The papers concern: (i) The finances of the Post Office, 1778-1789 (folio 1);(ii) The provision of stationery for public use, and the establishment of a Stationery Office, 1732-1787.

Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.

Andrew Carnegie had offered a large sum of money to be used for a town-planning scheme to enhance Dunfermline and in 1903 Patrick Geddes and Thomas Mawson were chosen to draw up reports in competition on the redevelopment. The papers cover the period before and after the publication of the report, and include letters from Geddes to various educationists, economists, sociologists, and academics.

Included are papers of Robert Graham “which were in my private box relative to Lord Lynedoch's matters at the time of his death 18 Decr. 1843”.

The papers concern geography, affairs, etc., with a memorandum by Henry Dundas on a treaty with Holland, 1787, and correspondence regarding Portugese possessions.

The contents are as follows.

(i) Papers concerning general affairs and trade, 1781-1823, undated, including debts owed by the Chinese at Canton to George Smith, a merchant there, and other British subjects; the trade in tin and tea; and affrays between the British and Chinese; with accounts of places on the route from India to China (folio 1);

(ii) The case of J J Voute and Sons and their purchase of tea, 1787-1788 (folio 214).

The papers concern the Company's shipping (ship-building, sailings, personnel, victualling, cargoes, harbours, the supply of timber in the East); also dealings of the Royal Navy with the Company and other matters connected with Eastern waters.

Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.

Volumes entitled 'Individuals' contain correspondence regarding patronage and other matters of personal interest (requests for employment, promotion, and pensions, complaints of unjust treatment, etc.). These papers frequently give information of a more general kind.

The 4th Earl of Minto's main preoccupations were with the raising of a voyageur force for service in Egypt, the employment of Canadian forces in the imperial service, and the rebellion of Louis Riel in the North-West in which he was personally involved.

The papers relate to the following:

(i) Canary Islands, 1797 (folio 1);

(ii) St Helena, 1788-1812, undated (folio 4);

(iii) Cape of Good Hope, 1782-1810 (folio 22);

(iv) Mauritius and Bourbon, 1787-1812 (folio 75).

The contents are as follows.

(i) Papers relating to the disputed march between the lands of Urquhart and Pittencrieff, 1582 (18th century copy), 1635-1636, 1697-1753 (folio 1);

(ii) Coal tacks and related papers for Urquhart and Lochgelly, 1723-1746, 1860, 1872, 1888 (folio 23);

(iii) Legal reports and memoranda relating to coal, 1658, 1682, 1729-1747, including a report by William Adam on the Lochgelly coal, 1747 (folio 219).

The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers concerning routes to India by the Red Sea and overland, the possibilities of a French or Russian attack on India from the north-west, the missions of John Malcolm and Sir Harford Jones to Persia, and affairs in Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan, etc., 1790-1810, undated (folio 1);

(ii) Correspondence between Commodore Gawen W Hamilton, Prince Alexandras Maurokordatos, and others on Greek affairs, 1827 (copies).

The volume includes papers concerning the Alkmaar operations of 1799 (folio 74) the campaign of the Aaland Islands in 1808 (folio 82), Waterloo (folio 110), Caesar`s Commentaries (folio 190), and Agincourt (folio 210), and an autobiographical memoir by Murray (folio 224).