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19 letters of James Innes, Archibald Anderson, and others, in Jamaica, to Robert Scollay and Thomas Bolt, in the Shetland Islands.
24 letters of John Cunningham and Colin MacLarty, both in Jamaica, to friends and relatives at Greenock.
Discussing the effects of fever and commenting on the anti-slavery campaign of Wilberforce.
Four letters of Colville Wedderburn and Co to James Dunlop.
Jamaican estate letter book of Hugh F Leslie of Leith Hall sugar plantation.
Jamaican estate letter book of Hugh Fraser Leslie of Leith Hall plantation.
Copy letters, 1847-1848, of Hugh Fraser Leslie to John Hall, Messrs J Hall and Co, Adam Newall, James Sommerville and two unnamed correspondents concerning the management of Leith Hall estate, its possible sale, shipments of sugar and coffee, and economic problems in Jamaica (folios 1-11v).
Copy letters, 1846, of Hugh Fraser Leslie to Messrs J Hall and Co and James Heighington concerning receipt of a power of attorney for Leith Hall estate (folio 48).
Letter of Eleanor Affleck, Jamaica, to her daughter, Sarah, in Edinburgh, discussing slaves, their impending emancipation and compensation from Government.
Letter of John Adinston in Jamaica to his brother in Scotland.
Letter of John Ferguson to Hugh Hamilton.
On the management of the Pemberton sugar plantation in Jamaica.
Letter of John Wedderburn to James Smith.
Sent from Jamaica, but mostly concerns Wedderburn's business interests in Scotland.
Letter of Malcolm Laing to William Perrin.
On the sale of the empty plantation at Retrieve Mountain and sugar transportation from Jamaica.
Letters from Jamaica of John Clark, John Cunningham and Colin MacLarty to friends and relatives at Greenock.
Medical Journal of Dr Normand Morison.
Notes and sketches made on voyages from Jamaica to London and back.
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 and concerning the Holden family of Baldovie; with a document concerning Thomas Greig, and with genealogical notes on the Guthries of Guthrie.
Papers of Lord Pitman.
Comprising:
1. travel journals, 1924 and circa 1930, concerning Jamaica and Italy
2. "Tatters: a Memoir", 1937
3. Noelle Reid "A Pleasant Walk to Music Land", 1931
4. letters to Lord Pitman.
Papers of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres.
Concerns principally their estates in Fife and Lancashire, but includes material concerning the creation of the "Bibliotheca Lindesiana", the management of estates in Jamaica, and the literary, diplomatic, and political activities of the family.
Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.
Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Scots in Jamaica, including letters of the Earl of Balcarres, the Fyffe family and other Scots in Jamaica.
Typewritten lists concenring materials of Scottish interest in the National Library of Jamaica, formerly the West India Reference Library.
Typewritten list of Scottish place names in Jamaica.
Photocopies of papers of Graham of Airth family.
Including:
1. correspondence, 1762-1820, of Ann Graham, with some other Graham family letters
2. memoirs of James Graham
3. "View of the Sums Received from the Estate of Ardoch Penn, Jamaica", 1828.