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Correspondence and papers of Charles Steuart, Cashier and Paymaster, American Board of Customs.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5025-5046
Dates:
1747-1798, undated.
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 George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23171-23192
Scope and Contents
The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.
Dates:
1846-1924, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5277
Scope and Contents
Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1879-1897, circa 1940-1971.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20262-20267
Dates:
1708-1958, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Mark Sprot of Garnkirk and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10309-10323
Dates:
1827-1895.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12345/1-189
Dates:
1960-2002, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning borrowers and a list of defaulters.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/50
Dates:
1825-1906.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
File
Identifier: F.R.341
Dates:
1819-1879.
Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.19420-19571
Scope and Contents
Arthur Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto and his papers form a valuable supplement to the Minto collection. Included here are papers of Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Emma, Lady Hislop, the grandmother of Arthur Elliot. Particularly well represented is Elliot's mother, Nina, Countess of Minto, her papers being especially rich in her correspondence and literary manuscripts. As an active Member of Parliament over a period of...
Dates:
1828-1956, 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 and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8501-8770
Scope and Contents
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Dates:
1898-1955.
Correspondence and research papers of the Seanachaidh (historian) of the Clan Mackay Society with some records of the organisation
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11994
Dates:
circa 1887-2000.
Correspondence, autobiographical papers, and sermons of the Very Reverend Donald Macleod, Doctor of Divinity (1831-1916), minister of The Park parish, Glasgow from 1869 to 1909, and editor of the periodical ‘Good words’ from 1872 to 1905.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9827-9833
Scope and Contents
Most of the correspondence concerns Donald Macleod's editorship of ‘Good words’, including many letters from contemporary authors and men of letters, with some letters of his brother, Dr Norman Macleod, minister of The Barony parish, Glasgow, and the first editor of ‘Good words’.
Dates:
1856-1925, undated.
Correspondence between Thomas G N Haldane and Bruno Brandi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6064
Dates:
1934-1939.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10888/1-82
Dates:
1920s-1990s
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.
Correspondence, letter-books, diaries and other papers of missionaries and missionary societies.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.99- is now Acc.4393.
Dates:
19th century.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Correspondence, papers and personal account-books of Charles Herries, a merchant in London who was Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, and correspondence and papers of his younger son, Lieutenant-General Sir William Lewis Herries and of, and concerning, other members of the family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15353-15368
Dates:
1703-1939, undated.
Cuthbert Lennox and Andrew Melrose, "George Douglas Brown" (London, 1903), with annotations of R S Craig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5657
Dates:
1903.
Dean Brown’s prayerbook, written and illuminated in the Netherlands.
Item
Identifier: MS.10270
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Rotae, dated 1499, for finding the Golden Number, Indiction and Dominical Letter. (Folio 1 verso.)(ii) Calendar in red and black. (Folio 4.) Entries in red include Saints Palladius (6 July) and Machar (12 November), 'Dedicacio ecciesie cathedralis aberdonensis' (3 November) and the obits of Elizabeth Lauder, 1494 (11 June) and Master Robert Brown, 1460 (23 December). A note in red concerns the mission to Rome in 1497 of Master James...
Dates:
[Circa 1498.]
Designs for book decorations, stage sets and garden buildings by William McLaren.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11560
Scope and Contents
Includes a sketchbook, specimans of calligraphy and printed books designed or decorated by McLaren.
Dates:
1943-1968.
Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20080-20207
Dates:
[1823, or after]-1935, undated.