Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

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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 From the Fonds: The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Copies of certificates of proficiency and related material, 1813, (folio 1);(ii) Printed examination class lists, 1808-1813 (folio 23);(iii) Returns of the absence of students, 1811-1813 (folio 30);(iv) Lists of students who left the College, 1810-1813 (folio 38);(v) Declarations of debt given by students, 1813 (folio 47);(vi) Drafts in the 1st Earl of Minto's hand, of his farewell address...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Almost all of MS.23569 is blank: MS.23570 consists of a single gathering, the leaves having been taken out. MS.23571 consists of papers found loosely enclosed in MSS.23569-23570.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Minutes, letters and papers, with miscellaneous printed political leaflets and ephemera retained with the collection, from the Edinburgh Headquarters of the Scottish National Party. Included are records of other organizations of the national movement.

Scope and Contents The papers include a petition of Christian Strachan, accused of parricide, for appointment of counsel, with signature of James Erskine, Lord Grange, 1712 (folio 4); warrants for committing to, continuing in, or liberating from, the Tolbooth, 1662-1673 (folio 5), 1736 (folio 10), 1794 (folio 13); the imprisonment of seven soldiers of the City Guard for firing on the mob at the execution of Andrew Wilson, 1736 (folio 10); names of eleven persons who escaped from the Tolbooth as a result of the...

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Includes photocopies, extensive notes on Borrow by Sir Angus Fraser and an annotated copy of 'George Borrow: a Bibliographical Guide' (1984).

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...

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The manuscript gives the names of voters, the name of the person to whom the vote belongs, the description of the freehold estate, the valued and old extent of the estate, and the volume and folio of the record in Chancery where the old extent is registered.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

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Notes of clothes given out in November 1867 are entered at folio 97 verso.

A few leaves have been cut out before folio 1 and most of the leaves following folio 65 are blank.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

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Receipt of books borrowed. With printed forms of receipt. Receipts are crossed out. Receipts read: 'I_____ Advocate, grant me to have borrowed out of the Advocates Library ______ which I oblige me to restore betwixt and the ______ Day of _____ next to come, or the Sum of _____ in Case'.