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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,...

Dates: 1875-1885

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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...

Dates: 1530-1935

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Christison Family

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-1817

Content Description This fonds contains the papers of: Professor Alexander Christison FRSE (1751-1820), Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh from 1806 to his death in 1820, father of Sir Robert Christison. Sir Robert Christison, 1st Baronet, FRSE FRCSE FRCPE (1797-1882), toxicologist and physician, father of Sir Alexander Christison (1828-1918). John Christison (1789-1862),...

Dates: 1785-1904; 1979

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Cochrane Family

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-1837

Content Description Collection of six ornately decorated 18th-century manuscript documents relating to the Cochrane family of Scotland, including two marriage documents and four burgess tickets: Two documents relating to the marriage of William Cochrane and Agnes Carse, both dated 19 July 1706, Edinburgh: a marriage contract, listing over 400 points on which they pledged agreement, measuring 30 cm x 274 cm ; and a marriage...

Dates: 1706-1789

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Scott family

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-2076

Scope and Contents This fonds consists of the family papers of the Scott Family, whose lineage can be traced back to Walter Scott, who served as a Burgess of Edinburgh around 1521. The material comprises genealogical research notes, correspondence, historical charters (including one dated 1663, with a wax seal), official records (both originals and copies), photographs (including what appears to be daguerreotypes or ambrotypes), as well as a badge and a medal from the Argyll and Sutherland...

Dates: 1663-1993

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Collection of pamphlets on the Earldom of Mar

Coltness Papers

Papers of Frederick Couper and family

Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families

Papers of the Christison Family

Papers of the Cochrane Family

Papers of the Scott family

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