| Description | Correspondence addressed to Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore.
Correspondents include: Mr Barclay of Ury; Dr Bannerman; T. Belsches of Fettercairn; General Bland; Alexander Brodie; Lord Buchan; Sheriff Alexander Burnett; William Burnett; James Cumyng; Lord Dalhousie; James Davidson; James Duff; Henry Dundas; General Elphinstone; Lord Findlater; Sir William Forbes; the Duke of Gordon; the Duchess of Gordon; Lord Adam Gordon M.P.; Charles Gordon; General Hay; Patrick Henderson, clerk to the Aberdeenshire Coal Company; August Kellock; Andrew Mackay of Newtonhill; David Martin; J. Menzies; Alexander Murray; David Ogilvie of Barras; William, Ogilvie, Professor of Humanity at King's College Aberdeen; William Ritchie; Lord Selkirk; John Sinclair; John Smith; Lord Sydney; Andrew Thomson; Robert Walker; and Lord Weymouth
There are also several unsigned letters.
The letters concern such matters as civil, military, and ecclesiastical patronage; academic patronage; influence at parliamentary elections, particularly as regards Lords Findlater, Gordon, and Kintore; especially at the Mearns by-election of 1797; comments on and rumour about current politics; the election of Scottish representative peers; the wars with France (chiefly rumour); the militia raised in Kincardineshire for defence against invasion; estate and agricultural matters; the Aberdeenshire canal; the bridge over the Urie; antiquities of Scotland; charity to the poor during the bad harvest of 1782; and family and personal matters.
Including letters:
1. from Lord Findlater, suggesting that the Earl and he should jointly seek to overthrow the influence at parliamentary elections of the Duke of Gordon 1790
2. from Lord Buchan, requesting donations for a society for the succour of poor literary men 1781
3. from Alexander Burnett of Kemnay, concerning the importation of Dutch seed grain, potatoes and turnips 1782
4. from Miss Ann Keith, soliciting the Earl's vote for Lord Balcarres at the election of Scottish representative peers 1783
5. from August Kellock, concerning riots by Glasgow weavers
6. from William Ritchie at Utrecht, concerning the political situation in Holland 1790
7, 8. two letters from Sheriff Burnett of Kincardineshire, concerning the suppression of disorder 1795 and 1796
9. from Alexander Brodie in London, concerning patronage of the office of Knight Marischal 1796
10. from Robert Barclay, concerning the captain of the "Active", which had been captured by privateers off Philadelphia 1797
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