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: Papers, 1810-1811, concerning the case of Alexander Cahill, surgeon of the second battalion, 25th Regiment of Foot, indicted for murder after killing Captain Hugh Blair Rutherford, of the same regiment, in a duel (Adv.MS.9.1.5);Papers, 1820-1822, of Henry Cockburn concerning the action of oppression and damages of Lieutenent-General Walter Ker of Littledean against James, Duke of Roxburghe in the First Division of the Court of Session and Jury Court...

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The content are as follows: Papers, 1826, 1828, concerning the actions and counter-actions for damages raised by John Kingan, a merchant in Glasgow, and Robert Watson of Linthouse, a Glasgow banker, against each other, initially in the Second Division and later in the Jury Court (Adv.MS.9.1.3);

Papers, 1822-1823, concerning the case of William Henry Borthwick, printer and editor of the ‘Glasgow Sentinel’, indicted for theft (Adv.MS.9.1.4).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Legal, financial and other papers, [?1827-?1913], concerning James Augustus Grant (MS.17933);'Private Copy' of 'Memoranda' (no publisher, undated) by James Augustus Grant, [1880, or after] (MS.17940);Pedigrees of James Augustus Grant's family and others (Chisholm, Cuthbert, Fraser, Mackintosh, etc.) connected to it by marriage, written in an unidentified hand, with notes by Grant himself, ?19th century (MS.17941);...

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The contents are as follows: Papers, [?Circa 1783-?1821] (Acc.5111, numbers 33, 34);

Letter book, 1793-1794, of John Rennie (MS.19936);

Letter book, 1800, of John Rennie (MS.19937).

The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

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The contents are as follows: Letters, 1811-1847, of, but mostly to, Maria Edgeworth (Acc.6931, MSS.936, 23130-23131);

‘Pen and nib in leather case belonging to Sir Walter Scott, given by him to Maria Edgeworth.’ Also a portrait. 1823, 1825 (MS.23132);

‘Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems’, 1793-early 19th century (MSS.2720-2723).