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Collection of manuscript material transferred from printed theses collection, 1637-late 19th century, chiefly consisting of German academic papers, but including a small cache of Scottish legal papers, 19th century.
With some Scottish legal papers, 19th century, including account of the death of a child chimney sweep in Edinburgh in 1817.
Correspondence and documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith, Professor of Evangelistic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and John Smith, tenant in Libberton, Lanarkshire.
The families of Thomas and John Smith were related by marriage and an outline genealogy is provided (MS.7185, folio i.).
Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.
Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.