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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 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 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.
Letters to James Walker, Writer to the Signet, including some unconnected papers and letters.
Letters to Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, and an instruction-book of his son Charles.
Memorials received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
The contents are as follows:
(i) ‘Memorial representing ... the necessity of continuing the present duties on foreign linen and the bounties ... by the committee of the ... dealers in linen in the shire of Forfar’, etc., 1788; with a letter of George Dempster of Dunnichen, MP, supporting the memorial, 1788 (folio 1);
(ii) Memorial respecting the necessity of signing the oath of allegiance in Scotland, 1791 (folio 12).
Microfilm of “Alexander Cummings’s narrative”, a contemporary manuscript, containing copies of letters and other memorials of Sir Alexander Cuming, 2nd Baronet of Culter, Advocate, and Chief of the Cherokee Indians, who died in 1775.
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.
Microfilm of correspondence of, and manuscripts of or concerning, Thomas De Quincey.
Microfilm of correspondence, papers, charters and other formal documents of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and of his son Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, American and West Indian Merchant in London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Microfilm of family papers of the Grahams of Airth, notably of and concerning Charles Stirling, the estate of Ardoch Penn and Jamaica.
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.
The contents are as follows:
Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);
Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);
Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).