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Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20351-20400
Scope and Contents
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1773-1933, undated.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
Family papers of the Frasers of Belladrum, 1563-1786; including a copy of one earlier document 1203x1222 concerning Brice De Douglas, Bishop of Moray and John Bisset of Lovat.
File
Identifier: Acc.11244
Dates:
1563-1786.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Letters and documents of Captain William Leith, Stromness, and his sons.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4968
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Peter Leith to Capt William Leith, 15 Sept 1798.Capt William Leith to Peter Leith, 28 June 1800.Nicholas Leith to Capt William Leith, 3 June 1801.Nicholas Leith to Capt William Leith, 1 April 1802.Charles Leith to Capt William Leith, 28 Jan 1804.Peter Leith to Capt William Leith, 8 March 1804.William Leith to Capt William Leith, 5 July 1804.Nicholas Leith to Capt...
Dates:
1798-1846, undated.
Letters and papers associated with the son and daughters of Allan Ramsay, the painter, and their relations.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2903-2908
Dates:
1752-1859, undated.
Letters and papers of the family of Stewart of Newton, afterwards Stewart of Lochrig.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1792-1793
Scope and Contents
The letters and papers deal chiefly with family matters; some describe the doings of officers of the 7th Dragoons and 56th Foot.
Dates:
1705-1835, undated.
Letters and papers of the geologist, Leonard Horner, and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2213-2222
Dates:
1782-1880.
Microfilm of correspondence, papers, charters and other formal documents of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1863) and of his son Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, American and West Indian Merchant in London, who died at Bath in 1805.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.35-53
Dates:
1768-1934.
Microfilm of family and genealogical papers of the family of Mackintosh of Farr.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.65
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1799-1821, of Mrs Catharine Mackintosh of Farr to her sons James John, 4th of Farr, and Alexander, 5th of Farr, in the East India Company's Madras army, chiefly on family and local affairs (MS.9853); 'Notes of the Genealogy of the House of Mackintosh and of the Different Branches of the Name that have Sprung from that ancient House; With the Genealogy of Several other Families connected therewith. Part of which is intended to form an...
Dates:
[1799-1937.]
Microfilm of family papers of the Grahams of Airth, notably of and concerning Charles Stirling, the estate of Ardoch Penn and Jamaica.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2079-2081
Dates:
1775-1835.
Microfilm of historical and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.25
Dates:
1563-1st half of 18th century.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Papers of and relating to George Rose (1744-1818), Statesman, and several of his descendants, notably his son Sir George Henry Rose, Diplomatist, and his grandson Hugh Henry Rose, Baron Strathnairn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3795-3801
Scope and Contents
The correspondence deals with various personal, family, and official matters.
Dates:
1776-1896, undated
Papers of the Shortreed family of Jedburgh concerning the family's connection with Sir Walter Scott and business and family affairs of the Shortreeds themselves.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8993-8998
Dates:
1792-1930.
Transcripts, chiefly, of letters and papers of Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock and his descendants, and of a few other letters, all of which seem to be connected with the Hamiltons of Silvertonhill.
File
Identifier: MS.1671
Scope and Contents
All are transcripts except drafts of a clause to be added to the Act of Security, circa 1711, and a letter of John Hamilton, 1775, which are originals.
Dates:
1666-1775, undated.