Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).

Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts, April-July 1812, of Lieutenant Collet Barker, 39th Foot, and Lieutenant Benjamin Hobhouse, 57th Foot, employed on special service (folio 1);

(ii) Ration vouchers, 1812-1813 (folio 29);

(iii) Receipts, 1812, for horse-shoes and nails (folio 174);

(iv) Campaign maps, circa 1812-1813 (folio 198);

(v) Miscellaneous military papers, circa 1811-1813 (folio 214).

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...