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Account and letter book of William Angus of North Grange, Lindores, elder of Abdie Church.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17949
Scope and Contents

The account and letter book contains tables of agricultural wages 1857-1873, letters concerning local affairs 1846-1867, and letters and statements of Abdie church 1835-1875. At the back there is a record of baptisms of the Angus Family 1789-1840 (folio 17).

Dates: 1835-1875.

Account book of the Trustees of James Dundas of Dundas (died 1780).

 Item
Identifier: MS.6523
Scope and Contents

The accounts are between the Trustees and tenants, employees, tradesmen, etc. A loose sheet, containing draft accounts relating to 1794-1796 has been placed at the beginning of the volume (folio i).

Dates: 1776-1806.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.5
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Calendar in black, blue and red (folio 3). Entries in red include Saints Edward (18 March) and Dunstan (19 May), `Depositio sancti Augustini` (26 May), ordination of St Gregory (3 September) and translations of Saints Hugh (6 October) and Edward (13 October).(ii) Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent (folio 9) and from Christmas to the Purification (folio 11 verso).(iii) Confession, attributed in the...
Dates: Late 14th century.

Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents

Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.

Dates: 1838-1893.

Commonplace book of Hew Love.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7502
Scope and Contents

Including translations from Ovid, Virgil, and Terence.

Dates: 1667-1668.

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

 Item
Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.

Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).

 File
Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents

The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.

Dates: Early 19th century.

Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates: 15th century.

Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.15001-15195
Scope and Contents

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

Dates: 1757-1934, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13065/1-76
Scope and Contents The collection reflects Sir Lewis Robertson`s personal and business activities during the later years of his life. The correspondence files, 2003-2008, and letter books, 2004-2008, show his active involvement in many charitable and cultural bodies until his death in November 2008. Of particular interest are several volumes of speeches and interviews, 1989-2003, and three diaries, 1978-1980, dated during his time as Director of the Scottish Development Agency. Sir Lewis Robertson kept an...
Dates: Circa 1940-2008.

Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: MS.972
Scope and Contents

The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.

Dates: 1836-1841, 1881.

“Een seer schoon ende deuoet boexken inhoudende vele schoon ghebekens vvaer mede een Christen mensche hem sal oeffenen om die eeuvvighe salicheyt te vervverue ... Anno 1575.”

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.12
Scope and Contents A prayer book from the Low Countries written in 1575. The work contains various prayers in Dutch, as well as the seven penitential psalms and the litany.The work is written in cursive hands in black ink with rubrics and some initials in red. There appear to be four different hands present in the volume.The main body of the work is written in the same cursive hand, while two decorative elements are accompanied by a different bookhand. Folios 154v-158v are written in a...
Dates: 1575.

Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13290
Scope and Contents The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...
Dates: 1651-1960

Further papers of and relating to Harvey Holton.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14023/1-4

Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description

Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers

Dates: 1712-1947, undated.

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Sutherland Estates 2
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
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Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Queen's Own Regiment of Dragoons 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Cameron, Andrew, 1929-2022 (SNP activist) 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow 1
Close Theatre, Glasgow 1
Cope, Sir John, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1690-1760 1
Dalrymple, Sir Hew Whitefoord, 1st Baronet, General, 1750-1830 1
Denton, Jean Margaret Alan, daughter of Alan Stevenson, civil engineer, née Stevenson, then Thomson, 1846-1900 1
Douglas, family, of Fechil 1
Dunbar, family, of Mochrum 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh 1
Gentleman, James, merchant, Edinburgh, d 1854 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Gordon, family, of Fechil 1
Gower, Cromartie Sutherland Leveson, 4th Duke of Sutherland, 1851-1913 1
Gower, Elizabeth Leveson, Duchess of Sutherland, nee Sutherland, 1765-1839 1
Gower, George Granville Leveson, 1st Duke of Sutherland, 1758-1833 1
Gower, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-, 2nd Duke of Sutherland 1
Gower, George Granville William Sutherland Leveson, 3rd Duke of Sutherland , 1828-1892 1
Gower, George Sutherland Leveson, 5th Duke of Sutherland, 1888-1963 1
Gray (family, of Carntyne and Anstruther ) 1
Gray (family, of Kilmany ) 1
Hadfield, Jen (poet and artist) 1
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 1
Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 1
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, intelligence officer and author, called Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935 1
Loch, James, Advocate, 1780-1855 1
Love, Hew, schoolmaster at Johnshill, Lochwinnoch, fl 1667-1668 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
McLean, Lex, comedian, 1907-1975 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Party of Scotland 1
National Union of Mine Workers, Scottish Area 1
Neill and Co Ltd, Edinburgh, printers 1
Pound, Ezra Loomis, poet, 1885-1972 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008: former owner 1
Royal Celtic Society 1
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston : former owner 1
Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse 1
Scottish Covenant Association, Scottish Convention 1
Scottish National Party 1
Shiells, Archibald, merchant, Edinburgh, 1677-1752 1
Sim, William, colour manufacturer, b 1843 1
Spottiswoode, Robert, Lord Dunipace, Lord President of the Court of Session, 1596-1646 1
Stewart, Robert, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (statesman) 1
Sutherland, family, Earls and Dukes of Sutherland 1
Thomson, Thomas Alexander Gibson, merchant, Galle, Ceylon, fl 1872-1928 1
Tods, Murray and Jamieson, Edinburgh, WS 1
United General Sea Box of Bo'ness, 1634- 1
United Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, 1475-, Edinburgh 1
Wilsone, family, Stirlingshire, of Murrayshall 1
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