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Collection of pamphlets on the Earldom of Mar
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1973
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook entitled 'A Collection of pamphlets etc. on the Earldom of Mar' containing pamphlets, letters, reports, transcripts, and newspaper cuttings related to the controversy regarding the Earl of Mar title that took place during the years 1875-1885, opposing Walter Henry Erskine, Earl of Kellie, and John Francis Goodeve-Erskine, Earl of Mar. The texts collected in this scrapbook clearly defend the latter.The dispute spanned over 10 years, and was between Walter Henry Erskine, Earl of...
Dates:
1875-1885
Coltness Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-17
Scope and Contents
The collection of Coltness Papers contains letters, family documents, commonplace books, accounts, historical and bioraphical manuscripts, and certificates dating mainly from the 17th-19th centuries, and relating to the Steuart family. See the box list fore more details.
Dates:
1623-1994
Papers of Frederick Couper and family
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-372
Identifier: Coll-1870
Scope and Contents
Correspondence
Frederick Couper's testimonials
Notes and documents relating to genealogy and family history
Legal documents
Photographs of Frederick Couper
Bookkeeping notebook
A substantial archive of original manuscript correspondence, documents, photographs and printed material relating to the...
Dates:
1530-1935
Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1835
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, legal documents, inventories, student notes, sermons, and business accounts relating to the members of the Anderson, Urquhart, and Graham families (all related). The material covers the 18th and 19th centuries and relates to subjects as varied as ironmongery, sea travel, study of humanities in the 1820s, preaching and sermons, school teaching, etc. This collection provides an excellent insight into the daily life in Edinburgh in the late 1700s and in the 1800s.
Dates:
1761-1979
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- Edinburgh -- Scotland 1
- Genealogy 1
- Legal documents | Scotland | 1
- Leith (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
- Peerage claims 1
- Peers 1
- Scotland -- Wishaw 1
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- English 2
- English 1
- Multiple languages 1
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- Anderson (Edinburgh) 1
- Couper, Frederick, fl 1870s-1920s (Scottish marine engineer) 1
- Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1712-1780 (3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and 7th Baronet of Coltness | economist | husband of Lady Frances Steuart (1722-1789)) 1
- Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1744-1839 (4th baronet of Goodtrees and 8th baronet of Coltness | British Army Officer) 1
- Graham (Edinburgh) 1
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