Manuscript Collection [part 1: MSS 1-66]

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• MS 1 William Pringle Laird
• MS 2 Patrick Wright Anderson
• MS 3 S.F Price Collection
• MS 4 Prints from the Dioptric Review
• MS 5 Dundee Town Council
• MS 6 Cox Brothers Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee; Cox Family Papers
• MS 7 John Berry of Tayfield: Hydro Board Files
• MS 8 Northeastern District Cooperative Conference Association.
• MS 9 Glasite Church
• MS 10 Boase & Co. Ltd, [previously Turnbull & Co.], Claverhouse Bleachfield.
• MS 11 Baxter Brothers, Linen and Jute Manufacturers, Dundee.
• MS 12 J. Salomon & Co., Jute Merchants, Dundee.
• MS 13 Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900-1980). Moved to UR-SF 51.
• MS 14 Dundee Institute of Architects
• MS 15 Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee
• MS 16 Pathology Drawings
• MS 17 Thornton Collection (Thomas Thornton, Son & Co., Solicitors, Dundee)
  includes:
  • MS 17/1 Newport Railway Co.
  • MS 17/2 North British Railway Co.
  • MS 17/3 Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway; Kirkcaldy District Railways.
  • MS 17/4 Grange Estate, Monifieth; Kerr and Anderson Families.
  • MS 17/5 Morphie Estate, Kincardineshire; Grahame Family.
  • MS 17/6 Thornton Castle, Laurencekirk
  • MS 17/7 Miscellaneous Title Deeds
  • MS 17/8 Bannatyne Home of Rest, Newtyle
  • MS 17/9 James Dalyell (1798-1870), Naval Officer, H.M.Coastguard, Buckie and Carnoustie.
  • MS 17/10 John James Dalyell (c.1835-c.1897), Insurance Commission Agent
  • MS 17/11 Miscellaneous Papers (in Thornton Collection)
  • MS 17/12 Miscellaneous Legal Papers (in Thornton Collection)
  • MS 17/13 Miscellaneous loose papers originally with maps and plans in MS 17P
  • MS 17/14 Unidentified ledger of household accounts
  • MS 17P Thornton Collection Maps and Plans
• MS 18 Andrew Gilchrist.
• MS 19 George Duncan Paterson, F.S.A. (Scot.)
• MS 20 Dundee Harbour Commissioners.
• MS 21 Abertay Historical Society.
• MS 22 Alexander Hutcheson.
• MS 23 William Ferguson & Sons, Jute Manufacturers, Dundee.
• MS 24 Low & Bonar Ltd, Jute Spinners, Manufacturers and Merchants, Dundee
• MS 25 Thomas Campbell, (1777-1844) Scottish Poet.
• MS 26 Methodist Church, Arbroath and Montrose
• MS 27 Corstorphine Taylor Collection
• MS 28 Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Co. Ltd, Dundee.
• MS 29 Ruggles Bequest
• MS 30 Taybridge Collection
• MS 31 Dr. Ruth Young, C.B.E. (1884-1983)
• MS 32 James Banks & Sons, Rope and Twine Merchants, Perth.
• MS 33 Number not allocated
• MS 34 Kennedy Family Miscellany
• MS 35 Arbroath Horse Hiring Co. Ltd
• MS 36 Number not allocated
• MS 37 Francis Frith Collection: Photographs of Highland Perthshire.
• MS 38 Herbert Watt Torrance, Medical Missionary (1892-1977)
• MS 39 William Fraser Mitchell (1900- )
• MS 40 Number not allocated
• MS 41 David Small & Sons, Seedsmen, Brechin
• MS 42 Giddings & Lewis-Fraser Ltd, Engineers Arbroath, incorporating Douglas Fraser & Sons Ltd, Linen and Jute Manufacturers
• MS 43 Alexander Shanks, Engineers, Arbroath.
• MS 44 James Allison & Sons (Sailmakers) Ltd, Rope, Sail and Tentmakers, Ship Chandlers and Ship Owners, Dundee.
• MS 45 Lewis C. Grant, Engineers, Dysart, incorporating Douglas & Grant
• MS 46 Marshall & Edgar, Lilybank Foundry, Dundee
• MS 47 W.G. Grant & Co.Ltd, Linen Manufacturers, Panmure Works, Carnoustie
• MS 48 Melville Jameson, Solicitor, Perth
• MS 49 Hugh Stannus Stannus (1877-1957), Specialist in Tropical Medicine
• MS 50 Sir Robert Robertson (1869-1948) Government Chemist and Explosives Expert
• MS 51 Charles Tennant
• MS 52 West Highland Salmon Fisheries Co. Ltd, Portree - moved to West Highland Council Archive
• MS 53 William C. Scott, Wool Merchants and Skinners, Dundee
• MS 54 College and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit, Isle of Cumbrae
• MS 55 Dr Alexander Scott, F.R.S. (1853-1947)
• MS 56 Henry Boase (1892-1974)
• MS 57 Ogilvie, Cowan & Co., Solicitors, Dundee:
  • MS 57/1 Duntrune Estate, Dundee (Families of Stirling, Graham, Stirling-Graham, Lacon)
  • MS 57/2 Gourlay Bros & Co. (Dundee) Ltd; Engineers and Shipbuilders
  • MS 57/3 Dorothy Whale Fishing Co. and Friendship Whale Fishing Co.
  • MS 57/4 J.& J. Ogilvie, Solicitors, Dundee.
  • MS 57/P Maps and Plans (in Ogilvie, Cowan & Co. Collection)
• MS 58 Robert Leighton (1822-1869), Scottish Poet
• MS 59 Tay Whale Fishing Company, Dundee
• MS 60 Caird (Dundee) Ltd, Jute Manufacturers, Dundee incorporating James Prain & Sons Ltd
• MS 61 British Medical Association, Dundee Branch
• MS 62 Dundee Clinical Club
• MS 63 Dundee Medical Society
• MS 64 Forfarshire Medical Society
• Number not allocated
• MS 66 Sidlaw Industries, Meadow Place Buildings, Dundee
  • MS 66/I Thomas Bell & Sons (of Dundee) Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee.
  • MS 66/II Cox Brothers Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee
  • MS 66/III Gilroy Sons & Co., Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee
  • MS 66/IV J. & A.D. Grimond Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee, incorporating Lornty Spinning Co., Blairgowrie
  • MS 66/V John N. Kyd & Co. Ltd Jute Spinners, Dundee.
  • MS 66/VI Harry Walker & Sons Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee
  • MS 66/VII F.Stewart Sandeman & Sons Ltd, Cotton and Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Stanley (Perthshire) and Dundee
  • MS 66/VIII John Lowson Jnr, & Co. Ltd, Jute Manufacturers, Forfar
  • MS 66/IX Boase Spinning Co. Ltd, Flax, Hemp and Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee.
  • MS 66/X Sidlaw Industries Ltd, previously Jute Industries Ltd, Dundee.
  • MS 66/XI Miscellaneous Associated Affiliated and Subsidiary Companies of Jute Industries Ltd
  • MS 66/XII Miscellaneous and Unidentified Papers in Sidlaw Archive

Manuscripts from MS 67 to MS 120

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