Letter books

The correspondence suggests that this was an Edinburgh-based law practice, with the majority of letters emanating from city addresses.

There are 2 volumes with information on the spines showing: "Letter Book No. 3 - 18th May 1956 - 21st Aug. 1956"; and "Letter Book No. 5 - 9th Dec. 1956 - 31st Mar. 1957".

The volumes came from The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society Ltd., Hope Street, Glasgow. They hold reference numbers: No.5354 Date.1956 & 4525/57

Letters from James McLagan to Mrs Craigie of Glendoick.

79 letters, mainly written at Kinfauns and Aberdeen, where McLagan was Professor of Divinity at the Free Church College.

Letters are pasted into an album. The method of arrangement is unclear - certainly not chronological.

Letter book of the short-lived mining company Glenbuck Ironworks, which was active from 1795 to 1813 in the village of Glenbuck, in East Ayrshire. Glenbuck Ironworks was a subsidiary of an English company, Glenbuck Iron Company.

Letterbook of Sir John Macdonald Kinneir, containing transcriptions of letters dating from 1829-1830. Two Dutch maps of area pertaining to the Middle East are enclosed in the volume.

Letter book of correspondence from McCrie to Rev. Charles Watson, minister of Burntisland. 39 letters, dated 1819 and 1831-34.

Also bound in:

Account of the controversy respecting the Marrow of Modern Divinity, 1831-1832. 110 pages.

Address on Sabbath observance. December 1832. 16 pages.

Front board bears bookplate commemorating presentation to New College Library by the Family of Rev. Robert Boog Watson.