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21 documents relating to the lands of Curriehill near Edinburgh.
Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Accounts and papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company).
Accounts and vouchers of the Faculty of Advocates.
Accounts of charge and discharge between the Ladder and Kelso Road Trust and George Jordan, writer in Kelso.
These accounts include money received from toll houses, and all payments for repairs surveys and legal expenses, and occasionally notes concerning toll keepers.
Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
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.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Copies of accounts of and documents connected with the English Mint.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Correspondence and legal papers concerning the Crinan Canal.
Most of the papers concern the Canal proprietors' negotiations with the local landowners, at first to acquire land to build the Canal, and later in disputes about rights and ownership. There are also records of tolls paid, and accounts for damages to property.
Correspondence and other papers chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn.
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1660-1822, of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2889);
Correspondence, accounts and other papers, [?1698-?1853], chiefly of the Scotts of Raeburn (MS.2890).
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, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), the artist and antiquary; including some earlier material concerning the Skene family.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning William Holms and his family.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune.
Concerning Bethune`s military career in Persia.
Including instructions, firmans (royal mandate or decree), commissions and bills.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
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.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and legal papers of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside.
The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.