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Barbara Balfour-Melville, "The Balfours of Pilrig" (1907), with interleavings annotated by Sir Graham Balfour.
With photographs and letters including five, 1870, 1887-1892, of Robert L Stevenson, and two, 1859, 1869, of Florence Nightingale.
Copies of press cuttings and other papers and photographs of the Macarthur family, Nairn, Scotland and Manitoba, Canada.
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 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Further papers of William Walls.
The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.
Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.
Papers concerning the 10th and 11th Earls of Selkirk and the Selkirk peerage.
Photograph of genealogical table of the Fitzalan, Howard and Houstoun families.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.
Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.