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Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10873
Dates:
1929-1990.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates relating to the management of the Estates and the personal and business affairs of the Sutherland family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.313
Dates:
13th century-1861.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
File
Identifier: MS.1888
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.
Dates:
1739, 1745, undated.
Papers relating to Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2138-2140
Dates:
1806-1824.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Three formal documents from the papers of Charles Herries, a merchant in London who was Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster.
File
Identifier: Ch.12767-12769
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: a document certifying his bankruptcy, 1798; a declaration of trust granted to him, 1799; a probate of his will, 1819.
Dates:
1798-1799, 1815.
Transcripts, made for Lieutenant-General G H Hutton, of four mediaeval manuscripts relating to the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, the originals of which were in the Advocates’ Library.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.2.1-22.2.4
Dates:
?12th century-1st half of 16th century.