Scope and Contents From the Series: Throughout his career, particularly during the 1790s, John Rennie filled many notebooks with information about the works he himself was involved with, and about others which he visited out of professional curiosity. The books are mostly narrow octavos, interleaved with blotting paper. Rennie seems to have carried them with him on his frequent travels and to have filled them in in pencil, rewriting in ink, often on top of the pencil, at some more convenient moment. Ronnie received much of his...

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William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

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Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...

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(i) Eighteenth-century copy of 'Criminal forms', by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw, Lord justice Clerk.

(ii) Copy of the Report on the fees of the Court of Justiciary, 1733 (folio 79);

(iii) A table of justiciary fees, 1749 (folio 89).

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The contents are as follows. (i) Tables compiled by Captain Robert Scott, Secretary to the Marine Board, with copies of his letters to Henry Churchill, Marine Paymaster and Naval Storekeeper, concerning the prices charged in the Naval Storekeeper's bills for January to February, 1810 (folio 1); (ii) Copy of a memorandum, of Captain Robert Scott, addressed to the members of the Marine Board, 1813.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...

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The contents are as follows. (i) (i) Table, 'Present State of the Army on the Fort St George Establishment extracted from the last Returns received from Corps' 13 August 1809 (folio 1);

(ii) Plan Exhibiting the present partition of the country dependent on Fort St George into Military Divisions, with the several Stations of Troops, Agreeable to the General Distribution Returns of the Coast Army, for the month of September 1809' (folio 3).

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The contents are as follows. (i) 'Tableau des Observations Meteorologiques faites au Jardin Botanique de Genéve, January 1817-August 1821 (folio 1); (ii) Cuttings containing barometric tables from the 'Journal de Paris March-May 1818 (folio 57).

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...

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The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.

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At the back of the volume are newspaper cuttings, 1885, from the 'Lothian Courier' and 'Coatbridge Herald'.

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The committee was established by the 4th Earl of Minto to consider the desirability of a Council of Princes, of an Indian member on the Viceroy's Executive Council, of increased Indian representation on the Legislative Council and local governments, and of greater discussions of the budget.