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Miscellaneous correspondence of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
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Identifier: MS.9735
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Draft letters and memoranda of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, on Indian and naval affairs, the proceedings against the Duke of York, 1809, and family matters, 1794-1810, undated (folio 1);
(ii) Letter, with copies of other correspondence, from Admiral Sir David Milne to Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, concerning intrusions of American fishermen into Canadian waters, and measures taken against them, 1818 (folio 48);
(iii) Letters to Robert...
Dates:
1794-1820.
Miscellaneous correspondence of the Highland Society of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.12
Dates:
1827-1833, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
File
Identifier: MS.546
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Printed demand addressed to Sir Thomas Pope of Wroxton, signed by King Charles I and countersigned by Sir Edward Littleton, Lord Chancellor, for a voluntary contribution to the loan raised against the Scots invasion, 1643/1644. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter to the High Sheriff of the County of Montgomery, signed by King Charles I and countersigned by Littleton, 1644. Half the loan raised in the County is to be paid to Prince Rupert for the army...
Dates:
1643-1869, undated.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
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Identifier: F.R.339e/17
Scope and Contents
The papers include the following.(i) Election, 1758, of Mr Adam Wallace as Keeper, and arrangement as to Mr Wallace Goodall as Keeper, 1765.(ii) Resignation of Mr Wallace as Keeper.(iii) Extrait de Catalogue de la Bibliotheque du Roi Paris, 22 May 1765.(iv) Application, 1770-1772, to the Town Council for more accommodation.(v) Report, 1771, of the curators on Mr Alexander Brown's salary.(vi) Letter, dated 11 September...
Dates:
1765-1780.
Miscellaneous manuscripts.
File
Identifier: MS.2618
Scope and Contents
The principle items are as follows.Letter, undated, of Alexander Alesius, Professor of Theology at Leipzig, to a patron, thanking him for favours. (Folio 1.)'A briefe relacon of all such passages as happened dureing the Seidge of the Castle of Edinburgh' (of 1640), written by one of the garrison in reply to ‘A True representation of the proceedings of the Kingdome of Scotland’ by the Estates of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1640). An item torn from a manuscript book. (Folio...
Dates:
[1640, or after]-1866, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library, including inventories, petitions and accounts.
File
Identifier: F.R.343/9
Dates:
1780-1836.
Miscellaneous personal and political correspondence of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount.
File
Identifier: MS.9370
Scope and Contents
The letters are largely concerned with applications for patronage, and home (especially Scottish) politics. Individual correspondents include: William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Lord President Charles Hope, Lord Chief Commissioner William Adam and the 4th Duke of Atholl. Among the draft letters and papers of the 1st Viscount are: several memoranda on patronage matters addressed to William Pitt, 1799-1800, drafts of letters to the Duke of Portland, 1806, and...
Dates:
1782-1849.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook of conversations and memorandums, probably compiled by the factor, on the Upper Foyers Estate.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8870
Dates:
1900-1913.
Notebook of William Stewart, elder, Deputy Town Clerk, Edinburgh, containing rough notes of a legal nature and memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.19312
Scope and Contents
This may have been the notebook on which William Stewart's fuller protocol book would have been based.
Dates:
1566-1585.
Notebooks belonging to John, 4th Earl of Loudoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5728-5729
Dates:
1750-1765.
Notes and memoranda in the hand of James Chalmers, being materials for the use of his uncle, George Chalmers, towards book IV chapter 1, `of the Saxon Colonization of North-Britain` of volume I of the latter`s ‘Caledonia’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.27
Scope and Contents
The date of the manuscript has been suggested by the date of the watermark of the paper, 1801.
Dates:
1801, or after.
'Notes and Memorandums calculated to refresh the mind of the Writer and to excite Reflection. Partly transcribed from a previous book of Notandums' by Alexander Kincaid Mackenzie.
Item
Identifier: MS.10992
Scope and Contents
Alexander Mackenzie was a merchant who became Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1817. Much of the material is autobiographical and covers the author's life up to 1829. It includes family matters (especially the military career in India of his eldest son, James), finance, and politics with special reference to their effect on trade and the economy. There are also remarks on events in Edinburgh, particularly during Mackenzie's provostship, such as royal visits, the introduction of gas lighting, and...
Dates:
[1829, or after.]
Official correspondence sent by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, of Inverneil, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, chiefly during the former's Governorship of Madras, 1786-1789.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3837-3839
Scope and Contents
The correspondence, which includes lengthy memoranda and minutes by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell and others, deals in considerable detail with the political, civil, and military affairs of Madras, and covers such subjects as relations with the French, the Dutch, and the Indian Princes, finance, trade, army appointments, contracts, and topography.
Dates:
1785-1794.
Papers and photographic plates collected by James Bell Salmond for the 1st and 2nd editions of his ‘Wade in Scotland’; with correspondence and press cuttings concerning the book.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7188-7190
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1942.
Papers chiefly concerning teinds.
File
Identifier: MS.1547
Scope and Contents
The volume contains: ‘Observes concerning tithes’, a series of enactments on the subject, dating from 1631 to 1648 (page 1); ‘Some remarks annent the nullity of tacks of tithes’ (page 14); ‘Remarks annent tithes out of the Acting Commissiary’ (dates from 1627 to 1631) (page 20); ‘Method of procedur in localling augmentation of stipends’ (page 26); ‘Nota annent charters cum decimis inclusis’ (page 47); ‘The summonds intended by King Charles upon his revocation agt. &c.’ (page 53);...
Dates:
1627-1648, 1690-1691.
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 concerning Kelso racecourse.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9399
Scope and Contents
Includes race notices, 1834-1844 and 1883-1886, photographs, circa 1900-1920, and financial and historial memoranda.
Dates:
1834-1920.
Papers concerning the families of Gardiner, Milne, and Gregor, Banffshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7798
Dates:
1721-circa 1944.
Papers concerning "Writing Together: an International Festival of Writing", Glasgow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10391
Scope and Contents
Includes reports, memoranda, committee minutes and letters from among others, Sorley MacLean, Naomi Mitchison and Edwin Morgan.
Dates:
1990.
Papers of and concerning Lord Boyd Orr.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6545
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.
Dates:
1938-1971.
Papers of Colonel George Cadell of the Madras Native Infantry, and of the firm of Arbuthnot and Company, merchants and agents in Madras.
File
Identifier: MS.9861
Scope and Contents
George Cadell's papers, 1814-1837, are chiefly financial and include material on the Deccan prize-money (folio 1). The Arbuthnot papers, 1825-1831, undated, relate chiefly to financial affairs and commerce, with memoranda concerning business administration and the production of fabrics (folio 22).
Dates:
1814-1837, undated.