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Accounts and related correspondence for alterations to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.
Agreement between Domenico Ronca and Thomas Carlyle and receipt of Ronca to Carlyle.
Agreement and receipt concern the keeping of fowl at 6 Cheyne Row.
With letter of Jane W Carlyle to John A Carlyle concerning the building of a client room by Thomas Carlyle.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
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.
Archives concerning Polish students at the University of St Andrews.
Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.
Balcarres Papers.
Business and personal correspondence with related financial records of W A L Marr, tea planter, India.
Most of the papers concern his work on the Malayalam, Chembra and Arrapetta tea plantations, but there is also material for the social life of the British in India at the time particularly the Arbuckle Trophy Football Tournament, the Ootacomund Club and the Wynaad Golf Club in the 1960s.
Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.
This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Correspondence and financial and administrative papers of the Sligo and Smith-Sligo family of Inzievar.
Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.
Correspondence and other material of the families of John Hill Burton and his parents-in-law, Cosmo Innes and Isabella Rose of Kilravock.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
Robert Paul, manager of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, married Charlotte, the daughter of John Erskine of Cambus, advocate, in 1814. The connection of the Pauls with the Erskines of Alva, and later with the Erskine Murrays, remained strong, and the antiquarian interests of the Reverend Robert Paul, Free Church minister at Dollar, led him to examine many of the Erskine papers. Some of these remained with the Paul’s and now form part of the collection.
Correspondence and papers chiefly relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus, in which Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1854) played an important part.
Correspondence and papers concerning the estates of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, Politician, and of his wife, Madeleine Harriet Dagmar Elliot, née Ryan.
Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the painter, Hope James Stewart (died 1881).
The correspondence (folio 1) contains personal letters, letters on financial matters, and letters about his work. A few of these, dated 1885-1888 and addressed to his wife, concern his portrait of Sir William Hamilton. The correspondence is followed by accounts and financial papers (folio 145), and by miscellaneous papers (folio 185).