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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.
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.
Balcarres Papers.
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.
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, 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 George, Robert and Thomas Gibson, cattle and sheep breeders in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Anderson`s personal affairs, his business interests (as lawyer, factor, and Postmaster-General), and his historical researches (which culminated in the posthumous publication of ‘Diplomata Scotiae’) are all represented.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, and his family.
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library, including letters concerning proposed building works.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown.
Correspondence and papers of the Murrays of Stanhope.
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.