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Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Legal and historical collections of Sir Lewis Stewart of Kirkhill, advocate, compiled early in the 17th century.
Legal and political correspondence and papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
Included in the papers are letters, 1831-1849, of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice, to Cockburn, and some notes, undated, for Jeffrey`s biography.
The legal papers are concerned mainly with trials in which Cockburn appeared as counsel, and consist largely of briefs drawn up for his instruction, copies of the precognitions of witnesses, and some printed material relating to the cases.
Legal correspondence and papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Legal opinions and other documents concerning Scottish representative peers.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Legal opinions and other documents relating to the right of the Prince of Wales to be Duke of Rothesay, and to vote at elections of Scottish peers, 1787-1791 (folio 1);
(ii) 'A letter concerning the Scots Peerage', addressed to Captain Alexander Abercromby of Glassaugh, Member of Parliament from Glasgow, 1719, condemning the proposal to make the representation of the Scots Peers hereditary (folio 63).
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
Letter, 1790, and memorial, undated, signed by James Bruce of Kinnaird.
James Bruce requests a reward for his services in giving advice on the possibility of an attack on Ferrol or Gascony and in exploring Barbary and the Nile, and describes his interviews with the authorities in London.
From the handwriting of the endorsement, the letter appears to have been addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Letter of William Fullarton.
Concerning his claim to the title of Lord Spynie, with notes of Lord Hailes on the case, and a printed "Additional Appendix to the Case...".
Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.
The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.
Letters and legal documents of the Napier family of Merchiston.
A collection of 55 documents bound into a large volume, ca. 1900, where they are mostly mounted onto the pages. Items 1-29 are legal documents; 30-40 concern early 17th-century family matters; 41-50 concern domestic Scottish affairs during the reign of Charles I, and 51-55 relate to events in the reign of Charles II.
A list of the documents is kept with the volume.
Letters and memoranda, 1785-1794, written by the descendants of peers attainted in the 1715 Jacobite rising in an attempt to recover their titles and estates.
Most of the letters and memorandums, 1785-1794 are from the Earl of Mar, addressed apparently to the Earl of Seaforth (folios 13-67).
Also included are notes and copies of opinions, 1761-1820, on the succession to five peerages attainted in the 1715 and 1745 risings (folios 68-137), and miscellaneous notes, undated, on peerages (folios 1-12).
Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
Letters and papers, chiefly of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
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.
Letters and papers of Alexander Robertson of Strowan, the Jacobite.
Strowan`s own letters mostly concern his financial and legal affairs, but among those addressed to him are some from the Earl of Mar, written during and after the Rising of 1715, and from John Hay, Duke of Inverness. The papers also concern Strowan`s part in the Rising, and the pardon granted to him in 1731.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, General Sir George Murray.
The contents are as follows: (i) Letters, 1810-1817, of, to, and concerning, General Sir George Murray, including two letters from Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington; with a notebook in Sir George's hand, chiefly concerning the Peninsular War (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and legal papers, 1824-1825, concerning Erskine v Murray (folio 29); (iii) Letter, 1845, of Sir George Murray probably to General Paul Anderson (folio 70).
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Letters and papers of the Urquhart family of Burdsyards, in Morayshire, together with some legal documents, chiefly from the parish of St Fergus, Aberdeenshire.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself 'William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern', law genealogist, relating to the family of Innes of Stow.
Included are: papers relating to the claim of George Innes and Gilbert Innes of Stow as creditors of Archibald Chessells, wright, Edinburgh, 1767-1804 (folio 2); papers of Gilbert Innes and Jane Innes in connection with the trust of David Littlejohn, Jamaica, and legal papers of Jane Innes of Stow, 1811-1834 (folio 30); papers relating to certain claimants to the estate of Innes of Stow, 1851-1857 (folio 85).
Letters and papers relating to church and school affairs in the Parish of Roxburgh.
Letters, notebooks and manuscripts of and concerning Hugh Miller, geologist.
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.
Letters of David Barnett, Lady Stair`s House Museum, Edinburgh, to May Merkley, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada, on matters relating to Robert Burns.
Includes a lock of the hair of Burns`s widow Jean Armour and a copy of the deed relating to the Glenriddell Manuscripts.