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Papers concerning Widows Fund, Annuitants, Poor relief, and other financial papers of the Faculty of Advocates.
Papers, consisting of historical and genealogical notes and extracts, transcripts of formal and legal documents of earlier periods (as well as a number of original documents and papers), and a few unrelated letters.
Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Papers from Pitfirrane House, Fife.
Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
Papers mostly concerning the prosecution and imprisonment of John Cameron of Fassifern.
Papers of and concerning Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haldane, Royal Engineers.
The manuscript consists of:
Letters, 1796-1797, 1805 to Henry Haldane concerning his applications to retire from the army (folio 1);
Haldane’s account, circa 1821, of his military career (folio 17);
Letters, 1825, concerning the award of a pension to Haldane’s children (folio 23);
Legal papers, 1798-1848, concerning Haldane’s family (folio 30);
Genealogical papers, ?1796, undated, concerning the Haldane family (folio 42).
Papers of and concerning John Mackinnon.
Seven documents:
will, 1807, of Roderick Mackinnon
two letters, 1838, of Major Macdonald, 93rd Highlanders, in Halifax, Nova Scotia
furlough, 1835, containing physical description of John Mackinnon
pay list, 1839, of a recruiting party at Stornoway
discharge certificate, 1842, of John Mackinnon
certificate of pledge, 1849, of the Marine Temperance Society of New York.
Papers of and concerning Margaret Macpherson Grant.
Comprising cash books, accounts, legal documents, and correspondence, including letters concerning sugar estates in Jamaica owned by her.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
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.
Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.
Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
Papers of James Aitkins, Bishop of Galloway.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1767. A large part of the papers consist of his essays, drafts and notes, many of which were used in his books.
Papers of John Seldon.
Concerning his property of Broomlands and lease of the farm of Galalaw, Roxburghshire.
Papers of Messrs Morton, Smart, Macdonald and Prosser WS.
Papers of Michael Grieve.
Includes correspondence and papers concerning Grieve`s work as a journalist and as a Scottish National Party candidate, and concerning the literary estate of C M Grieve. Includes letters of and concerning C M Grieve, and papers of Valda Grieve.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University.
Papers of Sir James J Reid.
Mostly concerning his work as a member of the Supreme Council of Justice of the Ionian Islands.