Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1787-1802, including accounts, of the trustees of the 6th Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 1);(ii) Family papers, being copies of the marriage contract, 1785, between the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale; a printed ‘Information', 1788, for Frances, daughter of Major William and Lady Catherine Hay, against Robert Hay of Drumelzier; and an inventory, 1789, of the jewels belonging to Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale (folio...

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The Douglas Cause was the case in which the tutors of James George, 7th Duke of Hamilton, contested the claim of Archibald James Edward Douglas to the Douglas estates.

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The contents are as follows:

(i) Deed of sale, 1831, of an enslaved African woman and child, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (folio 1);

(ii) Printed advertisement, 1852, of the sale of a slave labour plantation and enslaved Africans at New Orleans (folio 2);

(iii) Letter, 1867, of Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mr Ticknor, regarding articles written by her (folio 3);

(iv) Photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe (folio 4).

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The contents are as follows:

(i) Letter book of Lord Milton, 1720-1721 (folio 1);

(ii) Pages 47-112 (wanting 79-80, 89-90, 105-106) of an octavo edition of Johannes F Böckelmann, 'Compendium Institutionum Caes. Iustiniani', covering lib. I, tit. XVIII to lib. II, tit. XVIII, interleaved, with annotations by Lord Milton (folio 20);

(iii) Legal notes by Lord Milton, apparently for his legal dictionary (MSS.17815-17819) (folio 1 inverted).