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The papers relate in particular to the difficulties of Patrick Kinninmond (d 1701), the last laird of that name.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers relate in particular to the difficulties of Patrick Kinninmond (d 1701), the last laird of that name.

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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The contents are as follows: Papers, 1701-1845, undated, of the Malcolm family of Burnfoot (Acc.9756);

Photocopy of transcripts of the complete diary, 1919-1937, of Elizabeth S Haldane (MS.20244).

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The papers include: prescriptions made by Sir Edmund King for the lst Marquess; theological notes in the hand of the 2nd Marquess; "Giornale dell' Antichità e rarità di Roma. 6 Febraro 1720"; poems, lists of books and of plants, etc. There are also some nineteenth-century notes concerning Lord Charles Hay.

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Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.

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Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.

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These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.

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The papers consist of: (i) Miscellaneous genealogical papers, 1899-1915, undated (folio 1); (ii) Pages prepared for the second edition of D P Menzies, ‘The red and white book of Menzies’ (privately printed, 1908) (folio 49); (iii) Miscellaneous family papers, 1730-1903, undated (folio 69).

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The miscellaneous Grey family papers, 1846-1890, undated, include accounts of the deaths of the Duchess of St Albans in 1871 and Caroline Eliza Grey in 1890 (folio 1);

The miscellaneous Farquhar family correspondence, 1834-1878, undated, includes correspondence of and concerning Trevor Graham Farquhar in the Punjab, 1844-1846 (folio 113).

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The letters and papers are of the late seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century, with the exception of three of the sixteenth. They relate very largely to money matters.

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Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

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Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...

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Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...

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Included are a pole, 1695, of the parish of Fowlis Easter; papers, 1703, concerning the purchase of Monzievaird; household inventories of 1763, 1800 and 1861 for Ochtertyre and of 1884 for Ravelston.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The firm of John Richardson and Company, of Perth, was already well established by 1760 with a wide business, chiefly in salmon, both locally and throughout Europe. The books consist of letter books and various account books, and show the whole process from the acquisition of the fish to its sale either raw at home or pickled as far afield as Italy and Spain. The salmon business was precarious, and to offset losses Richardson frequently entered into partnership with local merchants, notably...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers relate in particular to the difficulties of Patrick Kinninmond (d 1701), the last laird of that name.