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Letter, 1780, of Laurence Oliphant, Laird of Gask, to David S Erskine.

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Identifier: Acc.9161
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With letter of Sir David Carnegie to Messrs Spottiswoode and Robertson.

Dates: 1780 and undated.

Letter, 1792, of John Gillies to the Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.8532
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With a letter, undated, to Harry Plunket Greene, fragment of a letter, undated, of Cécile Chaminade, and other scraps.

Dates: 1792 and undated.

Letter of Adam Drummond to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.8712
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Concerning a portrait of Sir James Balfour.

Dates: 1787.

Letter of Charles Lyttelton, Bishop of Carlisle, to David, Lord Cardross, later 11th Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.11541
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Concerns historical matters and preferment.

Dates: 1766.

Letter of Lord Hailes to the Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.14360
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Thanking Buchan for an honour given by the Society of Antiquaries and a proposal for a critical edition of cartularies.

Dates: 1781.

Letters of Robert Pearse Gillies to Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, and others.

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Identifier: Acc.11453
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Letters concern literary, antiquarian and social matters.

Includes a file on the provenance of these letter books and their significance.

Dates: 1811-1827.

Letters of, to and concerning Colonel James Gardiner and his relations by marriage.

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Identifier: Acc.11647
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Includes two letters of Philip Doddridge, which shed light on Gardiner`s piety and non-conformity, and two of David, 11th Earl of Buchan to Lady Frances Gardiner.

Dates: circa 1745.

Letters of various distinguished writers.

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Identifier: Acc.11963
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Writers include Henry Mackenzie, Thomas Chalmers and William M Hetherington, and correspondence of David Stewart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.

Dates: 1743-1833.

Note of 11th Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.8667
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Concerning George Chapman.

With an engraving of Buchan.

Dates: circa 1770-1829.

Transcripts of letters of and to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.8788
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Volume made at Buchan`s behest as one of his "Gleanings of Literature", and sent to the Bishop of Llandaff.

Letters concern Celtic languages and correspondents include Sir James Foulis of Colinton, Charles Vallancey, the Reverend Donald MacQueen and Jacob Bryant Phillipps.

Dates: circa 1794.

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  • Names: Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 X

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Letters. Correspondence. 13
Notes. 3
Letter books. 2
Correspondence. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
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Names
Aitchison, Alexander, director and printer of the "Encyclopaedia Perthensis", fl 1805 1
Blacklock, Thomas, poet and writer, 1721-1791 1
Bryant, Jacob, antiquary and classical scholar, d 1804 1
Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, 1st Baronet, styled 13th Baron Chandos, bibliographer, 1762-1837 1
Buchanan, James, tutor to David S Erksine, 11th Earl of Buchan, fl 1760 1
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Campbell, R M M, Edinburgh, fl 1984-1985 1
Carnegie, Sir David, 4th Baronet, of Pitcarrow, 1753-1805 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Chaminade, Cécile Louise Stéphanie, composer, 1857-1944 1
Chapman, George, educationist, 1723-1806 1
Coutts, Thomas, banker, 1735-1822 1
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 1
Dempster, George, of Dunnichen and Skibo, Advocate, 1732-1818 1
Doddridge, Philip, Minister of Castle Hill Church, Northampton, 1702-1751 1
Drummond, Adam, correspondent of David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, fl 1787 1
Foulis, James, 5th baronet of Colinton, 1714-1791 1
Gardiner, James, Colonel, d 1745 1
Gardiner, Lady Frances, wife of James Gardiner, Colonel, née Erskine, b 1700 1
Gillies, John, historian, 1747-1836 1
Gillies, Robert Pearse, of Balmakewan, advocate, 1788-1858 1
Greene, Harry Plunket, singer, 1865-1936: recipient 1
Griffiths, Julius, correspondent of David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, fl 1804-1824: recipient 1
Hetherington, William Maxwell, Minister of Free St Paul's, Edinburgh, 1803-1865 1
Lyttelton, Charles, Bishop of Carlisle, 1714-1768 1
MacQueen, Donald, Minister of Kilmuir-in-Trotternish, d 1785 1
Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 1
Messrs Spottiswoode and Robertson, London, solicitors 1
Oliphant, Laurence, of Gask, d 1792 1
Phillipps, Sir Thomas, Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts, 1792-1872: former owner 1
Robertson, William, Richmond, Surrey, fl 1791 1
Thomson, James, poet, 1700-1748 1
Vallancey, Charles, General, antiquarian and military surveyor, c 1726-1812 1
Watson, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff, 1737-1816: former owner 1
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