includes genealogical tables.
Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.
With letter, 1902, of Cora Scott-Moncrieff to Ethel Dalziel concerning Sir Joseph Nöel Paton, and genealogical table, undated, of the Hanna and Dalziel families.
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Further papers of William Walls.
The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.
Genealogical notes by Donald Whyte on the families of McLamroch, Nicholson or Nicolson, Whyte and Wodrow or Woodrow.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Letters and papers, 1777-1778, 1795-1804, and undated, sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas`s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’.
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Letters of, to and concerning David Octavius Hill.
Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.
Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.
Letters to Robert Beatson concerning his proposed work on the English peerage (see Adv.MS.33.5.9).
The letters are mainly from a variety of British peers and several include genealogical accounts of their families.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.