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Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10393-10491
Scope and Contents A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1815-1967, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Correspondence of James Steuart, WS, with Charles B Boog Watson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11688
Scope and Contents

Concerns "The Bell Family in Dumfriesshire" (1932), and includes genealogical tables.

Dates: 1931-1932.

Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9585
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1858-1902 and undated.

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.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1799-1853, undated.

Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates: 1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

Further papers of William Walls.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14364/1-7
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1845-1992.

Graeme of Inchbrakie papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12867
Dates: 16th century to 19th century.

Jacobite Papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: 1645-1891.

Letters and papers, 1777-1778, 1795-1804, and undated, sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas`s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.6
Scope and Contents The papers, which accompany the letters, consist of genealogical accounts of several of the landed families of Scotland, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Most of the letters that are addressed to individuals are to James Watson, who is described as `circulating library, stationer and bookseller` in the Edinburgh directories of the time. The genealogies of the families of Johnstone of Gallabank (folio 62) and of Leslie of Findrassie (folio 70) and the pedigree...
Dates: 1777-1804.

Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.

 File
Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates: 1797-1826, undated.

Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.622-632
Scope and Contents

These papers are in continuation of MS.535.

The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.

Dates: 1804-1857.

Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents

The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.

Dates: 1779-1884.

Letters of, to and concerning David Octavius Hill.

 File
Identifier: MS.23636
Scope and Contents Among the subjects covered are Hill`s role in the Royal Scottish Academy, developments in photography, and his role in producing `The Land of Burns`.Also included is the Diploma admitting Hill as ordinary fellow to the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts.Includes letters between Ian H Macdonald and Katherine Michaelson relating to the use of the letters for an exhibition, and an inventory of all items contained in the file.Five Letters of Ian H Macdonald to...
Dates: 1828-1899.

Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11800
Scope and Contents

Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.

Dates: circa 1800-1965.

Letters to Robert Beatson concerning his proposed work on the English peerage (see Adv.MS.33.5.9).

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.10
Scope and Contents

The letters are mainly from a variety of British peers and several include genealogical accounts of their families.

Dates: 1782, 1801-1804.

Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates: 1696.

Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.

 File
Identifier: MS.3248
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 18th century-2nd quarter of 20th century.

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Genealogies. 73
Correspondence. 50
Letters. Correspondence. 47
Notes. 27
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 21
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Copies. Derivative objects. 19
Manuscripts. 18
Poetry. 13
Photographs. 11
Lists. 10
Typescripts. 10
Financial records. 9
Histories. 9
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Excerpts. 8
Accounts. 7
Diaries. 7
Documents. 7
Drafts. Documents. 7
Microfilms. 7
Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories). 7
Biographies. 6
Notebooks. 6
Translations. Documents. 6
Family papers. 5
Photocopies. 5
Printed materials. Object genre. 5
Sketches. 5
Speeches. Documents. 5
Transcripts. 5
Catalogues. 4
Indexes. Reference sources. 4
Journals. Accounts. 4
Petitions. 4
Portraits. 4
Publications. 4
Transcripts 4
Abstracts. Summaries. 3
Account books. 3
Certificates. 3
Engravings. Prints. 3
Inventories. 3
Lectures. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Research notes 3
Sermons. 3
Warrants. Permissions. 3
Watercolours. Paintings. 3
Agreements. Legal instruments. 2
Annotations. 2
Articles. 2
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 2
Autobiographies. 2
Books 2
Charters 2
Charters. 2
Claims. Legal documents. 2
Coats of arms. devices (symbols). 2
Contracts. Agreements. 2
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Estate records. 2
Extracts. 2
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Fragments. 2
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Orders. Records (documents). 2
Pamphlets. 2
Personal papers. 2
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Postcards. 2
Proclamations 2
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Receipts. Financial records. 2
Registers (lists). 2
Research notes. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
Travel journals. 2
Treatises. 2
Wills. 2
Abridgements. Versions of documents. 1
Accounts of intromissions. 1
Administrative records. 1
Albums. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 1
Armorial bearings. 1
Bankbooks. 1
Blazons. Instructional materials. 1
Bonds of relief. Legal instruments. 1
Bonds. Legal instruments. 1
Bookplates. 1
Business records. 1
Calculations. 1
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Census records. 1
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Cheques. 1
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English 53
Undetermined 36
Multiple languages 4
Latin 3
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Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 2
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 2
Forrester, family 2
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Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010 2
Amelia, Hill, 1820-1904 (née Paton, Sculptor, wife of David Octavius Hill) 1
Anderson, Andrew, surgeon, fl 1804-1853 1
Anderson, Thomas, surgeon, fl 1804-1853 1
Bain, Joseph, antiquary, 1826-1911 1
Balfour (family, of Pilrig ) 1
Balfour, Sir Thomas Graham, Knight, author, 1858-1929 1
Begg, Isabella, 1807-1886 (daughter of Isabella, sister of Robert Burns, poet) 1
Bell, Henry Glassford, 1803-1874 (writer and sheriff) 1
Brown, John, 1784-1858 (minister of the United Presbyterian Church, Theologian) 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Burns, George, Minister of Tweedsmuir, 1790-1876 1
Camberg, Sarah Elizabeth Maud, teacher of pianoforte, mother of Muriel Spark, author, née Uezzell, 1888-1974: recipient 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885: collector 1
Campbell, Patrick William, Writer to the Signet, 1850-1922 1
Carnegie, Andrew, philanthropist, 1835-1919 1
Cathcart, Alan Frederick, 3rd Earl Cathcart, 1828-1905: recipient 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780–1847 (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Cockburn, Elizabeth Anne, wife of Francis Jeffrey, judge, née Pitcairn, 1831-1923 1
Cockburn, Francis Jeffrey, judge, 1825-1893 1
Cockburn, family 1
Connel, John, emigrant to Quebec, fl 1845-1860 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, 1837-1924 (travel writer) 1
Cumming, Constance Frederica Gordon-, travel writer, 1837-1924 1
Cuppage, Clarinda, wife of Alexander, General, née Bruce, fl 1786 1
Dalziel, Ethel, kinswoman of John, Writer to the Signet, fl 1902: recipient 1
Dalziel, John, Writer to the Signet, 1838-1883 1
Dalziel, family 1
Dick, Robert, c 1733-1824 1
Douglas, Mary Palmer-, wife of Edward, of Cavers, née Douglas Malcolm, d 1949 1
Douglas, family 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Dunbar, family, of Mochrum 1
Edmond, William, emigrant to Minnesota, fl 1845-1860 1
Ferrerio, Giovanni, philosopher, poet, historian, 1502-1579 1
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, patriot, ? 1653-1716. 1
Gairdner, David, assistant to John Alpine, Minister of Skirling, d 1837 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Graeme, family, of Inchbrakie 1
Greig, family, Fife and Edinburgh 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Halkett , family, of Pitfirrane 1
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hanna, family 1
Hill, Ann, 1804-1841 (née Macdonald, wife of David Ocatvius Hill) 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Horsburgh, family 1
Houston, family 1
Keating, Geoffrey (Seathrún Céitinn), ca. 1580-ca. 1644 1
Lapraik, John (poet) 1
Lapraik, Thomas, Muirkirk, fl 1810-1843 1
Logan, Patrick (schoolmaster in Lurgan, Co. Armagh) 1
MacLean, Alasdair, physician, genealogist and historian, 1918-1999 1
Macdonald, Ian H, fl 1968-1974 1
Macdonald, Jane, fl 1840-1853 1
Macfarlane, Walter, of Macfarlane, antiquary, d 1767 1
Maclean, Harry Aubrey de Vere, Sir, 1848-1920 1
Maclean, James Noel Mackenzie, of Glensanda, Younger, 1928-1978 1
Macphail, Earle Monteith, Principal of Madras Christian College, 1861-1937 1
Macphail, James Gordon Stewart, Sudan Political Service, 1900-1986 1
Macphail, family 1
Malcolm, family 1
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 1
McCandlish, John (Manager of the Scottish Union Insurance Office, Edinburgh) 1
McGregor, family 1
McQuat, family 1
Melville, Barbara Gordon Balfour-, author of "The Balfours of Pilrig", b 1846 1
Millais, John Everett, Sir, 1st Baronet, 1829–1896 (painter) 1
Moffat, Robert, missionary, 1795-1883 1
Moncrieff, Cora Scott-, correspondent of Ethel Dalziel, kinswoman of John, Writer to the Signet, fl 1902 1
Nasmyth, James Hall, engineer, 1808-1890 1
Nightingale, Florence, hospital reformer, 1820–1910 1
Palmer Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Park, Mungo (explorer of West Africa) 1
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Pitcairn, Robert, solicitor, 1802-1861 1
Pitcairn, family 1
Ross, Alexander, divine, 1591-1654 1
Royal Scottish Academy 1
Ruthven, Mary Hamilton, 1789-1885 (née Campbell, wife of 7th Lord Ruthven) 1
Salisbury, Bishop of 1
Scott Plummer, family, of Sunderland Hall 1
Shiells, Archibald, merchant, Edinburgh, 1677-1752 1
Skene, family, of Rubislaw 1
Southwell, Robert, Saint, writer, 1561-1595 1
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 1
Spark, Samuel Robin, artist, son of Dame Muriel, author, b 1938 1
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, Knight, explorer, formerly Rowlands, 1841-1904 1
Steuart, James, Writer to the Signet, 1860-1938 1
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