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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 concerning the estates of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, Politician, and of his wife, Madeleine Harriet Dagmar Elliot, née Ryan.
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown.
Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and personal papers of a cadet branch of the Setons of Cariston, Fife, being the family of James Seton, Lieutenant 54th Foot.
Estate and family papers, 16th century-18th centuries, of the Livingstons, Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, with some correspondence, 19th century, of the family of Forbes of Callendar.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Estate papers of the Ogilvy family of Inverquharity.
Family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith, including correspondence, financial papers and bound estate papers.
Also included are general and literary correspondence, 1863-1933, and some literary manuscripts of Sir Herbert Maxwell, seventh baronet.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.
Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.
Formal and legal documents, financial records and correspondence of the Skene family of Pitlour.
Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.
Maxwell of Monreith papers, comprising family and estate correspondence, financial papers, and bound estate papers; with early charters of Maxwells and of Blair of Adamton. Includes general and literary correspondence, and some literary manuscripts, of Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
Papers of the family of Gordon of Halmyre and Gordonstoun, including correspondence, catalogues of books, commissions, financial papers and legal papers.
Papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
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 Fraser family of Strichen; with papers of the Fraser family of Lovat.
The papers are chiefly those of the Frasers of Strichen. Those of the Frasers of Lovat relate to the Strichen family establishing its claim to the Fraser of Lovat title.