Scope and Contents The correspondence includes a letter written by Annas Campbell, a child, to her grandfather, 1604 (folio 1); letters of the 2nd Earl, afterwards Duke, of Lauderdale to the 9th Earl of Argyll, describing minutely a cabinet with secret drawers, 1671 (folio 28); an order of the Privy Council to Argyll to find 'Lowland caution' in respect of his commission for the Highlands, 1680 (folio 31); an anonymous and unaddressed letter from London, giving news of home and foreign politics, and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...

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Whilst at St Helena, Alexander Walker busied himself in promoting the agricultural potential of the island and in tackling the question of slavery.

Scope and Contents Contains:39. Copy assedation Alexander, Bishop of Brechin, in favour of James Guthrie burgess of Edinburgh and Christiane Barron his spouse of the teinds of the lands of Bannabrioth and half of the mill-lands thereof in liferent and for three heirs lives and 90 years thereafter. Edinburgh, 27 January 1577.40. Contract at Edinburgh 16 September 1575 between Mr Gilbert Skene, doctor of medicine on one part and John Melros, writer burgess of Edinburgh on the other part...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Inventories, 1659-1694, undated, of household and legal papers (folio 1);(ii) Legal papers, 1662, concerning the claims of the 4th Viscount Stormont against the creditors of James Murray, 2nd Earl of Annandale (folio 28);(iii) Order, 19 June 1667, for a seat in Lady Yester Kirk for the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 48);(iv) Note of pictures bought in 1691 (folio 49);(v) Inventories, 1691-1697, of...

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The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

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The volume contains the orders of:

Sir Brent Spencer, 1807-1808 (folio 1);

Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1808 (folio 5);

Sir Harry Burrard, 1808 (folio 15);

Sir John Moore, 1808-1809 (folio 17);

Sir David Baird, 1808 (folio 25);

and returns of troops under Sir John F Cradock, 1808 (folio 41).

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The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

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The volume contains copies of orders and letters to generals under his command, and of reports to Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, and to the minister of war, Henri J G Clarke, Duke of Feltre.

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The volume contains copies of Soult’s letters (folios 1-44) and orders (folios 73-117), and a translation of a letter of Admiral Sir George Berkeley (folio 45); folios 46-71 and 118-121 are blank. Loosely enclosed at the back of the volume are a blank printed form designed for listing returns of troops (folio 122) and an unused sheet of Soult`s notepaper (folio 134); a lodging note is pasted inside the back cover (folio 136).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

Scope and Contents All the documents concern legal actions, and most contain the Regent`s instructions in each case. Unless otherwise stated, the papers are addressed to David Borthwick by the Regent.Writ to the Lord Advocates, David Borthwick and Robert Crichton of Elliock, to call a summons of error at the instance of Mungo Johnston of Locharby, against Laurence Simpson and others, Dalkeith, 24 March 1573/1574 (folio 1).Instructions to the Lord Advocates to summons certain unnamed...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Discharge of Andro Hart, printer, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 1592 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of Robert Brysone, printer and bookseller, and Evan Tyler, printer, to Mr George Halyburton for liturgies delivered to the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1637 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of the Earl of Mar to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate of Scotland, demanding an immediate report on the presence of a French ship near Inverkeithing, 1714...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, orders for paper, minutes of meetings, lists of subscriptions, etc., 1834-1843, 1857 (folio 1);(ii) Copies of letters, 1714-1726, of the Earls of Mar and Inverness to Alexander Robertson of Strowan, preceded by a short account of Strowan, undated (folio 44);(iii) Printed minutes of meetings, 1840-1842, 1844, and rules of the Club, 1842 (folio 81);(iv) Specimen cheque and receipts taken from the Club's...

Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Cushman, Herbert Ernest.Letters, 1893, of Herbert Ernest Cushman to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 1-6.Cust, Edward.Letters, 1861-1869, 1872-1873 and 1875, of Sir Edward Cust to John Murray III. Folios 7-105c.Folio 21. Orders, 1861, from Horse Guards regarding the contents of an upcoming examination for officers....

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The letters are chiefly orders from merchants and army contractors.

Scope and Contents Bound with printed copies of the Spanish treaties of 1604 and 1630 (London, 1605, 1630). Included are copies of the correspondence and orders of Don John of Austria, as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, relating to English (Royalist) shipping, etc., 1656-1659, undated, (passim), and of secret articles in treaties, 1604, 1656 (pages 94, 57-63) in English, Spanish and French. According to a pencilled note in a modern hand, the notes are of one of the Earls of Bristol, but some at least...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Instructions to officers in the quartermaster-general’s department, with specimens of forms and returns, compiled by George Murray apparently in 1811 (Adv.MS.46.5.2);Copies of letters and orders, October 1808-November 1809 (Adv.MS.46.5.3);Copies of letters and orders, September 1808-February 1810 (Adv.MS.46.5.4);Copies of letters and orders, February 1810-May 1914 (Adv.MS.46.5.5);‘Registre de la campagne d’Espagne’,...

Scope and Contents `Registre de la campagne d`Espagne` of General Étienne Heudelet de Bierre, 5 separate gatherings of leaves, 1808-1809 (Adv.MS.46.5.21);Letter and order book of Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, as general commanding the second corps of the army in Spain, 13 March-11 May 1809. (Adv.MS.46.5.22);Letter and order book of Count Honoré T M Gazan de La Peyrière, 27 May-24 July 1813, as acting commander-in-chief of the Army in Spain pending the appointment of...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of Lord Justice Clerk Bellenden to James VI, relating his interview with Queen Elizabeth, London, 1 March, 1584/1585. See 'Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, 1584-1585', pages 560, 564, 565. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter of Francis Stewart, titular Earl of Bothwell, to Colonel William Urie, relating to an attack upon a sentinel, Dumfries, 1670. (Folio 3.)(iii) ‘Mr. Gidean Guthry his aco.ͭͭ of letters’,...

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The notebook contains copies of correspondence, orders, etc., a report of the Regiment's movements in the 1798 rebellion, and, inter alia, a treatise, 1801, on the etymology of military words (folio 68 verso), two stories (folios 103 verso, 136 verso), and notes on military theory.