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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1767. A large part of the papers consist of his essays, drafts and notes, many of which were used in his books.
Papers of John Blythe Kinross, financier, including other papers of his family, including his father, John Kinross RSA.
Papers of John Blythe Kinross, financier, son of John Kinross RSA, including some papers of his father's. Mostly concerning business interests, with some family and personal material.
Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer.
Papers of Sir Robert Strange, the engraver, and his brother-in-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, encompassing the period from the '45 Rebellion to the early 19th century, with some earlier family documents and later genealogical material.
Papers of the Cadell family of Grange, mainly relating to their industrial and commercial activities throughout Scotland; including papers of Henry Moubray Cadell relating to the Geological Survey of Scotland.
Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
Papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Papers of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
Papers of the family of Chalmers of Auldbar (or Aldbar), near Brechin.
Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
Papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall.
Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet, married in 1843 Henrietta Ramage Liston, the great niece and heiress of Sir Robert Liston, the diplomatist. He then assumed the additional name of Liston before his own.
Papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell.
The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
Papers of the Home family of Whitfield and Ninewells.
Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Papers of the Shortreed family of Jedburgh concerning the family's connection with Sir Walter Scott and business and family affairs of the Shortreeds themselves.
Papers of the Steuart family.
Papers of various members of the families of Trotter.
Part of the papers of the family of Forbes of Culloden.
Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.