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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.
Archives concerning Polish students at the University of St Andrews.
Archives of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Edinburgh Branch.
Book of the Incorporation of Coopers of South Leith.
Contemporary copy of specifications by John Rennie and others for the Crinan Canal.
Also included are John Rennie's estimate for the work (folio 33 verso) and notes on the cost of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1789 (folio 47).
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
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 the Faculty of Advocates Library relating to Wodrow manuscripts and pamphlets
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 and papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Daybook, 1728-1753, of Robert and Archibald Dickson, nurserymen at Hassendeanburn.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.