Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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233
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Repository
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National Library of Scotland
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Reference
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GB233/Adv.MS.2.1.14
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Title
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Miscellaneous Letters and Documents
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Dates
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17th century-19th century
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Access Status
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open
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Description
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Letters including request for help regarding his estates from Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven in 1659; James, 2nd Earl of Airlie to Sir David Ogilvie of Inverquharity in 1672 on financial matters; to Alexander Mundell, the economist in 1798, 1806, 1811 on legal business; of Sir George Steuart MacKenzie to William Dundas in 1802 on the appointment of ministers to Gareloch and Applecross; of Robert Ogle to Joseph Hume, MP on the improper exercise of the office of Lord Advocate; of Sir Robert Dundas to John Robins, 1829-30 on Viscount Melville's debt; of Thomas Cadell to William Blackwood, 1830 on a Trade Dinner Sale; of the Earl of Minto, 1831 on the appointment to the chair of History at Edinburgh; of Alexander Blackwood to Samuel Warren, 1834 on the proposed republication of an article on the Local Courts Bill. Poems of Robert Hog and John Nevay. Letters to George Chalmers, the antiquary from Gilbert Buchanan, 1796 on Shakespeare; William Anderson, 1796 on literary and historical matters; John Craigie, 1806 on Sir David Lindsay; Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger, 1810 on Miss Campbell; and Harry Lumsden, 1812 on the Middleton Family. Notes of Chalmers and others on Zachary Boyd's poems and on Sir George Buc, on Nathaniel Bacon, on the Celtic topology of Scotland, on Sir Balthazar Gerbier and on the Corbet Family. Papers on various families of Stewart, collected with some notes by George Chalmers
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Level
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fonds
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