| Description | Personal papers and correspondence:
Burgess ticket of Andrew Wilson, Banff, 1779
Will of Aylmer St Aubyn Wilson, Wilson's son, 23 June 1859
with covering letter from the India Office, 4 June 1860, and letter written to Aylmer by an unnamed correspondent, 17 September 1859
Wilson genealogical table, 'Progenitors of Andrew Wilson, Seatown, Banff', male and female lines from 17th to 19th centuries.
Medico-Chirurgical Society of Aberdeen: admission diploma of Robert Wilson, 5 December 1808 [damaged]
'Calumny and Intrigue', letters and papers relating to a society scandal involving Lady Aylmer, 1852
Note from Princess Pauline Borghese (1780 - 1825), sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, recording the gift of a ring, once belonging to Napoleon, to Robert Wilson, ''une preuve de mon estime particuliere'', Livorno, 19 June 1823.
Letter from Wilson to unnamed correspondent asking that his thanks be conveyed to the Marquis of Hastings for arranging his passage to Marseilles, dated Lazzaretto of Marseilles, 26 March 1825. In wrapper addressed to Wilson at Malta, with pencil note inside "Wm Wilberforce has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds" and other items of news
'A brief relation of circumstances connected with the mental derangement of Mr Kinnaird and the death of Lorenzo Galea', being an account of the murder of Wilson's servant Galea at the house of Mr Vitali in Athens, 1819. Also two typed transcripts of same.
Journal [or fictional essay] in Wilson's hand, relating in brief travels across North Africa and the Middle East, and in particular telling the story of a young girl, Marianne, slave at the court of the Aga Osman. Not dated. [1820s]
Literary paper, in unidentified hand, relating the tale of the phantom of Castle Borotin in Bohemia. Not dated [1810s - 20s]
Letter to Wilson from Isabella Grant, London, 7 December 1859, expressing her sympathy on the death of [Wilson's son Aylmer].
Letter to Wilson from unnamed correspondent, Calcutta 1861, responding to a request by Wison for further information on his son Aylmer's final illness.
Letter to Wilson from C.L. Cumming Bruce, Leghorn 2 June 1824, granting Wilson a liferent lease of his cottage at Dunphail, with fishing and shooting rights. |