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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The papers consist of a genealogical table, and draft statements and opinion by John Riddell, 1843, and undated (folios 1-160), extracts made apparently in 1846 of 16th- and 17th-century public records relating to members of the family (folios 161-179), and a small miscellany of other papers (folios 180-190).

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Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...

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Family trees have been pasted into the album.

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This is the first version of the table.

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This is the second version of this table.

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This is a later version of this table.

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Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

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There are four versions of the pedigree in different hands (folios 5, 10, 12, 20) and notes on the genealogy and heraldry of the Kers.

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The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

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At the end of the volume, inverted, are the family trees of various Scottish noble families.

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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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Contains a number of small errors, showing the ancestry (but not the descendants) of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (d 1863) and his brothers and sisters.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...

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A family tree has been inserted at the beginning of MS. 1675.

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Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.