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The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.

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Included is a draft of a pamphlet 'Reasons for extending the Militia Acts to the Disarmed countys of Scotland', attributed to George Dempster (folio 77).

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The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...

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Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...

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A miscellany of charters and other formal documents from the collection of John Smith, Edinburgh. Most of the documents are deeds relating to land tenure in East Lothian, particularly to lands and properties in Dunbar.

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The papers here concern legal and financial matters between Irving and the publishing house of Murray. The legal instruments concern the copyrights of works by Washington Irving while the financial instruments are mainly in relation to payments that Murray made to Irving.

Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, where required, by date under each name.Burney, Selina, 1813: folios 1-2;Burney, William, 1807-1822: folios 3-57:includes receipt signed by James Nunn: folio 11;invoice of Grayhurst and Harvey, goldsmiths and jewellers, to William Burney: folio 20;Burnie, Robert, 1891-1906: folios 58-60;Burnouf, Eugène, 1877-1879: folios 61-66:includes letters,...

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With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Drafts, fair copies and a few typescripts of poems, 1968-1969, undated (folio l). These were included in the posthumously published collection of John Kincaid's poems, ‘Windward of Ithaca; one man's love of Mull’ (Droitwich, 1986). (ii) 'The Flyting of Kincaid and Gold', 1969 (folio 36). Manuscripts, corrected typescripts and the final typescript of a poetic dispute written by Kincaid and Eric Gold. (iii) Drafts of poems by Kincaid, 1968-1969, undated...

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The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, chiefly with George Chalmers, and notes, on antiquarian topics, 1799- 1815, undated (folio 1); (ii) Papers, 1741-1803, undated, concerning the Ellice family, consisting of typed biographical accounts (some incomplete) and copies of portraits of members of the family (folio 75); (iii) A small quantity of unrelated papers, 1844-1921, undated, found loosely enclosed in other parts of the collection (folio 216).

Scope and Contents The papers consist of the following: (i) Family financial and legal papers, 1697-1732, of the Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale (folio 1); (ii) Draft, circa 1694, in the hand of the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale, endorsed: 'Draught of a paper for securing the jewel of the family' (folio 19); (iii) Legal and financial papers, 1699-1739, undated, including accounts, relating to the claim of Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale and the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale on the Dundonald estate (folio...

Scope and Contents The material was compiled over a number of years, probably between about 1825 and 1840, and consists of accounts of parishes and families, notes and extracts from printed sources and collections of formal documents, and some original documents and printed items. The complete title of the work was apparently intended to be `Dumbartonshire Illustrated with regard chiefly to its Territorial History and Family Antiquities`, but the work appears never to have been finished (for example, there are...

Scope and Contents Folio(s) 1-3 : two letters, 1815, of Jane Austen to John Murray II; 4-7 : two letters, 1819 and 1831, of Cassandra Elizabeth Austen to John Murray II concerning works by Jane Austen; 8 : bank draft, 1816, in favour of Jane Austen; and, 9-11 : three bank drafts in favour jointly of Henry Austen and Cassandra Elizabeth Austen. Each draft is for value received in "Northanger Abbey, etc.". f. 9 : 31 December 1818; f. 10 :...

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Letters and papers of randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway and his wife Countess Harriet Blanche, 1834-73, consisting mainly of political and family letters.

Including circa 90 letters, containing social and political news and comment.

With a draft of a parliamentary speech on the Colliery Bill, 1842.

Scope and Contents 1955.Papers concerning the criticisms made by Michael Balint, Siegmund Foulkes and John Sutherland.Balint, Michael.Letter, with enclosure, 1955, of Michael Balint to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The enclosure, forwarded for Fairbairn’s comments, is a carbon copy of Balint’s ‘Criticism of Fairbairn’s Generalisation about Object-Relations’. The criticism was published in the ‘British Journal for the Philosophy of Science’, 1957. Folios 1-5....