Correspondence.
Found in 1781 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Correspondence and papers of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, chiefly addressed to him from the Low Countries and relating to his regiment, the Scots Greys, and the War of the Austrian Succession.
Included are a few letters addressed to Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell of Lawers.
Correspondence and papers of John Forbes, Lieutenant-General in the Portuguese service.
Correspondence and papers of John Hill Burton, advocate and historian, consisting chiefly of letters to Burton, together with a few miscellaneous notes and memoranda written by him.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
Correspondence and papers of John Strain.
Concerning mining in Ayrshire and railways in Argentina.
Correspondence and papers of John Thomson, Professor of General Pathology at Edinburgh, and of his sons William, Professor of Medicine at Glasgow, and Allen, the biologist.
Much of the collection is of medical interest, but it also includes correspondence on family matters.
Correspondence and papers of Jubilee 2000, Scotland, the campaign to cancel third world debt.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald.
Concerning Macdonald`s system of telegraphy.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General William Taylor and his family.
The contents are as follows: (i) Family correspondence of Charles J Taylor with some letters to his wife, 1835-1877, undated, including letters from General Taylor to his son after Charles left India as a child (folio 1); (ii) Financial papers, 1845-1866, of General Taylor (folio 76); (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1878-1898, undated, chiefly concerning Kenneth N Innes Taylor who died in Argentina in 1898 (folio 156).
Correspondence and papers of Lord Macleod of Fuinary.
Includes papers concerning the Iona Community.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of Major-General Stewart A Lithgow, of Fauhope, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order, Army Medical Services, with a few earlier letters of his family.
Correspondence and papers of Margaret O W Oliphant and others.
The collection consists of letters of and to and papers of Margaret Oliphant and members of her family (MSS.23209-23211), her bank pass-book (MS.23212), diaries (MSS.23213-23216) and manuscripts of two of her works (MSS.23217-23219).
Correspondence and papers of Mark Sprot of Garnkirk and his family.
Correspondence and papers of Mary Buchanan Drew, with correspondence of Lady Lilian Adam Smith.
Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.