| Description | Letters to Lord Fife in London. Subject matter and correspondents include:
Business: Andrew Hay, Keith Urquhart, George Robinson, John Durno;
Estate: Stewart Souter, William Rose, James Stuart, Alexander Stronach, James George jnr.; Family: Anne Duff, James Duff, Alexander Duff, M. Udny Duff;
Local: James Bartlet, James Fyfe, Alex Duff, J. Ferguson, George Forbes, R. Harland;
Money: James N. Innes, Subscription to Building of New College, Edinburgh (MS 3175/30/3);
Personal: M. Harcourt, Camelford, Barclay, King's Scholars, Henry Mackenzie, Colquhoun, Grimston, Miss Hay, William Abercromby, Highland Society: Charles Cordiner, Lady Abercromby, A. Leith, James Milne, Kellie, John Hamott, [ ] Gordon;
Place: Alexander Hendrie, Mrs. Piozzi, E. Colvill, George Forbes, Archibald Milne;
Place-Military: William Paterson (Algiers), William Gauld, Colonel W. Robertson, William Duncan, C. Morison;
Politics: G. C. Anderson, Margaret Macdonald.
[Also includes plan of room with painted colour strips of paper attached with ornate design, possibly examples of decoration for room; 'List of Governors of Christ's Hospital' (printed); 'Prospectus of A New Evening News-paper, under the title of the Edinburgh Herald' (printed, February 1790); printed political pamphlet in the name of Thomas Reader, 14 January 1790, expounding views on the Test Acts, Protestant dissenters, and other subjects; Notice re. proposed new canal from the 'Town of Birmingham to the River Severn at or near the City of Worcester', 1790; Advertisement: 'Philo-Theodosius; or a new edition of Theodosius, with a New Character of Mr. Burke'.] |