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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 3004/500
TitleCorrespondence: personal, estate, financial and political
Date1787 - 1914
DescriptionLetter to Lord Saltoun from Lt. Campbell Hamilton concerning the sale of his commission to Lord Saltoun; share certificate, contract and letter from the canal superintendent to Simon Fraser, concerning his purchase of shares in the Forth and Clyde Navigation, and a letter from Henry Cook, solicitor, regarding their sale; letter from Sir George Ramsay to Lord Saltoun concerning his honeymoon; minute of a tenantry meeting welcoming a 10 per cent reduction in rents; memorandum by Lord Saltoun on the representative peerages of Scotland and Ireland, with a note of the replies of Scots peers not members of the House of Lords to the question, ‘would you wish to be eligible for election to the House of Commons?’. Letter from Henry Cook, W.S., concerning Lord Saltoun's election expenses at an election of representative peers; correspondence, Sir A. Anderson to Lord Saltoun, concerning Philorth disentail; memoranda in claim of John Fraser to title of Lord Lovat; letters from Lt. Hon. S. Fraser to Lord Saltoun from Flanders; letters of condolence on Hon. S. Fraser's death.
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