Acc.4796 January 2014 Inventory Acc.4796 Fettercairn Papers National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected] © Trustees of the National Library of Scotland The Fettercairn Papers, including personal, and financial correspondence and papers, estate papers and charters, and a large series of architectural plans and drawings, of the family of Forbes and Stuart Forbes of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, 1447 – 20th cent. Deposited, 1969, by the late Mrs.P.G.C. Somervell Summary of arrangement of the collection: 1. Correspondence of Sir William Forbes, 5th Bart., of Fettercairn & Pitsligo 2-32. General Correspondence of Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart. 33-48. Special Correspondence of Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart. 1. Letters to and from Sir William Forbes, 5th Bart, 1712 c.1743 2. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1761-63, 1766-74 3. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1775-77 4. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1778-79 5. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1780 6. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1781-April 1782 7. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, May-December 1782 8. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1783 9. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1784 10. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, January-June 1785 11. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, July-December 1785 12. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1786 13. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, January-August 1787 14a. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, August 1787-April 1788 14b. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, May-December 1788 15. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, January-August 1789 16. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, September 1789-April 1790 17. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, May-December 1790 18. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, January-August 1791 19. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, September 1791-December 1792 20. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1793 21. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1794 22. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1795 23. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1796 24. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1797 25. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1798 26. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1799, 1800 27. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1801-April 1802 28. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, May-December 1802 29. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, January-September 1803 30. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, October 1803-April 1804 31. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, May-December 1804 32. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, 1805, 1806 33. Letters to Sir William Forbes, 6th Bart, n.d. 34. Correspondence relating to Mary Erskine: Letters to Sir William Forbes 1766-68 Drafts & copies by Sir William Forbes 1765-68 35. Various John Stuarts to Sir William Forbes Various John Forbes to Sir William Forbes Various William Forbes to Sir William Forbes 36. Mrs Patricia Blair to Sir William Forbes George Brown to Sir William Forbes John Burn to Sir William Forbes 1796-1800 Chevalier & Countesse Cicciaporcei to Sir William Forbes 1793-1804 Alexander Cleeve to Sir William Forbes 1783-1794 Charles Copland to Sir William Forbes 1769-1791 37. William Cumine to Sir William Forbes 1771-1797 William Cumine of Pittully to Sir William Forbes 1769-1778 Alexander D'Asti to Sir William Forbes 1786-1788 Henry Dundas to Sir William Forbes 1782-1804 James Dun to Sir William Forbes 1769-1797 38. James Dunlop to Sir William Forbes 1775-1805 Lord Dunsinnane to Sir William Forbes 1775-1793 John Durno to Sir William Forbes 1775-1806 39. Mr & Mrs Robert Fail Sir William Forbes 1771-1798 H Farquhar to Sir William Forbes 1798-1804 Francis Forbes to Sir William Forbes 1790-1801 Lord & Lady Forbes to Sir William Forbes 1771-1793 40. Hon John & Mrs Rebecca Forbes to Sir William Forbes 1766-1786 John Forbes to Sir William Forbes 1783-1806 Mr & Mrs George Forbes to Sir William Forbes 1772-1797 Charles Fraser to Sir William Forbes 1771-1803 41. William Fraser to Sir William Forbes 1772-1803 Monsieur Frossard to Sir William Forbes 1787-1788 Lord Glenbervie Sir to William Forbes 1803-1806 George Glennie to Sir William Forbes 1800-1806 Charles Gordon to Sir William Forbes Duke & Duchess of Gordon to Sir William Forbes 1783-1806 42. John Gregory to Sir William Forbes James Gregory to Sir William Forbes John Gregory (the Younger) to Sir William Forbes James Hay to Sir William Forbes 1770-1787 Walter Hog to Sir William Forbes 1773-1802 Ann Murray Keith to Sir William Forbes William Kelman to Sir William Forbes 1800-1806 43. Thomas Kennedy to Sir William Forbes 1788-1805 John Moffat to Sir William Forbes Moffatt & Co to Sir William Forbes Major & Mrs MacFarlane to Sir William Forbes 1769-1779 William Marshall to Sir William Forbes 1772-1804 George Moir to Sir William Forbes 1773-1805 44. Charles Ogilvie to Sir William Forbes Rebecca Ogilvie to Sir William Forbes Henry Ormsby to Sir Willliam Forbes 1782-1795 John Lothian to Sir William Forbes 1795-1803 Thomas Philips to Sir William Forbes 1803-1805 Sir John Pringle to Sir William Forbes 1778-1786 Walter Scott (father of author) to Sir William Forbes 1773-1798 Walter Scott to Sir William Forbes 1778-1802 Sir Robert & Lady Isabella Strange to Sir William Forbes 1783-1805 45. Letters to William Forbes from his children William to William Forbes c.1775-1806 John Hay to William Forbes c.1780-1801 Christian, James, Rebecca, Elizabeth to William Forbes George & Charles to William Forbes c.1780-1806 46. Sir William Forbes to Lady Forbes 1770-1794 47. Sir William Forbes to Lady Forbes 1795-1801 Sir William Forbes to Lady Forbes n.d. Lord Haddo to Lady Forbes 1780 48. Sir William Forbes to his son William (1771-1828) 1779-1806 49. Letters to Sir William Forbes (younger) 1786-1816 50. Letters to Sir William Forbes (younger) 1817-1828 & n.d. 51. Letters to Sir William Forbes (younger) from his family Letters to his eldest son William (d.1826) mostly from his brothers & sisters 1822-1826 Miscellaneous papers: accounts, notes & copies of letters, some in Willliam Forbes’s hand 52. Sir John Belsches Stuart to Sir William Forbes (younger) 1801-1813 Lady Jane Belsches Stuart to Sir William Forbes (younger) 1796-1800 Lady Williamina Forbes (née Belsches) to 1796-1803 Sir William Forbes (younger) 53. Letters to Sir John Stuart Forbes (1804-1866) 1817-1832 54. Letters to Sir John Stuart Forbes (1804-1866) 1833-1852 55. Letters to Sir John Stuart Forbes (1804-1866) 1853-1864 56. Letters to Sir John Stuart Forbes (1804-1866) 1864-1866 & n.d. 57. Letters (mainly to Sir John Stuart Forbes) concerning the subscriptions for, and the building of, the Scott Monument 1832-1835 58. Viscount Arbuthnott to Sir John Stuart Forbes 1831-1841 Lewis Chalmers to Sir John Stuart Forbes 1832-1864 George Robertson to Sir John Stuart Forbes 1834-1841 59. Charles Forbes to his brother Sir John Stuart Forbes to his brother 1818-1859 James D Forbes to his brother Sir John Stuart Forbes 1818-1866 60. Elizabeth Forbes to her brother Sir John Stuart Forbes 1818-1839 Jane Forbes to her brother 1819-1865 Sir John Stuart Forbes to her brother (mostly n.d.) Lady Harriet Forbes (née Kerr) to Sir John Stuart Forbes 1834-1839 Harriet Stuart Forbes to her father to Sir John Stuart Forbes 1854-1856 61. Hon Charles Trefusis to Sir John Stuart Forbes 1853-1866 Lord Clinton (19th) to Sir John Stuart Forbes Sir Alexander Wood to Sir John Stuart Forbes 1828-1831 D Kerr to John Stuart Forbes 62. Hon Charles Trefusis to Harriet Stuart Forbes 1850-1856 63. Hon Charles Trefusis to Harriet Stuart Forbes 1857-1858 Various correspondents to Harriet Stuart Forbes 64. Miscellaneous Forbes family letters c.1797-c.1870 Unidentified family correspondent 65. Letters to Sir John Belsches Stuart including James Mill letter 1776-1813 66. Letters to Sir John Belsches Stuart including James Mill letters 1814-1821 & n.d. 67. George Blair to Sir John Stuart 1813 David Davidson to Sir John Stuart 1811 Alexander Dods to Sir John Stuart 1807-1810 James Keyden to Sir John Stuart 1811-1820 68. Sir William Stuart to (Sir) John Belsches (Stuart) 1771-1777 William Stewart to Sir John Stuart 1811 Sir William Forbes (younger) to Sir John Stuart 1806-1821 Letters to Lady Jane Belsches Stuart 1797-1829 Sir Alexander Belsches to the Countess of Leven 1771-1773 (incl one from Sir John Stuart n.d.) Miscellaneous Stuart family letters 69. Miscellaneous notes, accounts, drafts, memoranda concerning Stuart of Fettercairn & many concerning the 1797 Kincardineshire elections Letter Book of Sir John Belsches Stuart 1776 70. James Home to Col John Hepburn Belsches 1796-1813 Letters to Col John Hepburn Belsches 1796-1809 71. Letters to Col John Murray Belsches, concerning St John’s Episcopal Church, Perth 1850-52 Memoranda, notes, estimates, receipts & subscription accounts for the Chapel 1851-59 Drawings & printed material 72. Letters to the 20th Lord Clinton 1865-1876 Hon Charles Trefusis to his father Lord Clinton 1870-1881 Letters to 20th Lord Clinton from his children Ada, Henry, Mary, Margaret, Edith Letters to 21st Lord Clinton 1885-1944 Letters to 21st Lord Clinton concerning Kincardineshire elections 1908 1908 Miscellaneous Clinton family correspondence c.1825-c.1908 Miscellaneous Clinton papers (mostly concerned with 21st Baron’s School Studies) 73.