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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.
Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.
Item
Identifier: MS.14277
Scope and Contents
The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).
Dates:
1863-1896, 1927, undated.
Papers concerning the families of Gardiner, Milne, and Gregor, Banffshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7798
Dates:
1721-circa 1944.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.