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50 letters and cards of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
File
Identifier: Acc.9758
Scope and Contents
A collection of 50 letters and cards, 1900-1937, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, to various persons as listed below.Rev P M Aldous, 26 January 1933.Sir J L Baird, Bart, 30 November 1922.Vernon Bartlett, 10 March 1936.Frederick Bason, 10 June 1929.J S Billingham, 16 May 1922; 20 July 1925; 30 April 1926.Miss ?Bourdillon, 13 October 1923.A Poyntz Bower, 6 February 1935.Curtis Brown, 7 March...
Dates:
1900-1937.
Copy of the contract by Sir William Alexander for the first settlement of Nova Scotia.
File
Identifier: Acc.11716
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of a letter signed by James VI and I granting Alexander funds for the colony.
Dates:
1622.
Correspondence and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library buildings.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/46
Dates:
1824, 1832, 1846, 1896-1900.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.304
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous works, chiefly theological, written in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.870
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents
Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates:
1567-1596, and undated.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning James Sutherland.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/5
Dates:
1692-1808.