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Reference | Title | Date |
GD113 | Papers of the Innes family of Stow, Peeblesshire | 1566-1832 |
GD113/5 | Family and Miscellaneous Letters and Papers | 1713-1839 |
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Country code |
GB |
Repository code |
234 |
Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
Reference |
GD113/5/474 |
Title |
Correspondence of Gilbert Innes of Stow, mainly business and on estates of Drum and Stow. |
Dates |
May-Aug 1819 |
Access status |
Open |
Location |
On site |
Description |
Including:
1. 4 Aug 1819, Brighton: William Grant of Congalton. Queries the account; regrets death of the Chief Baron and asks recipient to subscribe 20 guineas to his statue.
2. 25 Aug 1819: Printed circular of the Caledonian Horticultural Society giving a list of classes for which premiums will be awarded, including 'the best Scots pint of retarded gooseberries'.
4. 28 Aug 1819, Stow: George Lees. Gives what he knows of the history of a dubious bank note; sends a guinea.
6. 25 Aug 1819, [Edinburgh]: [Mary Hutton] M P. Her heart feels as if it would burst; cannot find lodgings though she has gone about all day; does not know what to do; feels the same kind of horror as she did the previous year when Miss McIntosh turned her out; she wishes to see him; he has nothing to fear; she cannot be angry with him.
7. 28 Aug 1819, [Edinburgh]: [Mary Hutton] M P. Why has he not written? She has passed a dreadful week as there is a bad report current against her and no house will take her in; the consequence will be fatal; Dunblane her only resource until Mrs Jeffrey returns from London; has promised to go to the theatre that evening 'for the sole purpose of being seen'.
9. 28 Aug 1819, 49 Princes St, Edinburgh: Charles and John Peacock. They send a few samples of rhubarb and ask recipient to make a trial of them; they have been cutting the rhubarb since 1 Jun and it will be fit for use for another six weeks; as they intend to bring it forward at the Caledonian Horticultural meeting on 2 Sep, writers are anxious that recipient should ascertain its quality.
13. [21 Aug 1819, Edinburgh], Saturday: Rev Richard Shannon. Hopes for permission from the directors of the Assembly Rooms to have two of the festival bills pasted upon the front of the building; there appears to be no place in the new town where they can be put unless recipient agrees to this; the bills would be washed away immediately after the performance.
26. 3 Aug 1819, Barnstaple: Christiana Atcherley. Is a stranger, her daughter is dead; writer is the daughter of Mr Shairp, secretary to the Royal Bank and a friend of recipient's father; after her father died insolvent, she was sent by her family to a boarding school in Durham; while in Blackheath she became acquainted with Capt Atcherley of the Marines, and married him, unaware that he was deeply in debt; his habits expensive, fond of cards, dogs and horses, which led to his being thrown into the Kings Bench; further details of his unsatisfactory lifestyle; writer was left a small house and rather more than 3 acres of land near Edinburgh called Gardners Hall; her difficulties in educating her two children on less than £80 a year; fears Barnstaple is too low to be healthy; her remaining child, a son, is 10 and must be educated; the property will have to be sold and this may be done with advantage due to its position close to the new canal; asks recipient to assist in this project.
30. 3 Aug 1819, Fountain Hall: John Lumsden. Difficulties in supplying slates for Thornilee; containing estimate for the buildings there. 2 pieces.
34. 30 Jul 1819, Dunblane: [Mary Hutton] M P. Pleasure at receiving his letter too great for her to describe; when he is kind she is capable of any exertion; is sorry that he has been ill and hopes [how optimistically] that he has turned a [new] leaf and lives the way he should do, that is moderately and to be in his room by 11 at night; 'to do nothing but fart and pray is not my doctrine ... The most ardent wish of my heart has long been that you might feel that mysterious but well grounded support which cheers so many through life and is our all at death'; Lady Louisa Erskine has lent her Madame de Genlis 'Les Meres Morales' and writer is quite wild that he is not there to enjoy it with her; quotes a couple of lines and asks for a translation; scarlet fever is at Dunblane and nurses cannot be got for the sick; weather uncommonly warm.
40. 23 and 26 Jul 1819, Dunblane: [Mary Hutton] M P. She rises at 6 and sets off for the wells every morning; she generally drinks three small tumblers of the water and is back for breakfast at 9; there is plenty of fruit and a fine garden to walk in. She is to be in Edinburgh in a week and asks for money; her silk stockings have worn out and she is sometimes obliged to stay in the house when she would like to go out; urges him to disguise his hand when he writes to her.
41. 21 Jul 1819, London: William Grant of Congalton. Trouble about intended sale of Rockville and Congalton; desirable to get rid of the former as it is too expensive for his son who seems inclined to keep the latter; writer is going to Cheltenham via Brighton.
42. 24 Jul 1819, Highland Society Chambers, Edinburgh: Lewis Gordon, secretary. An invitation to recipient as one of the judges in the competition, to a rehearsal of bagpipe music and dancing, at McEwan's Rooms, Royal Exchange, on 26 Jul, to prepare for the public exhibition to take place in the theatre on Wednesday.
43. 23 Jul 1819, Edinburgh: Charles Cameron. Solicits interest for a new and rather singularly constructed balloon; writer sent a similar one off at Glasgow on 11 Mar and feels that a second display would enhance the musical festival; the balloon is at present in the building centre of the Mound; 'the building is far from being inviting, but as no Hall of sufficient height to show her [ie the balloon] to advantage could be found in the city, I was necessitate to make use of it'.
46. 24 Jul 1819, Trinity Cottage near Newhaven: George D Mitchell. Invitation to funeral of Margaret Stevenson, his grandmother, 26 Jul, to North Leith churchyard.
47-48. 23 Mar and 19 Jun 1819, Rome: Thomas Campbell, sculptor. 47. Has just arrived in Rome; enthuses over Canova, who surpasses the Greek sculpture 'in a fleshy appearance'; intends to visit his studio often; Torwaldsen also friendly; he is 'making a very beautiful group of the graces I suppose in opposition to Canova, he works with amazing facility'; writer has been to the Vatican; has taken an apartment in an old convent; marble is cheap; hopes his busts will arrive soon from London; sculpture an expensive profession and not as profitable as painting; has heard that the Hon Frances Mackenzie is to marry Torwaldsen, 'this is very strange [she didn't in the end] he is an old man with gray hair and as ugly as sin'. 48. Still expects the busts; has nearly finished his little figure of Love; his acquaintance is leaving as malaria is expected soon; is haunted by poverty and needs a remittance; Sir Thomas Lawrence at Rome painting a portrait of the Pope and Prime Minister; he has brought several portraits painted at Aix la Chapelle including one of the Emperor of Austria; the Romans and French think Lawrence inspired; writer's thoughts on ancient Rome; his situation influences his writing; either he loses the sense or spells it in Italian or French; suggests sending a marble statue perhaps of a sleeping nymph that could go into a drawingroom.
49. 16 Jul 1819, Fountain Hall: John Lumsden. Sends model of the bridge and a plan of officehouses and proposed alterations at Thornilee [both wanting]; Mr Mercer anxious to begin the alterations.
54. [-] Jul 1819, Richmond Barracks [Dublin]: Euphemia Menzies. Recommends bearer, McTavish, pipe major to the regiment, who is competing for the first or second Highland Society prizes.
56. 16 Jul 1819, Dunblane: Mary Hutton (M P). Laments that he does not write; 'is breach of promise such a light matter as not to influence a gentleman'; dreadful state of Glasgow; has read nothing but [Elizabeth, or] The Exiles of Siberia and is occupied in sewing muslin; her temper restored by a kind letter from her darling Mary; wishes she would write more often; wishes to know why wife of Sir James Erskine of Torrie has left him..
57. [5 Jul 1819, Edinburgh], Sunday: R C [identified in endorsements to other letters as 'Ronald Crawford' but definitely female]. Need for secrecy with regard to his gift; placed as she is and the rank he holds in society are against their public intimacy; 'I seen you on Friday last at 4 o'clock paying two Ladys great attention that were going into a carriage I wonder you did not accompany them you that is so fond of the Ladys'.
59. 20 Jul 1819, Peter Free. Has written to Messrs Torlonia for Thomas Campbell [the sculptor], who has a credit with them for £200; 'you are indeed his Mecenas. You talk about Scotch pride & Poverty. As far as I have seen the warmest hearts & longest purses have been Scotchmen'; the funds are up.
65. [14 Jul 1819], Wednesday morning, 21 Heriot Row: Rev Andrew Thomson. Invites recipient to hear a man from York who is a candidate for the desk of St George's church, vacant by resignation of Gale.
68. 15 Jul 1819, Fountain Hall: Andrew Hislop. Sends model of the iron bridge for which the Highland Society awarded him a premium at its Jan meeting; it would have been sent sooner but it took a great deal of work.
72. 9 Jul 1819, North Berwick: Capt William Grant. Possible sale of Congalton; thinks £45,000 too little; would hold out for £46,000 or £47,000 from Mr Cook's client; otherwise Rockville should be readvertised.
80. 30 Jun 1819, Edinburgh: Alexander Deuchar. Encloses key of the box and offers assistance, if required, in arranging the minerals.
83. 26 May 1819, New York: Abraham Bunbury. Written on circular, Montreal, 10 May 1819, intimating that he has entered into partnership with James Otway Wilson, as commission merchants at Montreal and Quebec.
93. [- Jun 1819, Fountain Hall]: John Lumsden. Further details of the model of the iron bridge to be made by Mr Hislop.
101. 8 Jun 1819, Canongate, Edinburgh: J Carfrae, coach builder. Large repairs required by recipient's coach; thinks it would be better to buy a new one and gives details of one available at a cost of 230 guineas; would take the old one as part trade in.
105. 6 Jun 1819, Edinburgh: Dr Brown. Solicits interest for Widow Asluta, 10 Ponton St, whose son, George, a musician, perished in the snow near Currie.
106. 5 Jun 1819, Burdie House: Robert Harper [Mortonhall's old servant]. Thanks for financial assistance. With list of contributions from others. 2 pieces.
107. 4 Jun 1819, Edinburgh: Printed circular soliciting additional subscriptions towards monument to memory of Robert Burns on the south side of the Calton Hill. Signed by George Thomson, treasurer, with note pointing out that recipient is on the committee and that it looks odd to have his name in the one list and not in the other.
118. [29 May 1819], Saturday morning, Princes St: Patrick Fraser Tytler. Has heard from Thomas Campbell, sculptor, from Rome, saying that he has not heard from recipient for six months.
147. 30 Apr 1819, Pinkie House: Sir John Hope. The Chinese figs are ready to be sent; one is of a different breed and older than the rest.
149. 5 May 1819, Edinburgh: Jane Innes to Gilbert Innes, her brother. Interest for Miss Christy Campbell who wishes leave for her servants to lay down her linens when washed in that piece of ground which runs between the Mews Lane and Queen St.
152. 10 May 1819, 141 Kirkgate, Leith: James Robertson. Paintings have arrived and are for sale; ascribes them to Poussin, Titian, etc. |
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164 pieces |
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