Scope and Contents Various legal documents, including:In folder and bundle 1: Papers relating to the affairs between Walter Scott Esq. (father of the novelist) and James Ferguson, 1801-1811 In bundle 2: Accounts of James Ferguson to the Bank of Scotland for services in connection with...

Scope and Contents This subfonds contains: Two letters from John Borthwick to his future wife Peggy Greig, 1761-1762 Note from John Booker, Cronstadt regarding Captain Robert Borthwick's death at Archangel, 1829 Letter from John and Peggy's son Robert Borthwick to Robert Anderson, his cousin, 1825 Two envelopes with seals in good condition, nd ...

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Letters and publications relating Signor Ferretti's Protestant educational activities in London and Florence.

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Correspondence in Chinese and in English, and coloured sketch of the Porcelain Tower in Nanking. There is little information on the origin and context of the documents. One of the letters has the following annotation: 'Letter to Rt from Dong - a chinese baptised ... from Ninqho who visited Edinburgh along with Dr McGowan in Oct Nov and Dec 1859 signed (Dong Patzai) translated by Dr McGowan'.

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Three volumes of notes on Dr. Joseph Black's lectures on chemistry. The full title is: 'Notes of Dr. Black's Philosophical Lectures on Chemistry, Corrected and enlarged by the joint labor of George Buchan Hepburn and Alexander Law, advocates'. Manuscript, in a neat and legible hand, of notes of Black's course of 57 lectures on chemistry delivered from 13th June to 22nd December 1775.