| Administrative History | Buchan, Peter (1790–1854), folk-song collector, historian, and publisher |
| Description | Letters to Williamina Stewart (later Mrs Forbes Leith) from various correspondents including James Stewart, William Stewart, Robert Brown, Margaret Ferguson, Mary Urquhart of Craigston, William Kerr, William Keith.
Together with other papers including:
Extracts of letters from Lieut.-Col. James Stewart, 42nd Regiment, dated Rosetta 16th July 1801 and camp before Alexandria 2 - 21 September 1801, giving details of the Egyptian campaign, with letter from Stewart (Mrs Forbes-Leith's father)
Copies of verses including "On the Wreck of the Comet" and "On the death of the Princess Charlotte" [possibly by or copied by Mary Urquhart]
Marriage certificate of James Stewart and Williamina Kerr, Edinburgh 18 December 1802
Also letter from Edward Khull of the Glasgow University Press, 27 December 1843, replying to a letter from Buchan (copy attached) in which Buchan undertakes to produce a Dictionary of the Scottish Language, together with a list of books sent to Peter Buchan by Khull and a collection of manuscript pages with entries for the proposed dictionary |