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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Includes authorizations granting the power to perform a task or duty and documents appointing or hiring someone to perform a task.

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Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.

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Identifier: Acc.13290
Scope and Contents The papers include titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.Family papers include Elizabeth, Duchess-Countess of Sutherland’s Scottish sketchbooks and a series of Game Books recording the activities of the many shooting and fishing parties organised for the Sutherland family and their guests. The manuscript of Gilbert Gordon of Sallagh’s ‘Continuation of the Genealogy of the Family of Sutherland’, 1651, is of...
Dates: 1651-1960