Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Internal Manuscripts These comprise letters and other documents principally concerned with the administration of the Society and its Museum and Library, and they were not included in the main catalogued collection. The cataloguing process is still underway, and this listing will be updated regularly as work progresses. The manuscripts were formerly stored in bundles in trunks in the attic of NMAS in Queen Street and they are currently stored in clear pouches in acid-free boxes in cellars 1-3 in Chambers Street.

SAS Archives Internal Mss

List of headings under which papers are filed:

UC1 Royal reply to Society’s expressions of sympathy on the death of Queen Victoria, 27 March 1901.

UC2 Papers relating to SAS Committee for Excavations on Roman excavations.

UC4 Personal and legal papers relating to William and George Skene, 1837-1846.

UC5 Papers relating to a subscription to help the wife and seven children of the late Montague Stanley, 1844.

UC6 Papers relating to the Iona Club.

UC7 Miscellaneous W F Skene legal papers.

UC8 Certificate of election of W F Skene to Institut Historique, Paris.

UC9 Papers concerning the Society’s census of archaeological objects in Scotland 1891

UC10 Letters from Board of Trustees, The National Galleries of Scotland, Portrait Gallery Buildings, Edinburgh, January 1913 to May 1919.

UC11 Papers concerning the Traprain Excavations Fund Appeal 1920-1924.

UC12 Cast of skull of Robert the Bruce

UC13 Correspondence concerning Traprain Law excavations, 1914-1927

UC14 Letters concerning Joseph Anderson’s retirement as Keeper of NMAS, 1913.

UC15 Lists and analyses of artefacts held in NMAS.

UC16 Analyses of Fellows, Officers, & papers published in PSAS.

UC17 Papers relating to donations to and purchases for the Museum.

UC18 Letters to Dr Joseph Anderson from the Anthropological Society of London 1865-1869.

UC19 Letters to Joseph Anderson at the John o’ Groat Journal Office, Wick, on Caithness geology and archaeology 1861-1869.

UC20 Letters to Joseph Anderson relating to Anderson’s time in Constantinople, 1856-1859.

UC21 Letters to Joseph Anderson in Caithness on the subject of the curatorship of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Museum, 1869.

UC22 Letters to Joseph Anderson, as Local Secretary, from the Anthropological Society of London, 1864-1867.

UC23 Letters to Joseph Anderson at Wick from Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury) 1863-1864.

UC24 Letters to John Stuart as Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and related documents 1861-1876.

UC25 Letters to Joseph Anderson as Keeper of the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

UC26 Papers concerning threatened destruction of part of the Antonine Wall near Falkirk 1888-1889.

UC27 Letter to William Skene as Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

UC28 Photographs and drawings relating to antiquarian matters.

UC29 Letters and documents concerning the Rhind Lectureship.

UC30 Documents concerning the administration of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

UC31 Documents concerning the Society’s library and library exchanges.

UC32 Miscellaneous documents.

UC33 ‘Vouchers of Grant 1898-99 Returned by Board of Manufactures’: stamped receipts for artefacts for the Museum and books for the Library.

UC34 Papers concerning the acquisition and publication of the Monymusk Reliquary, 1933.

UC35 Correspondence 1852.

UC36 Correspondence 1853.

UC37 Correspondence 1854.

UC38 Correspondence 1855.

UC39 Original copy of the Memorial of he Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to the Right Hon Lord John Russell, First Lord of Her Majesty’s Treasury,

UC40 Letter and drawing concerning The Scottish Antiquarian Tradition ed A S Bell, 1981.

UC41 Draft of letter written on behalf of the Fellows to Her Majesty Queen Victoria 1882.

UC42 Papers from James Farrer concerning excavations in Eday, Orkney, 1855.

UC43 Correspondence concerning acquisition of Hallstatt bronze artefacts, 1865-1888.

UC44 Papers concerning the Jervise Bequest.

UC45 The Bell Collection of prehistoric and post-medieval artefacts.

UC46 Correspondence 1856-1869.

UC47 Reports by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to the Board of Trustees December 1929-December 1936.

UC48 Minutes of the Board of Trustees for the National Galleries of Scotland 1929-1932.

UC49 Documents concerning the Ordnance Survey, 1855 & 1893-4.

UC50 Documents relating to the Gunning Bequest.

UC51 Documents relating to Treasure Trove.

UC52 Documents concerning the Ancient Monuments Acts of 1882 & 1900.

UC53 Papers and photographs relating to the Society’s excavations at Mumrills Roman fort.

UC54 Documents relating to Society’s move to Royal Institution in 1859.

UC55 Society printed circulars 1827-1857.

UC56 Loans of material for major exhibitions.

UC57 Draft Council Minutes, 1863-64.

UC58 Samples of Society printed circulars 1933-1950.

UC59 Letters to Joseph Anderson from J Romilly Allen 1895-1897, concerning ECMS.

UC60 Personal papers belonging to A H Rhind.

UC61 Resignation letters from Fellows 1913-1930.

UC62 Press Sensorship Instructions, First World War, Orkney, 1916-18.

UC63 Correspondence with James L Caw, National Gallery, 1913-27.

UC64 Correspondence etc concerning Corkerhill 1938

UC65 Transcripts Maxwell & Herries Muniments

UC66 Correspondence concerning the St Stephen’s Lectern at St Albans, 1883-6.

UC67 Copy of letter from Council to the Board of Manufactures concerning Whithorn

UC68 Letters concerning the James Drummond bequest 1877-8.

UC69 J T Irvine on Shetland antiquities.

UC70 Correspondence concerning admittance fees to the Museum 1908.

UC71 Printed papers concerning the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle.

UC72 Letters between the Director of the National Museum of Antiquities and HM Office of Works, 1912-1927.

UC73 Letters between the Director of the National Museum of Antiquities and HM Office of Works, 1914-1937.

UC74 Letters in George Petrie’s notebook no. 4 (SAS 542).

UC75 Letter in George Petrie’s notebook no. 5 (SAS 543).

UC76 Papers concerning the Henry Rhind of Sibster Bequest 1874-5.

UC77 Correspondence between the National Museum of Antiquities and the Board of Trustees 1929-1936.

UC78 Correspondence between the National Museum of Antiquities and the Commission on Museums & Galleries, 1927-1936.

UC79 Correspondence between the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

and Brook & Son, about replicas of the Traprain Law silver treasure, 1919-1933.

UC80 Correspondence between the Museum and the King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer about Treasure Trove 1887-1907.

UC81 Memorials concerning the Institution of the Society of Antiquaries, 1782-1792.

UC82 Nineteenth-century memoranda of the Society.

UC83 Letters to J Black as Assistant Secretary to the Society.

UC84 Letters to the Society from the Board of Manufactures on practical matters concerning the Museum, 1897-1907.

UC85 Transfer of Shetland Museum artefacts to Edinburgh 1882.

Catalogue

UC1 Royal reply to Society’s expressions of sympathy on the death of Queen Victoria, 27 March 1901.

UC2 Papers relating to SAS Committee for Excavations on Roman excavations

2/1 Brown envelope in poor condition, labeled ‘Committee Roman Excavations, Mr Cunningham’s papers’.

2/2 Handwritten letter from John Abercromby at 62 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, to Mr Cunningham at the Society, dated 14 July [1902]. Covering letter for comments from committee members on David Christison’s report on Roman studies in Scotland. Recommends that excavations should be carried out in tandem with those on stone circles in Aberdeenshire & Mearns and that the committee members should supervise on a rota basis. Suggests that John Findlay should be invited to join the committee.

2/3 Handwritten comments on Christison’s report, signed J H Cunningham and dated 31 May 1902. Recommends that Christison’s valuable list of Roman sites should be printed in the Proceedings, that the acreage of each fort be provided, and that sites should be chosen for excavation south of the Tay and in NE Scotland.

2/4 Handwritten comments on Christison’s report, signed Thomas Ross and dated 2 June 1902, at 65 Frederick Street, Edinburgh. Suggests adding more references to past work. Early indications of location of fort at Cramond. Recommends excavation at Rough Castle.

2/5 Handwritten ‘Memorandum’ dated 21 June 1902 and signed Arthur Mitchell, with comments on Christison’s report. Recommens excavation at Rough Castle. Mentions John Abercromby’s offer of financial support for prehistoric excavations and suggests that a committee should be set up with Abercromby as convener.

2/6 Handwritten comments on Christison’s report by George MacDonald. Agrees that list of sites should be published. ‘In Scotland generally, interest in things Roman is much more general than interest in things prehistoric.’ Sought Haverfield’s opinion and encloses his comments.

2/7 Typewritten comments from Frances Haverfield, apparently edited in red ink by MacDonald. Importance of the Antonine Wall and work at Rough Castle. North of the Wall the extent of the Roman advance needs to be ascertained. Recommends test excavations on sites. Two sheets held together by textile tape.

2/8 Handwritten comments on Christison’s report by Robert Munro, dated 23 May 1902. Doubts financial viability of excavations. Support’s Abercromby’s proposal for work on prehistoric sites.

2/9 Handwritten comments on Christison’s report by John Abercromby and edited in red ink. Recommends publication of Christison’s report, and emphasizes need to remember needs of prehistoric archaeology. Includes suggestion that some prehistoric forts may be earlier than the Iron Age. Proposes two Exploration Funds: ‘one devoted to the elucidation of our native prehistoric antiquities; the other to the exploration of Roman stations and camps. To the first I am ready to contribute from £150 to £200 a year for the rest of my life or as long as I have the necessary funds at my disposal.’

2/10 White envelope in which Christison’s report was distributed to members of the Excavations Committee, with note initialed by Cunningham, ‘Please forward, with your comments, to the Member whose name follows yours on the list’.

2/11 Handwritten report by David Christison on the state of Roman sites in Scotland. List divided into sites south and north of Antonine Wall. Recommends excavation of Rough Castle once Castlecary is finished. Pencil comments in margin probably by Thomas Ross.

2/12 Typewritten copy of report of Excavations Committee to Council, with handwritten corrections and insertions.

2/13 Postcard from J H Cunningham at 2 Ravelston Place, Edinburgh, to Dr Christison, at 20 Magdalene Crescent, dated 20 October 1902. No need to call a meeting of the Excavations Committee.

UC3 Handwritten letter from John M Lindsay at Edinburgh to the Keeper of the Museum of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, dated 4 August 1865, accompanying an impression of the Quarter Seal of Scotland as requested by the Society.

UC4 Personal and legal papers relating to William and George Skene, 1837-1846. [No archaeological content]

4/1 Handwritten letter addressed to William Skene at 32 Great King Street, Edinburgh, from George Skene in Glasgow, 26 November 1845. Personal letter concerning family holding of shares in the Northern Coal Company. Folded, with traces of sealing wax.

4/2 Handwritten letter to William Skene at Edinburgh from Charles Edward in Prague. Concerns visit to Prague Cathedral, and attendance at a Royal wedding in the Imperial Chapel. Posted 16 October 1845.

Two sheets, folded one within the other, almost entire sealing wax stamp.

4/3 Handwritten letter to William Skene from Robert Fletcher at the Northern Investment & Exchange Company, Aberdeen, 11 February 1846. Concerning sale of shares. One sheet folded and addressed to Skene at Register House, Edinburgh, with traces of sealing wax and postage stamp.

4/4 Handwritten letter to Skene from ?A T Hamden, concerning buying shares in the Deeside Railway. Undated.

4/5 Handwritten letter to Skene from J L Robertson, concerning a loan of money, 7 March 1846.

4/6 Handwritten letter to William Skene from Robert Fletcher at the Northern Investment & Exchange Company, Aberdeen, 9 December 1845. Regrets that the North of Scotland Bank shares have not yet been sent to Skene. One sheet folded and addressed to Skene at Register House, Edinburgh, with traces of sealing wax and postage stamp.

4/7 Handwritten letter to William Skene from Henry Paterson at the North of Scotland Bank, Aberdeen, 9 September 1845, concerning shares. One sheet folded and addressed to Skene at Register House, Edinburgh, with traces of sealing wax and postage stamp.

4/8 Five printed share certificates, each for five shares in the Northern Coal Mining Company, each dated 1 September 1837.

4/9 Handwritten letter to William Skene from Robert Fletcher at the Northern Investment & Exchange Company, Aberdeen, 15 December 1845. Enclosing proceeds of sale of shares.

4/10 Handwritten letter to William Skene at Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, from Cunningham & Walker of Thistle Street, Edinburgh, acknowledging payment for shares in the Northern Coal Ming Company.

4/11 Printed copies of Aberdeen share lists for 18 November 1845 and 10 February 1846, mostly railways.

4/12 Four share certificates in the name of W F Skene for the Lanarkshire & Lothians Rail, the Carnwath & West Linton Rail, Great North of Scotland Railway and the Edin & Perth Railway, respectively.

4/13 Six notes relating to shares bought for George Skene in Cambridge Railway, Carlisle Extension Rail, Edin and Perth Rail and Glasgow & Belfast Rail, and shares in Great South of Scotland Railway sold, dated 17 October 1845.

4/14 Handwritten letter to George Skene from ?John Mackenzie of Edinburgh, dated 5 September 1844, concerning the Coal Mining Company. Four pages on two folded sheets.

4/15 Handwritten letter to W F Skene from Robert Purves, dated 23 May 1845, about shares in the Edinburgh Commercial company. With postage stamp.

4/16 Bill addressed to W F Skene from William Burness, printer, dated 24 March 1842 to 17 January 1844.

4/17 Note of sale of shares for W F Skene in the Glasgow & Belfast Railway, dated 20 May 1846.

4/18 Handwritten letter to W F Skene at Inverleith Row from the Union Bank of Scotland, dated 24 January 1846, querying withdrawal. Folded. Traces of sealing wax.

4/19 Printed prospectus of the Tigra Land and Sugar Company, addressed to W F Skene, 15 Jan 1846. Folded twice. Remains of sealing wax.

4/20 Handwritten letter to Mr Skene from Mr Drummond on subject of Mr Stuart’s daughters giving time to help at ‘your school’. Dated 8 January 1846.

4/21 Thirty-six items concerning financial affairs of Skene family.

4/22 Fifty items of legal papers from W F Skene’s office.

4/23 Letter to W F Skene from Alexander,11 Feb 1846, about family matters.

4/24 Eight notices of purchase or sale of shares in railway companies, relating to several members of Skene family.

4/25 Empty stamped ‘envelope’ addressed to George Skene at 17 Woodside Crescent, Glasgow. Black sealing wax.

4/26 Handwritten bill for various personal items, 10 July 1844.

4/27 Letter from George Skene to William Skene, Glasgow 27 December 1845. Requests help in payment of salary. Family matters.

4/28 Part of letter from George Skene to William Skene, 3 March 1846.

4/29 Part of letter to William Skene from J H Hughes, 9 August 1845, on academic matters.

4/30 Thirteen legal documents relating to the business of Skene & Macrae WS.

4/31 Gaelic document and translation.

4/32 Letter from John Boyd of York Place, Edinburgh, 4 December 1844, concerning tenant of Skene’s Inverleith Row house.

4/33 Letter to W Haldane of Messrs Haldane & Rae, Old Physic Garden, from J Watson, Manager, Edinburgh Gas Light Company, 1 March 1844, re Mr Skene’s account.

4/34 Long letter to J F Skene from Patrick Graham, Edinburgh, 10 May 1944, expressing annoyance over the situation with the Northern District School.

4/35 Letter to William Skene from the Foreign Office, 15 June 1844, in reply to Skene’s letter of 5 June. ‘no intelligence has been received at the Foreign Office regarding an attack made upon Mrs Skene’s family at Athens by Greek Robbers’.

4/36 Ten letters to W Skene from Capt Boswall, Professor Gregory and Lisette Gregory, letter from Skene to Mrs Gregory and copy of Skene’s reply to Boswall, June 1844, concerning legal negotiations over a cottage at Wardie.

4/37 Copy of letter to Lord Justice General, undated and illegible.

4/38 Letter to W F Skene from Wilfride Vent of Belfast, 17 May 1844, re financial difficulties.

4/39 Letter to W F Skene from R Chambers of High Street, Edinburgh, 20 June 1844, concerning latter’s paper on Macbeth in which an extract from Skene’s book has been used.

4/40 Letter to W F Skene from James Dunn of Aberdeen, 25 October 1843, re Skene’s enquiry about a search through the Sheriff Court books.

4/41 Three letters to W F Skene from Captain Robertson at Clare Castle in Ireland, 29 May 1844, London 15 June 1844, and Liverpool 21 June 1844, re concern at not hearing from Skene and genealogical matters. [One has penny stamp]

4/42 Letter from J ?Turnbull, Regents Park, 10 January 1846. Somewhat oblique references to Covenanters and Tabernacle, 225mm x 185mm, folded. Ink.

4/43 Letter and envelope to William Skene from A Macdonald Galbraith, Tornmore House, 24 October 1844, concerning Galbraith family history.

4/44 Twelve personal letters addressed to William Skene, including correspondence between him and his sister Felicia and his brother George.

4/45 Sixty-three letters and legal documents concerning William Skene’s legal practice, 1838-44.

4/46 Letters and legal documents concerning William Skene’s legal practice, 1839-43.

4/47 Handwritten list of subscriptions to the portrait of W Skene, totalling £142. 8s. Undated.

UC5 Papers relating to a subscription to help the wife and seven children of the late Montague Stanley, 1844.

5/1 Eleven copies of the printed paper calling for subscriptions, describing Montague Stanley’s achievements and listing those who have already subscribed. One has handwritten additional names.

5/2 Fifty-one handwritten letters, including two from the widow, Mary Stanley, and lists of subscribers, all relating to the fund for the Montague Stanley family and dated June 1844. Also statements of the fund dated 3 July 1844 and 12 November 1844.

5/3 Handwritten call for purchasers of shares in sale of Montague Stanley pictures then at British Museum.

5/4 Letter to William Skene from (illegible signature), Auchinbowie, 13 June 1844, concerning the railway’s responsibility towards the Stanley family.

5/5 Letter from R Greville, Blaloan, Stirling, 8 June 1844, concerning ‘grievous loss’ of Stanley’s pictures and sketches.

UC6 Papers relating to the Iona Club 1833-1836 (a publishing club for the history of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland – see D Laing in Archaeologia Scotica, vol 5, 16). See also UC 25/1.

6/1 Fifteen copies of a printed Minute of an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 17 November 1836 ‘for the purpose of Electing a Secretary in room of the late Donald Gregory’. William F Skene was elected Secretary and Archibald McNeill was elected a Councillor. Part IV of the Collectanea to be printed over the winter. Copies addressed to The Very Reverend George H Baird (Principal of Edinburgh University), Sir Donald Campbell of Dunstaffnage, Sutherland Mackenzie, Adolphus M Sccales, Alexander Simson, Sir James Miles Riddell of Ardnamurchan, Forbes Macneill, and Laclan Macneill of Drumdrissary (these not sent presumably)

6/2 Two printed receipts made out to Forbes Macneill, each for

one guinea, one being entry fee to the Iona Club and the other an annual subscription for 1833, signed by William F Skene as Treasurer. Also five printed receipts made out to Sir J A Stewart of Grandtully, Malcolm MacNeill & John McNeill of Colonsay as membership of Iona Club, signed by James Robertson as Treasurer.

6/3 Handwritten note originally accompanying two guineas for entry and annual subscription to the Iona Club for A Leith.

6/4 Handwritten letter to James Robertson from Donald Gregory, mostly about Iona Club fees and the Collectanea.

6/5 Handwritten bill for food addressed to the Iona Club. Glasgow 2 September 1833.

6/6 Lists of paid-up subscribers and subscribers in arrears, handwritten. Annotated list of members.

6/7 Handwritten letter addressed to James Robertson at 62 Queen Street from Donald Gregory of Tray near Arisaig, dated 6 September 1834, Refers to the publication of his work on the West Highlands and Islands, to a two-day meeting of the club, to the collection of Gaelic songs, and to a future meeting in Inverness.

6/8 Handwritten letter to James Robertson as Treasurer of the Iona Club at 66 Great King Street from John Mackinlay of Borrowstonness, dated 25 November 1839, concerning the legitimacy of expecting him to contribute more money as a subscriber. Club is clearly failing. Enquires as to the nature of the collections of the late Donald Gregory, which were purchased by the Club, and which include papers relating to Buteshire. Intact wax seal.

6/9 Three handwritten bills relating to 1833 and 1834.

6/10 Letter to James Robertson from John Mackenzie, 19 Scotland St, Edinburgh, 16 March 1836, proposing Alexander Nicholson as a member of the Iona Club.

6/11 Letter to James Robertson from James A Robertson, Gask, 12 June 1833, enclosing order to pay entrance fee and subscription to Iona Club.

6/12 Lists of subscription payments.

6/13 7 Bills and receipts for advertising in various newspapers, 1837-9.

6/14 Bill and receipt for loan of china from Geddes Kidston & Co, plus 3 years’ interest.

6/15 3 bills for stationery, 1836,1839 and 1845.

6/16 Letter of authority and receipt for 20 guineas for purchase of Donald Gregory’s papers, 1936.

6/17 3 items of correspondence concerning payment for iron items ordered by the late Donald Gregory from Liddell & Co, furnishing ironmongers, 1833-6.

6/18 Receipt from David Laing for 1 guinea paid by Iona Club as subscription for his History of the County of Dublin, 20 November 1839.

6/19 Bills and receipt plus 3 years’ interest for wines bought for the Iona Club, 1836.

6/20 Bill from Robert Ritchie, furnishing ironmonger, High Street, Edinburgh, 2 April 1836, for japanned charter chest for 18/6.

6/21 Receipt, July 1836 (not clear for what).

6/22 Letter to William Skene from G Murray, London, 31 May 1834, re subscription to Iona Club.

6/23 Letter to W Skene from John Mackinlay of Borrowstonness, 14 November 1839, requesting copy of Iona Club Transactions and a copy of the Minute of the last meeting.

6/24 Printed certificate commemorating the election of William Forbes Skene as a member of the Institut Historique, Paris,10 March 1842.

6/25 Part of a handwritten article about an outlaw named Robert Abroch, addressed ‘To the Editor’. Possibly for the Collectanea.

UC7 Eighteen miscellaneous legal papers belonging to W F Skene, including nineteenth-century acts & warrants concerning sequestered estates, and transcriptions of older documents going back to the fourteenth century.

UC8 Papers concerning John Bruce and the Traprain Law Treasure These were acquired by the Society in 1999 after their discovery in a skip in Helensburgh.

8/1 Handwritten, 62-page lecture on The Treasure of Traprain by John Bruce, written April 1919 and given in Rothesay 4 February 1930.

8/2 Newspaper cutting from The Buteman and West Coast Chronicle, Friday, 14 Feb 1930, about lecture by John Bruce about the Traprain Treasure.

8/3 Prints and engravings of artefacts in the Traprain Treasure.

8/4 Letter to Fionna Ashmore, Director, Society of Antiquaries of Sctland, from John Mitchell, 20 Feb 1999, concerning newspaper cuttings book compiled by John Bruce in Helensburgh Public Library. Also photocopy from the cuttings book. Also photocopied page from article on ‘Excavation archives: preservation and chance’ , annotated by Fionna Ashmore and relating to Bruce’s journal of a tour to Spain in 1905 [see Newsletter 10.2, Feb 1999]

8/5 Handwritten journal in pencil of a business tour to Spain in 1905 by John Bruce. Mentions finds from Dumbuck crannog and supposed parallels in museum in Madrid.

8/6 Small photograph album, undated and untitled, presumably John Bruce’s family and friends. [nothing archaeological]

UC9 Papers concerning the Society’s census of archaeological objects in Scotland 1891.

9/1 Letter to David Christison from Rev George Wilson, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, 13 May 1891, in reply to Christison’s request for a ‘statement of my opinion on the subject of making a complete and accurate catalogue of the archaeological objects, such as forts, cairns etc in my part of Scotland’. Two pages of discussion and two of lists of types of sites.

UC10 Letters from and reports to Board of Trustees, The National Galleries of Scotland, Portrait Gallery Buildings, Edinburgh, January 1913 to May 1919. Subjects include the appointment of A O Curle, the change of title from Director to Keeper, the appointment of Edwards as assistant curator and precautions against suufragettes. Also letter of 9 May 1911 concerning arrest of FR Coles for attempting to pawn Museum artefacts [see UC1].

UC11 Papers concerning the Traprain Excavations Fund Appeal

11/1 Four handwritten lists of Traprain silver reproductions sold between 1 March 1922 and 31 August 1924. Triangular beaded dish was consistently the best seller.

11/2 Handwritten list of subscribers to Excavation Fund, 1920-21.

11/3 Typewritten list of persons to whom appeal for subscriptions to Traprain Excavation Fund to be sent (not Fellows). Also undercopy of covering letter to Messrs Neill & Co.

11/4 Two copies of proofs of illustrated appeal brochure for Traprain Excavation Fund, 2 December 1920, one with handwritten amendments. Also accompanying letter to Lord Carmichael as President and Carmichael’s reply.

11/5 Handwritten letter to J G Callander at the Society from John

Bruce of Inverallan, Helensburgh, accompanying handwritten list of people to whom he has sent copies of the Society’s circular. Dated 8 December 1920.

11/6 Typed and handwritten rough drafts for Traprain circular and paper concerning gifts to charities.

11/7 Undercopy of typewritten letter to printer from Assistant Secretary, accompanying text of Traprain Appeal circular and copy of printed Newstead appeal of March 1908 for style. Also copy of earlier printed Newstead appeal of November 1905. Also covering letter to printer to accompany revised proofs, 27 November 1920, and a letter with an order for ‘a book of 350 receipt forms’, 3 December 1920.

11/8 Three examples of printed illustrated appeal brochure for Traprain Excavation Fund, 2 December 1920.

UC12 Handwritten measurements of cast of skull of Robert the Bruce, on SAS headed notepaper, dated 3 July 1902.

UC13 Correspondence and account book concerning Traprain Law excavations, 1914-1927.

UC14 Letters concerning Joseph Anderson’s retirement as Keeper of NMAS, 1913.

14/1 Two undercopies of typewritten letter to Anderson from Herbert Maxwell as President, accompanying cheque for £600, dated 12 June 1913.

14/2 Undercopy of typewritten letter to Maxwell from Anderson, expressing his thanks, dated 17 June 1913.

UC15 Lists and analyses of artefacts held in NMAS.

15/1 Handwritten list of ‘Ornamented or Polished Stone Balls’, with analysis in pencil.

15/2 Handwritten list of ‘Oval Knife-like Implements. Shetland’, with analysis in pencil.

15/3 Handwritten list of ‘Bronze Armlets’.

15/4 Handwritten list of ‘Silver Chains’ with pencil annotations.

15/5 14 sheets of lined paper, some folded, handwritten, enumerating and analysing the artefacts listed in the 1849 NMAS catalogue.

15/6 Handwritten list of ‘Relics from the Sands. Culbin Sands & Luce Sands’.

15/7 Handwritten list of artefacts from Dunadd fort, Argyll. Initialled

J R C.

15/8 Letter and reports from W Ivison Macadam of the Analytical Laboratory, Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, 30 March 1881, concerning analysis of metal of bronze sword and ‘bronze’ lion ewer, and returning the sword.

15/9 List of antiquities purchased for the Museum from George Wilson, Glenluce, December 1891.

15/10 List, envelope and photograph from Professor Hitchcock of Amherst College, Massachusetts, concerning casts of American Indian pots held in the Gilbert Museum of Amherst College.

15/11 Letter to John Alexander Smith from W Ivison Macadam, 28 December 1880, concerning analysis of silver and referring to a chain.

15/12 Analysis of silver chain from Hordwell by W Ivison Macadam, Surgeon’s Hall, 17 Dec 1880.

15/13 List of Roman altars from Birrens belonging to the University of Edinburgh, 1 Feb 1865.

15/14 Analysis of bell from Fortingall by W Ivison Macadam, Surgeon’s Hall, 9 March 1880.

15/15 Handwritten list of Anglo-Saxon silver pennies and gold & silver artefacts, 1895.

UC16 Analyses of Fellows, Officers, & papers published in PSAS.

16/1 Handwritten list of Fellows in printed lists 1851-1901.

16/2 Handwritten list of office-bearers from 1879.

16/3 Handwritten note of number of volumes in the Library: 10,875 (undated).

16/4 Printed leaflet for 1900 Rhind Lectures by Joseph Bain, with annotated list of previous Lecture series on reverse.

16/5 Handwritten list of numbers of pages in PSAS vols 1-34.

16/6 Handwritten analysis of number of papers read to Society & papers printed, 1780-1901. Also detailed analyses for Archaeol Scotica & PSAS.

UC17 Handwritten papers relating to donations to and purchases for the Museum

17/1 Letter from George Lang of 61 Great King Street, dated 4 April

1867, accompanying nine documents from his father’s estate. Including letters from General Monck to the Laird of Glenorchy.

17/2 Letter from John Grant of 15 Dean Terrace, dated 13 July 1863 and addressed to George Seton. Accompanied Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commissioners of Supply for the County of Dumfries from 3 Jan 1692 to 3 July 1711.

17/3 Letter from George C Maxwell of 1 South Clerk Street, dated 8 Oct 1863, accompanying a tinderbox.

17/4 Letter from John Evans of Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, dated 26 June 1863, addressed to Mr Culloch. Evans has sent separately 8 flint implements from St Acheul near Amiens. Annotated in pencil as PSAS 5, 186.

17/6 Letter from Alex Carmichael of Lochmaddy, dated 16 August 1870, addressed to J Anderson. He is to send some stone implements from Barra including ‘Fingal’s slipper’. Annotated in pencil as PSAS 8, 415.

17/7 Two letters from Elizabeth ?Togleton of 60 Frederick Street, dated 23 June and 26 June 1863, concerning an inscribed pincushion. (PSAS 5, 285 ‘by a Lady’).

17/8 Letter from Lewis N Fraser of Achroisk farm, Blackhillock, dated 20 October 1869, concerning urn found in inhumation grave on farm in 1868. Farm. Annotated in pencil as PSAS 8, 341

17/9 Note from Stevenson Macadam with analysis of ochre found in ‘cup’ from Bay of Skaill, Orkney. Annotated in pencil as PSAS 7, 433.

17/10 Two letters from Clare M Cameron of St Helier, undated, concerning a spoon that belonged to her mother.

17/11 Letter from Lawson Tait of Waterloo Street, Birmingham, dated 16 December, concerning a pair of handcuffs used in the county jail at Dornoch. Annotated in ink as PSAS 9, 79.

17/12 Letter from R B A McLeod, dated 17 January 1870, concerning loan of brooches and seven pieces of bronze found in 1859 Annotated in ink as PSAS 8, 304 (Rogart brooches, see also UC17/87).

17/13 Letter from John Berry of Tayfield, Newport, Fife, dated 11 May and addressed to Joseph Anderson. Corrects findspot of cist and necklace as Balgay on the north side of the Tay rather than Tayfield. Annotated in ink as PSAS 8, 411.

17/14 Letter from George Petrie at Kirkwall, dated 9 August 1969 and addressed to John Stuart. Has shipped by the steamer St Magnus to Granton two stone urns found in a cist in an ancient

cemetery in Stronsay the previous week, and sherds of another urn found some years ago. Annotated in ink as PSAS 8, 231, 347.

17/15 Letter from J Hannah on behalf of the Bishops of Trinity College, Glenalmond, dated 18 Nov 1863, addressed to W T McCulloch, with list of 30 seals sent on loan to the Museum. Annotated in ink as PSAS 5, 221.

17/16 Letter from Christiana Hogarth of Union Place, Leith Walk, date 24 July 1864, concerning Repentance Stool from Old Greyfriar’s Church. Annotated in ink as PSAS 5, 285-6.

17/17 Letter from W Lauder Lindsay of Pitcullen House, Perth, dated 3 March 1864 and addressed to W T McCulloch. Annotated in ink as PSAS 5, 327.

17/18 Letter from William Stevenson of Dunse, dated 12 November 1863 and addressed to W T McCulloch. Enclosing a note on the cist found in 1862 near Dunse and accompanying a tooth and sherds of an urn. Annotated in ink as PSAS 5, 240, 279-83.

17/19 Letter from William Smith of Alma House, Morley, dated 26 July 1869 and addressed to J Stuart. Concerning a printed sermon in German by Martin Luther. Annotated in ink as ‘not in PSAS’.

17/20 Two letters on Memorandum paper from John Hilson of Bongate Woollen Mills, Jedburgh, dated 12 April and 14 April 1870 and addressed to Joseph Anderson. First concerns a bronze shield found in bog at Yetholm a few days previously, and a cup-and-ring marked stone found in garden in Jedburgh. Second concerns same carved stone and how the owner might be persuaded to part with it. See PSAS 8, 393.

17/21 Letter from Capt F W L Thomas of Rosepark, Trinity, dated 17 March 1870, addressed to Joseph Anderson. Regrets ill heath has prevented him from meeting Anderson. His friend Carmichael of Loch Maddy is anxious to know how his communication to the Society was received and asks whether the Society would like to have some stone mortars from Barra. ‘I have a number of drawings which I shall be glad to show and discuss with you – a dun of an entirely new type – and another in which lime mortar has been used in its construction. I see Sir H. Dryden has deposited his drawings with the Society – could I have the loan of that volume that contains the Shetland Broughs?’

17/22 Letter from J ?Dewarwich of City Chambers, Edinburgh, dated 24 October 1866 and addressed to James Sinclair, Albany Herald, informing him that the Old City Wall in Drummond Street has been ‘cleared of the unpleasing boards etc’ to which attention was drawn in Sinclair’s petition.

17/23 Note from ?? enclosing a lock of Bothwell’s hair. Sept 1863.

17/24 Note about a ‘flint block for spearhead’, found at Lewistown in the state of New York.

17/25 Letter from John Buchanan of Royal Crescent, Glasgow, dated 14 June 1864, about photographs of portraits of General Wolfe and Colonel Rickson. (See 17/31 below.)

17/26 Letter from Alex Carmichael of Lochmaddy, dated 27 February and addressed to W F Skene, mainly concerning carved font from St Maelrubha, Skye. Pencil annotation PSAS 8, 237; 20, 229.

17/27 Letter from J E Alexander of Westerton, Bridge of Allan, dated 20 November 1864, addressed to John Stuart, about excavations at Cambuskenneth Abbey. Pencil annotation PSAS 6, 14.

17/28 Letter from John Struthers, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 3 May 1897, presenting ‘Hair from the Macdonalds’ Cave, Eigg’, formerly the property of his brother, Dr James Struthers of Leith.

17/29 Letter from R B Armstrong of Littleton, Girvan, dated 5 June 1871, addressed to Joseph Anderson, enclosing a brooch from Brae near Girvan. Pencil annotation PSAS 9, 249.

17/30 Letter from W H Scott dated 15 February 1855, enclosing note written by James Hunt of Pittencrieff about the coin die of Alexander III. Pencil annotation PSAS 2, 16-17, 52-5.

17/31 Three letters from John Buchanan of Eildon Terrace, Glasgow, dated 19 February and 19 March 1862 and addressed to John Stuart. The letters all concern the presentation to the Society of 12 letters of General James Wolfe addressed to his friend William Rickson 1749-1758 (see 17/25 above). Pencil annotation PSAS 4, 442, 455.

17/32 Letter from A Henry Rhind from 40 York Crescent, Clifton, Bristol, 23 September 1862. He has corrected the proof of the Handbook of Egyptian Antiquities. He has just moved from Down House, and will sail from Southampton to Egypt on 2 Oct for a month.

17/33 Letter from James Hutchison of The Scotch Warehouse, Oxford Street, London, dated 25 April 1866, and addressed to ‘The Secretary Scotch Antiquarian Society’. He has the drinking cup and sea chest belonging to Alexander Selkirk, Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’, and offers them for sale to the Museum. (They were purchased eventually by Sir David Baxter who presented them to the Museum in January 1870, PSAS 8, 256-62.)

17/34 Letter from Richard A Powell, Commodore of HMS ‘Topaze’, written from Port Mont, Chile, on 27 January 1869, and addressed to Thomas Selcraig at Edinburgh. Describes location of tablet to Alexander Selkirk in the island of Juan Fernandez and accompanies photograph of tablet. With the letter is a newspaper cutting dated 18 July 1872 about the tablet and its location.

17/35 Letter from David Milne Home of Paxton House, Berwick on Tweed, dated 7 January 1869 and addressed to John Stuart. Refers to Stuart’s forthcoming paper on Edin’s Hall. He is anxious that the site should be ‘protected from further dilapidation’, for he knows that stones are constantly robbed from the walls and cattle trample on the remains. He proposes that a stone wall should be built around the site, paid for by subscription and directed by a committee. Wishes Stuart to read out his letter to the meeting. (See PSAS 8, 41-6.)

17/36 Letter from J I F Thallon of the North British Railway Company dated 6 April 1869, addressed to the Curator of the Museum. Thomas Dick, the station master at Kinghorn, Fife, wishes to present to Society an urn which was found on 13 February in ‘a grave in a field west from Grangehill Farm in the Parish of Kinghorn’. (See PSAS 8, 143.)

17/37 Letter from R J Mapleton of Dunhoon Castle, Lochgilphead, dated 2 April 1870. He will send a cast of an ‘ogham’ stone and a cast of a stone with axe carvings from a cist, donated by Alexander Fraser, Malcolm of Poltalloch’s architect and Clerk of Works at Kilmartin. (See PSAS 8, 378-81.)

17/38 Letter from George Petrie at Kirkwall, 6 January 1871, addressed to Joseph Anderson. Excavations at broch of Lingrow have resumed but weather inclement. Young lady visitor discovered Roman silver coin on spoil heap. Encloses sketches of two bone combs found at Lingrow.

17/39 Letter from George Petrie at Kirkwall, 4 July 1871, addressed to Joseph Anderson. Petrie has two stone urns of similar shape from parish of Stenness and will send one to Anderson. Has been excavating at the Howe of Hoxa. Reproachful that Society has not published his paper on brochs. Visited ‘Cubbie Row’ with Sir Henry Dryden and found that farmer had been quarrying stones from one corner. Sculptured stone has been found with Maltese cross [Flotta].

17/40 Letter from James Thomas Irvine of Coombe Down, Bath, dated 28 March 1870 and addressed to John Stuart. He owns the pair of bronze spoons found at Weston near Bath and wishes to loan them to the Museum. They have been ‘engraved’ by A Way for a paper and he is willing that the blocks can be used by the Society if desired. (See PSAS 8, 360-4.) (see 17/247 for donation of spoons.)

17/41 Seven letters from Thomas Edmonston of Buness, Unst, Shetland Isles to Joseph Anderson, dated 25 June to 14 November 1870, and one related letter from Mrs Budge of Seafield Cottage, Mid Yell, to Edmonston 7 July 1870. 25 June In reply to Anderson’s letter of17 June. Mentions chair and Mrs Budge’s testimony as to its authenticity. 27 June Has sent the Spanish Admiral’s chair by steamer to Edinburgh. 14 July Encloses Mrs Budge’s letter of 7 July about the history of the chair. (See PSAS 8, 470-2.) Also has some stone implements and weapons from northern Unst that the Society may have, but mentions a ‘rebuff I have lately received from your Society’. 3 August In reply to Anderson’s ‘kind note’ of 27 July. Edmonston is unable physically to supervise the excavations himself but has an ‘intelligent substitute’, and he will ensure that ‘the money is spent solely for the purpose for which it is given’. (See PSAS 9, 283, 355). 31 August James Hay is supervising the excavations which have been successful in obtaining artefacts. 8 October Accompanying a sketch of ‘one side of the stone showing the characters’, also refers to steatite ‘ladle’. 14 November ‘By the same steamer that carries this you will receive two boxes containing the results of our labours in Unst’. Edmonston has prepared a paper for the Society (PSAS 9, 283-7).

17/42 Two letters from Alexander Laing of Newburgh. 5 April 1871, to J Stuart, concerning find of flint ‘spear head’ from Gattaway in Perthshire by fisherman David Bennet, who has ‘a thorough scent for antiquities’. (PSAS 9, 182.) Enclosed letter from Bennet to Laing on the same subject, dated 2 April 1871, describing the find spot. 2 May 1882, to J Anderson. Concerning a stone from Borness, Kirkcudbrightshire, and a silver coin from Kirkcudbright, sent to him by James Man, fisherman.

17/43 Five letters from James Neish of The Laws, Dundee. 29 August 1870. To J Anderson. Went to the church at Monifieth and arranged with a wright for the packing and transport of carved stones. 20 August 1870. To J Stuart. As requested, Neish has written a paper about the stones (PSAS 9, 59, 71-7). Neish still has

the implements from Glenshee pending a visit from Jervise. Perforated ‘cones of clay’ (loomweights) from Ravensby, Forfarshire (PSAS 9, 154, 174-6). 21 December 1870. To J Anderson. Refers to skull sent previously, presented by Mrs Scrimgeour Fotheringhame of Tealing, found in cist at Tealing. Enclosed photographs of Glenshee implements 31 January 1871. To J Anderson. Re photographs of clay loomweights and delay in sending them to the Museum. 13 February 1871. Re loomweights and Glenshee implement. 11 March 1871. To J Anderson. Draws attention to a typographical error in the notice of donations just received.

17/44 Letter from Robert Harris of Camphill, Paisley, to J Stuart, 30 November 1870, enclosing a ticket for a series of lectures given in Edinburgh in 1768 by the astronomer, James Ferguson (PSAS 9, 57).

17/45 Letter from David Milne Home at 10 York Place, 3 June 1872, to J Anderson, enclosing paper on Harefaulds and two letters relating to it. One of the two letters is present, from James Middleton at The Manse, Lauder, to Milne Home at Paxton House, 2 Nov 1871, concerning the Spanish dollar from Harefaulds

17/46 Note recording discovery by Rev William Duke of carved stone ball ‘while superintending the planting of ivy at the west end of St Vigeans Church’. (PSAS 16, 176.)

17/47 Long letter from Robert Blue of Westminster Chambers, London, to Cosmo Innes of Inverleith House, Edinburgh, 9 July 1866. ‘I learn with unfeigned satisfaction that the Fibulae are considered rather interesting specimens.’ Describes their discovery during railway construction, London to Cambridge line, also Roman coins, urns and skeletons (PSAS 7, 318-19).

17/48 Letter from Robert Graham Thoms of Clepington House Dundee, to James Drummond, 27 December 1869, listing artefacts of the Naga tribes of the Himalyayas that he would like to present to the museum (PSAS 8, 340-1, 342-7).

17/49 Letter from Hugo Reid of Wyndham Place, London, to John Stuart, 9 Oct 1869, concerning the Dunbar Arms on the ruins of Dunbar Castle, which are at risk of erosion. Discusses the make-up of the arms. Too difficult to photograph, needs a drawing and Reid hopes that the Society may be able to help.

17/50 Letter from Henry Cadell of Grange, Boness, to John Stuart, concerning the Bridgeness Roman distance slab, 23 Jan 1869.

Describes its discovery and is about to have it sent to the Society. (PSAS 8, 5, 67, 109-113.)

17/51 Two letters from Robert Garland of Cowhythe, Portsoy. 18 Oct 1869, to John Stuart, concerning finds from Craig of Boyne, Banffshire. 8 January 1870, in answer to Stuart’s letter of 23 Oct 1869, with details of the discovery. (Quoted in PSAS 8, 290-2.)

17/52 Letter from W H Henderson at the Procurator Fiscal’s Office, Linlithgow, 13 June 1870, with information about a shell midden at Inveravon.

17/53 Letter from Charles S Temple of Cloisterseal, Udny, Aberdeenshire, 25 November 1863, to accompany box of prehistoric and later artefacts for the museum, including flint arrowheads (PSAS 5, 185-6).

17/54 Letter from L Tait (see 17/11 above), no date, to accompany donation of three flints, one from the sands at Dornoch and one from a cist in a mound along with sherds of pottery and a bone.

17/55 Letter from R W Patrick of Quinish, Tobermory, Mull, to J Anderson, 31 August (no year), concerning a bronze vessel in the shape of a lion ‘w. I understand was found in the old Canoe’ by W J Armstrong of Fairlie, Greenock.

17/56 Letter from Robert H McKirdy, Constable, Dunbartonshire Constabulary, Kilcreggan, 16 July 1880, concerning silver Highland brooch found on Culloden Moor, with 1:1 sketch of the brooch, inherited by him and offered for sale for one pound. (PSAS 16, 412; 19, 332; 20, 176.)

17/57 Note from Robert Begg to J Anderson, no date, concerning sketch of the Coldrain Cairn and Anderson’s possible visit to see it.

17/58 Letter to the SAS Trustees from j Gemmell of Smeaton, Victoria, Australia, 18 October 1881, presenting the flag of the Muirkirk division of the Covenanters of Scotland, with covering note in pencil.

17/59 Letter from David Wilson of Charlotte Street, Ballymoney, 17 December 1877, to Mr Chapman. Concerns a helmet found on an Antrim battlefield, also mentions flint flakes. Pencil annotation ‘Not true’.

17/60 Note, unsigned and undated, about wooden anthropomorphic figure found in the river bank of the Teign in the parish of Kingsteignton.

17/61 Letter from Dougald Campbell of Strathconon Forest, Muir of Ord, 14 Oct 1884, to Dr Arthur Mitchell, concerning the discovery of ‘a lump of adipose’ in a peat bog (bog butter).

17/62 Letter from Charles Cook of 61 North Castle Street, Edinburgh, to Dr Arthur Mitchell, 4 Oct 1883, accompanying a stone axe found near Drumlithie, Kincardineshire in 1883, and a flint arrowhead from Mains of Banas, Kincardineshire. (PSAS 23, 7-8).

17/63 Letter to John Stuart from C J Newton, British Museum, 11 August 1862. Advises that a box has been sent by rail containing a few glass and terracotta objects found at Halicarnassus and donated by himself to the Society’s collection.

17/64 Letter from W A Turton, 14 Regent’s Row, Dalston, 29 October 1864. Informs that the Coin Cabinet has been packed and sent, and encloses account.

17/65 Note from Sir P Throupland of articles found ‘inside the wall of Hurley Hawkin 25 November 1859, with sketch of site, together with list in another hand of objects that Throupland sent on 21 March 1865.

17/66 Letter to John Stuart from Thomas Graham at the Royal Mint, 13 March 1857, to accompany the Great Seal of Scotland of George III and the ‘Quarter’ Seal of George IV for the Society’s collection, also a set of plaster casts of the same seals.

17/67 Handwritten list of books published by John Stevenson, Bookseller, 87 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 1825-1830, and Thomas G Stevenson of the same address 1831-1845.

17/68 Letter to Joseph Anderson from John McLean, Kingharair, Tobermory, Mull, 23 January 1883, confirming the loan to the Museum of his brooch. Attached to copy letter from Anderson, 9 February 1883, thanking McLean for the loan of the brooch. [silver penannular brooch]

17/69 Letter from Henry Forbes, 57 Princes Street, 20 March 1840, presenting to the Society the key of the old Scottish Mint in South Gray’s Close, High Street. Also sends a key that he found in the ruins of Craigmillar Castle.

17/70 Letter from William Simison, 13 Bruntsfield Place, 17 February 1855. Concerning gift of Roman pottery from stone ‘coffins’ in the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

17/71 Letter to Donald Gregory, Secretary, from John Anderson of Moray Place, 18 September 1835. Accompanies seven presentations by the Lovat famiy.

17/72 List of stone implements from Orkney.

17/73 Note of two stones axes found in New South Wales and presented by William Chambers.

17/74 Letter from J Hibbert of Sheffield accompanying a printed catalogue of sketches by William Daniell of antiquities in Lewis and Iona.

17/75 Memorandum of Seals in the Society’s Collection.

17/76 Note of artefacts from Egypt, written on SAS notepaper.

17/77 Letter from Lady Murray of 11 Great King Street, 12 March 1860, presenting artefacts belonging to her late husband.

17/78 Letter to John Stuart from ??, Trinity Church, Paisley, 3 September 1860, concerning North American Indian arrowheads.

17/79 Letter to Joseph Anderson from ?? of New College, Edinburgh, 8 June 1883, concerning gift by James Kerr of Kelso of unpublished ‘verses’ by Sir Walter Scott.

17/80 List of identified specimens of deer horns from Scottish sites sent from British Museum, 17 November 1869.

17/81 Letter to John Stuart from David Laing, Secretary to the Signet Library, Edinburgh, 6 March 1860, concerning donation to the Society of ‘the oak Cabinet, containing an extensive series of casts of early Scottish Seals, which stood so long in the Society’s former apartments’.

17/82 Note from Chas Peach of 30 Haddington Place, 13 May 1867, concerning donation of urn and other Roman antiquities from Northamptonshire.

17/83 Letter to Joseph Anderson from James Veish, 1 September 1870, providing details of donations of stone artefacts from Monifieth, Angus.

17/84 Letter to John Stuart from Robert Hutcheson of Carlowie, Kirkliston, 30 April 1860, concerning cist with inhumation.

17/85 Letter to Cosmo Innes from J Dick Lauder of Greenhill House, Edinburgh, 25 March 1861, concerning donation of two bronze axe-heads and a spearhead from Sluie on the Findhorn (PSAS 4, p 187).

17/86 Letter from Adam Matheson, 50 High Street, Jedburgh, 29 December 1870, concerning urn.

17/87 Letter from R B MacLeod of Invergordon Castle, Ross-shire, 4 January 1870, concerning the exhibition of silver brooches from Rogart parish, Sutherland (PSAS 8, p 304). See also

UC17/12.

17/88 Letter from Canon Greenwell of Durham, 9 January 1870, concerning flint implements (PSAS 8, p 302).

17/89 Letter from James Brydon of Hawick, 7 March 1870, concerning Border hillforts.

17/90 Letter to David Laing from Archibald Clark of Kilmartin Manse, 22 March 1870, concerning a Highland dirk from Culloden and two penannular gold rings.

17/91 Letter to John Stuart from H F Talbot of 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh, 10 March, enclosing translation of the Assyrian inscription in the Museum.

17/92 Letter to McCulloch from D D Black of Kergord, Brechin, 5 March 1868, concerning donation of Shetland artefacts.

17/93 Letter from H Chisholm of Strontian, 18 August 1870, concerning an inscribed Highland brooch (and sent photograph).

17/94 Letter from M G Gibson of Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries, 16 November 1870, concerning seal, copper coin and bronze axe, all from Caerlaverock Castle.

17/95 Letter from M G Gibson of Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries, 8 December 1870, thanks for plates and encloses paper on clay pipes.

17/96 Letter to Joseph Anderson from R B MacLeod of Invergordon Castle, Ross-shire, 31 January 1870, giving permission for casts to be made of the Rogart brooches (see 17/87). Wishes the larger brooch to be known as the Cadboll Brooch.

17/97 Letter to Joseph Anderson from R B MacLeod of Invergordon Castle, Ross-shire, 27 September 1870. Refers to missing items.

17/98 Letter to David Laing from J Walter H Lyham of 46 Portsdown Road, London,10 March 1865. Thanks Laing for his letter acknowledging ‘the various trifles’ sent for the museum.

17/99 Letter to John A Smith from D R Rankin of Carluke, 3 October 1869. Includes list of objects and drawings submitted to the Society from Hyndshaw.

17/100 Letter from David Hossack, 7 Hill Square, Edinburgh, 11 May 1870, sending mason’s chisel and lock from Cardinal Beaton’s House.

17/101 Letter from Jas Wingate, Linnhouse, Hamilton, 11 July 1870, concerning coin of Alexander III and possible medieval mint at

Falkirk or Falkland.

17/102 Letter to David Laing from A R Carson 82 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, 21 June 1841. Concerning Latin inscription on stone exhibited in the Society’s museum.

17/103 Letter to Sir Henry Jardine from Pat Neill, Canonmills, 23 February 1843. Miss Buchan has shown him a box containing ‘200 or 300 coins’ collected by her late brother. She is willing to give them to the Soiety and he suggest that a catalogue should first be drawn up.

17/104 Letter to the Hon Primrose, Board of Manufactures, from Maclachlan & Rodgers of Castle Street, Edinburgh, 3 October 1877, concerning artefacts bequeathed by James Drummond.

17/105 Letter to the Secretary of the Society from George Waterston & Sons of Hanover Street, Edinburgh, 3 March 1880, concerning Drummond drawings.

17/106 Six letters dated 1887 concerning the discovery of the Banchory brooch, an electrotype replica of which was acquired in 1888 (PSAS 10, 270).

17/107 Letter to Sir Herbert from Wellwood Maxwell of Kirkennan, Dalbeattie, 14 January 1881, enclosing sketch of spectacles and spectacle case published by the Anastatic Drawing Society.

17/108 Letter to the Council of the Society from H Laing, 26 January 1876, reporting upon the collection of casts of seals known as ‘General Hutton’s Collection’.

17/109 Letter to the Secretary from the Superintendent of the School of Industrial Arts in Madras, 27 November 1868, concerning photographs of stone carvings in Indian temples.

17/110 Copy of Deed of Trust by Lieut Col the Hon Arthur Cecil Murray regarding the Harden spurs and bugle horn, 1930.

17/111 Letter to John Stuart from Philip ?Hellard, University of Edinburgh, 1 February 1865. The University Senate has agreed to deposit four Roman altars in the Society museum on the same terms as the Torrie Collection of pictures in the National Gallery. Provides extract of those conditions.

17/112 Letter from Alexander McCallum of Bank Street, Girvan, 19 December 1851, giving provenance details for the Trochrigg mould.

17/113 List of household items provided by Robert Reid, Allance Knowe, Markinch, 25 September 1862, including clothes, cups and egg cups.

17/114 Letter to James Dalgarns from Charles Simpson of Fochaber, 30 March 1976, concerning stone axes in his possession.

17/115 Note from Archibald Douglas of Greenhill, Hownam, Kelso, concerning provenance of bronzes from the Cheviot Hills.

17/116 Letter to Dr Duns from Geo. G Smith of Denan Cottage, Brechin, 27 September 1880, concerning some Egyptian flints and a piece of wood from the Petrified Forest near Cairo.

17/117 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Jos. Townley of Mid Torrs, Dunragit (undated). He has sent some flint and stone implements but hesitates to send the urn which is fragile.

17/118 Letters from G F Laurence of Wandsworth, London, relating to Danish pottery (PSAS 23 (1888-89), 271): 4 January 1889, enclosing pencil sketches of five Danish urns. 15 January 1889, accepting £4 for the pottery.

17/119 Correspondence between Dickie & Paul, Solicitors, of Whithall Chambers, Dundee, and Joseph Anderson in 1889, concerning the museum belonging to the late John Sturrock of Oakbank, Monikie, purchased by the Society (PSAS 24 (1889-90), 6-15): 14 January From Dickie & Paul, Sturrock wished the Society to have the first offer for the museum at £2000. 18 January D & P send catalogue of Sturrock Museum. 22 January D & P as requested have arranged for Anderson to inspect the Collection. 25 January D & P in reply to telegram from Anderson asking whether the necklace is included in the Collection. Undated draft letter from Anderson declining offer. 28 January D & P acknowledge Society’s decision and ask for the return of the catalogue. 8 March D & P enquire what the Society might be willing to pay for the Collection including the necklace. 16 March Draft reply from Anderson offering £600 for the whole Collection or £500 for the Scottish part of it, in both cases including the necklace.

17/120 Letter from Geo H M Thoms of 13 Charlotte Square, 31 January 1889, offering for sale for £5 on behalf of Mrs George Petrie of Kirkwall a letter from Mary Queen of Scots to Torquil Macleod of Lewis (PSAS 23 (1888-89), 273).

17/121 Letters from Arthur Jeddarson of Copenhagen, 7 March & 28 November 1889, concerning Society’s purchase of his collection of flint and bronze items (PSAS 23 (1888-89), 271).

17/122 Letter to Joseph Anderson from R Glegg of Exchequer, Edinburgh, 31 March 1889, concerning items sent from Stirling in fragile condition (note added in pencil identifying as Birkhill Urn and flint knife, stone hammers and piece of bone).

17/123 Letter from Archibald MacAulay of Alleray, North Usit, 9 April 1889, concerning items found near an old building in a sand dune, with a statement from a 102 year-old at Baleshare.

17/124 List of stone implements from Wigtownshire bought by G Wilson, 6 April 1889.

17/125 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Alex Laing, 10 June 1889, who has sent by train the bronze sword that he was instructed by telegram to purchase for the Society for £4, from the River Tay at Mugdrum (PSAS 24 (1889-90), 16). Also letter of 12 June confirming receipt of postal order for £4, and offering paper on finds from the River Tay.

17/126 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Thos. Stevenson of Tannadice, Forfar, 29 May 1889, concerning purchase of collection of flints (PSAS 23 (1888-89), 21).

17/127 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Donald Mac Lean of Baleshare, Lochmaddy, N Uist, 14 June 1889, accompanying bone pin found near old building on foreshore.

17/128 Two Memoranda to Joseph Anderson from James Munro, Sculptor, of Pittentrail, Rogart, 15 & 19 July 1889, concerning stone implement which he offers for sale.

17/129 Letter to Joseph Anderson from J Christie of Kenmore, 20 July 1889, concerning stoxe about which Lord Breadalbane had written to Anderson.

17/130 List of flint and stone implements etc collected by Rev J MacEwan of Dyke, Elginshire, July 1889.

17/131 Letter from F W McKee of Pittsburgh, 9 October 1889, accompanying donation of American dollar bill with portrait of Martha Washington (PSAS 24 (1889-90), 380).

17/132 Correspondence concerning bronze ‘urn handle’: 10 October 1889 letter from Mrs McGuffog to M W L Harper requesting return of item. 10 October 1889 Letter from Harper to Sir Herbert Maxwell

requesting same. 21 October 1889 letter from Harper to Maxwell explaining need to return handle. 25 October 1889 letter from Maxwell to Joseph Anderson apologising for mistake. Note added to effect that item was purchased on 16 November 1889.

17/133 Three letters to Joseph Anderson from C K Gibbons of Ingleside, St Georges Hill, Weybridge, 13 & 19 December 1889, and 31 December 1889 from Surbiton, offering for purchase implements of West Indian origin collected by the late Sir Thomas Graham Briggs (PSAS 24 (1889-90), 448-9).

17/134 Letter to Joseph Anderson from R Stewart of St John Street, Perth, 25 November 1889, concerning stone axe.

17/135 Lists of objects donated by J T Irvine, both in Joseph Anderson’s hand, one annotated in red by Irvine with provenances (PSAS 32 (1897-8), 131).

17/136 Note about two flags of the First Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Engineers, on headed notepaper from 22 Garscube Terrace, Murrayfield, Edinburgh. PSAS 32 (1897-8), 179.

17/137 Letter from John McLean of Bruichladdich, Islay, 25 January 1898. Has sent crusie and offers to acquire a heckle (PSAS 32 (1897-8), 131).

17/138 Letter to Joseph Anderson from George Robertson, Main Line Gates, Coupar Angus, 31 January 1898, concerning stone lamp and socket stone (PSAS 32 (1897-8), 239).

17/139 Three letters from John Gounie, Kintessack, 6 January and 24 February 1898 and 10 May 1900, concerning arrowheads and other flint implements, and six further letters concerning receipt of payments 30 March and 28 April 1898, 18 January & 8 February 1900, 8 November 1901, 30 January 1902.

17/140 Letter to Joseph Anderson from W D Webster, Oxford House, Bicester, Oxon, 25 February 1898, concerning Palaeolithic flint artefacts from Somaliland (PSAS 32 (1897-8), 241).

17/141 Letter and list from Malcolm Mackenzie Charleson, 61 Cornhill Terrace, Leith, 17 March 1898, concerning artefacts that he has loaned for exhibition including stone axe from Tiree, steatite whorl with runic inscription.

17/142 Letter from James Simpson of the Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh, 27 May 1898, on behalf of Sir William, returning four skulls loaned to Sir William.

17/143 Letter to George Black from John Christie, Manchester, 10

July 1898, with transcript of letter by General George Monk 1654, requesting help in checking this against the original.

17/144 Letter to Fred Coles from William Cowie & Sons concerning donation of three urns from Juniper Green, Edinburgh (PSAS 33 (1898-9), 274, 354-8).

17/145 Letter from T Scott, Earlston, 12 November 1898, concerning hammerstones and quern.

17/146 Letter to Joseph Anderson from D M Graham, Dollar, 16 February 1905, concerning drain tile from near Kincardine Castle.

17/147 Letter from D Hay Barclay, 10 Pilmuir Links, St Andrews, undated, concerning stone implements from Buenos Aires.

17/148 Two letters from Charles Seiden, Eyot Gardens, Hammersmith, London, 30 December 1889 & 6 January 1890, offering part of Carlyle collection of stone implements for sale.

17/149 List of stone implements from G F Laurence, 55 High Street, Wandsworth, London. Dated in pencil 1890.

17/150 Two letters and a list from S Henry Jammes of Realmont, Tarn, France, 31 January & 18 February 1890, one concerning artefacts from Cambodia.

17/151 Letter to Joseph Anderson from John Buchanan, Kirkwall, 15 April 1890. He is in receipt of the Society’s postal order for 2/- for stone implement from Orphir, and forgot to say that Mr Cursiter considered it to be the best specimen that he had ever seen.

17/152 Two letters to Joseph Anderson from W H P Driver, Abbotsmill, Cults, July 1890, concerning artefacts from India.

17/153 List of Maori weapons & implements, October 1887, presented through W F Skene, June 1890.

17/154 Letter and list of artefacts from Burnswark from A Mackie, Burnswark, 29 August 1890.

17/155 Three letters to Joseph Anderson and one to Lord Archibald Campbell from G R Harding, Charing Cross Road, London, 25 August, 3 September & 9 September 1890, concerning pair of pistols 1614, formerly in the family of the Duke of Montrose.

17/156 Letter to Joseph Anderson from J Walter Hygin, Benvoulin, Oban, 12 September 1890, concerning human bones, shells, and artefacts that he has forwarded to the Museum.

17/157 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Edward Lovett, Croydon, 10 November 1890, concerning methof of making fire with bow

drill still in use in Switzerland, with sketch of man making fire.

17/158 Notes on a pocket sundial from Rev J A Hugh Campell.

17/159 Letter to Joseph Anderson from E Miller, Aberdour, Fife, 22 December 1890, concerning bureau.

17/160 Letter from James Brown, Maxwell town nr Dumfries, 22 November 1890, concerning pottery.

17/161 Two letters from A Beckett, Stoneykirk, 31 May 1900 & 20 May 1901, concerning sale of flints.

17/162 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Thos Stevenson, Tannadice Parish Council, 28 May 1900, concerning flints from Little Ferry.

17/163 Note on postcard to Joseph Anderson from ‘F’, Dores, 5 July 1900, concerning key to ancient chapel.

17/164 Letter to Joseph Anderson from General F Traill Burroughs of Trumland, Rousay, Orkney, 16 December 1901. He has sent a donation of a stone axe from Wasbuster, and informs Anderson of the crannog in the Loch of Wasbuster.

17/165 Letter from James Ritchie, The Schoolhouse, Port Elphinstone, Inverurie, 14 September. He has been photographing sculptured stones in his area and cannot find the Percylow stone, asks if it has been moved to Edinburgh.

17/166 Letter to Joseph Anderson from J Bryce, 29 Drummond Street, Edinburgh, 17 October 1901, requesting that the case of gun lock items presented by T D Bryce be placed on display.

17/167 Letter to James Maclehose from D Thom, 8 October 1901, concerning provenance of sword exhibited in the Glasgow Exhibition from near Drumcoltran Tower.

17/168 List compiled by Robert Munro, 48 Manor Place, Edinburgh, and sent to Joseph Anderson, April 1901, wroked objects from midden near Elie.

17/169 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Robertson Fother, Tayview House, Perth, 16 May 1901, concerning barber-surgeon’s bleeding dish.

17/170 Letter to W Eagle Clark, Museum of Science & Art, from Andrew L?, 26 High Street, Portobello, 3 April 1901, concerning donation of weapons found in his cellar.

17/171 Letter from Stewart Archibald, Dalarossie Schoolhouse, Tomatin, 18 December 1900, offering a wooden fork or ‘graip’ found in the roof of a nearby cottage (with sketch of implement).

17/172 Letter from R Elliott Lockhart, The Hewke nr Lockerbie, 28 February 1902, offering to leave on loan to the Museum the six stones axes recently exhibited.

17/173 Letter from William Forbes, West Neuk, Lossiemouth, 24 March 1904, concerning provenance of several artefacts from NE Scotland.

17/174 Letter from C Forbes, West Neuk, Lossiemouth, 6 April 1904, writing on behalf of his father, W Forbes (see 17/173). More information on provenances of stone hammer and balls. Also an axe used latterly as a charm.

17/175 Three notes from Alex Beckett, Law Mye, Stoneykirk, Stranraer, 27 March 1902, 29 June & 9 July 1903, concerning boxes of flints sent to the Museum.

17/176 Two letters from David Randall-MacIver, Worcester College, Oxford, 19 July & 3 August (no year) concerning donated objects from his excavations at El-Amrah in Upper Egypt in 1901.

17/177 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Thos Stevenson, Tannadyce, 28 April 1902, concerning box of flints from area.

17/178 Note from John Bruce, West Nile Street, Glasgow, undated but with 1901 papers, concerning urn from Strathblane.

17/179 Letter to Joseph Anderson from John H Browne, The Schoolhouse, Longformacus, 19 February 1901, concerning the Seton Medal.

17/180 Letter to Mr Findlay from A Drysdale, Westerwood, 24 December 1903, to accompany stone.

17/181 Letter from J H Reith, Schloss Rothberg, Rougemont, Switzerland, 27 October 1903, with pencil rubbing of small carved wooden tablet of a convict in the Beumarcel Jail.

17/182 Small envelope labeled Amber Bead found by J B Mears in garden of Woodburn House, Canaan Lane, and calling card from Rev James Primrose, his uncle.

17/183 Note to Joseph Anderson from Annie Gorrie, Perth, 18 December 1907, to accompany stone axe from Birsay, Orkney, offered to the Museum for purchase (annotated ‘Purchased’).

17/184 Two notes to Joseph Anderson from Richard Morrison, Dealer in Antique & Art Objects, Dundee, 26 & 28 September 1907, offering for sale a stone axe from Shetland and a powder tester by Innes of Edinburgh.

17/185 Letter from S G Percival, Clifton, 7 February 1907, concerning lead objects from the Mendips.

17/186 Note from H Somerset, Dunibert House, Balfron, 1 June 1907, concerning pottery sherds from house site at Port of Menteith.

17/187 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Miss E J Mitchell, Cherybank, Perth, 7 August 1907, offering hammerstone for sale from Pitcairngreen, Perthshire.

17/188 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Peter Mackenzie Farmer, Tormore Shiskin, Arran, to accompany mallet & three flint implements. Annotated by Fred Coles as presented to the Museum.

17/189 Note of folio of drawings of European carved stones presented to the Society by Sir Henry Dryden, 15 December 1891, sent from Norwich by rail.

17/190 Two letters and list of Egyptian antiquities presented by Rev Greville J Chester, Bury Street, London, 25 and 26 August 1891.

17/191 Two letters from Robert Paisley, East Manse, Brechin, 18 & 24 February 1891, concerning purchase of brooches and coins from Brechin.

17/192 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Edward Lovett, Croydon, 22 June 1891, concerning objects from Holland.

17/193 Two letters to Joseph Anderson from ?? of Royal Circus, Edinburgh, & Monybuie, Dlbeattie, 29 July & 3 August 1891, concerning part of a copper ?? from peat moss at Monybuie, Balmaclellan.

17/194 Letter from Phoebe Blyth, 3 South Mansion Ho Brae, 25 August 1891, concerning spinning wheel.

17/195 Letter 1 September 1891 concerning bronze axe from Tarbet donated by Mr Maclean, Brechlarach, Tarbet.

17/196 Letter to Joseph Anderson from W J Watt, Skaill House by Stromness, Orkney, 5 October 1891, concerning fragment of Celtic metalwork.

17/197 Letter from A ?Forman Patrick, Woodside, Beith, 12 September 1891, concerning yet from Tower of Dunlop, Ayrshire, presented by W Dalrymple Hay of Dunlop.

17/198 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Thomas Burns, St Margaret’s Road, 13 October 1891, concerning ‘Memorial of the Parish Church of Montrose’ by J S Low.

17/199 Letter and calling card from Spencer George Percival,

Henbury, Bristol, 12 December 1891, concerning clay spindle whorl found in house nr St Andrews.

17/200 Six letters to Joseph Anderson concerning the bronze plaque from the Laws of Monifieth found in 1796.

1. Letter from J C Roger, The Crouchers, Aldborough Thatch, Ilford, Essex, 29 January 1880, Refers to enclosed drawing (mentioned as donation in PSAS 15, 107), which he found among his late father’s papers.

2. 2. Letter from James Keish, 31 January 1880, in reply to Anderson’s enquiry about the plaque, of which he has no knowledge.

3. Letter from J C Roger, The Crouchers, 1 February 1880, agreeing that the Society may retain the drawing and that he would write a note about it. The plaque was in the possession of Sir Alexander Ramsay Irvine of Balmain, of whom Roger’s grandfather was tenant at the Laws. He thinks that the sketch was drawn in 1796.

4. Letter from James Keish, The Laws, Dundees, 5 February 1880. The father of J C Roger wrote the entry for the Statistical Account in 1792 but did not mention the plaque.

5. Letter from J C Roger, 6 February 1880, on the subject of the decoration on the plaque.

6. Letter from J C Roger, The Crouchers, 21 February 1880, note to accompany his account of the plaque (published in PSAS 14, 268-74).

17/201 Five letters concerning the jet necklace from Balcalk, Tealing, Forfarshire (PSAS 14, 260-2).

1. Letter to John Mitchell from Robert Strathern, 12 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 10 May 1880, on behalf of Lord Dunglass, asking Anderson to retain the necklace for the moment.

2. Copy of letter from Mitchell to Strathern, 12 May 1880, confirming that the necklace will remain in Edinburgh ‘for some time’.

3. Letter from Mitchell, probably to Joseph Anderson, 12 May 1880, with which letters 1 & “ were enclosed. ‘I think you should not give it up to any one without the authority of the Council’. He saw Sturrock who agreed that any battle over the necklace ‘will be best fought with the necklace in our hands’.

4. Letter from John Sturrock to Joseph Anderson, Dundee, 8 December 1881, requesting return of items on loan to the Society’s museum.

5. Letter to Anderson from Skene, Edwards & Bihar, 21 Hill Street, Edinburgh, 23 December 1881, to the effect that the Society should return the necklace to Sturrock and steer clear of negotiations between the latter and Lord Dunglass.

17/202 Articles and Conditions concerning the sale in Kirkwall of George Petrie’s museum on Tuesday 1 May 1877, upset price £20.. Offer of £30.10s accepted from James Mainland McBeath, Merchant, Kirkwall.

17/203 Two sheets of rough pencil sketches of decorated composite bone comb and comb case, whetstone, spearhead etc. Unidentified.

17/204 Note by James J Richardson, 7 Millerfield Place, 19 October 1885, concerning coins found on the north side of Loch Earn. In envelope labeled ‘Give to Mr Sim for his Notices of Coins found in Scotland’.

17/205 Correspondence between RBA Macleod of Cadboll, Invergordon Castle, Ross-shire, and J R Findlay concerning the purchase of the Cadboll brooches, 1888.

1. Copy of Findlay’s letter confirming that the Council of the Society had agreed the purchase price of £200.

2. Letter from Macleod explaining that he cannot bear to part with them immediately and asking if he may have the ‘models’ now on display in their stead.

3. Copy of letter from Findlay, 11 February, agreeing that Macleod may have the models.

4. Letter from Macleod, 20 March, ‘with a heavy heart I sent off the Brooches by Parcel Post today’.

5. Copy of letter from Findlay, 24 March, assuring Macleod that the brooches have arrived safely and that the money and the models will be sent to him without delay.

6. Letter from David Douglas, Publisher, Castle Street, Edinburgh, 29 December 1887, confirming that Mr Macleod has agreed to sell the brooches for £200.

17/206 Six letters addressed to Dr Burgess from W F Sinclair, both of the Archaeological Survey of India, accompanying donation of Indian flint implements.

17/207 Part of letter from Cathel Kerr [no date or address] concerning heelplate from Borve Castle and a pin like ‘a crochet needle’ from a hut circle at Farr.

17/208 Three items concerning bull carving from Burghead (PSAS 25, 68): Note titled ‘Extract of letter (dated Hong Kong, 29 April 1890) from Miss Anderson to Rev George Gordon, Braebirnie, Elgin’, concerning stone carving of bull in the family garden and asking him to find out what price the Society might pay for it. Letter to Joseph Anderson from Hugh Fraser, Church Street, Inverness, 24 November 1890, informing him that the stone will be sent by train the next day.

Letter to Joseph Anderson from Hugh Fraser acknowledging Anderson’s letter of receipt for the stone, 18 December 1890.

17/209 Pencil sketch of inverted cinerary urn ‘found on Carskerdo last week’, 27 Nov 1891.

17/210 Letter to Joseph Anderson from ?Anicol Simpson, Arbroath Herald, Arbroath, 21 Jan 1892, concerning donation of a cup stone.

17/211 Letter from John Miller, Elmwood, Moffat, 15 December 1892, seeking letters given to the Royal Infirmary and said to have been handed on to the Society.

17/212 Postcard to the Secretary from S G Percival, Henbury, Bristol, 3 Jan 1892, concerning geology of spindle whorl from Fife.

17/213 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Allan Macnaughton, Achabuie, Taynuilt, 20 Jan 1892, concerning whetstone from Inverliver, Taynuilt.

17/214 Five letters to David Christison from the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen and Glasgow and the College of Physicians, February and March 1892, concerning the loan of maces.

17/215 Letter to Joseph Anderson from George Gordon, The Manse, Birnie, 7 September 1883, concerning coracle in Elgin Museum.

17/216 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Charles Gurney, Banbury, Oxon, 10 Dec 1890, offering for sale a wooden carving of the Royal Arms of James I.

17/217 Letter to Joseph Anderson from H K MacLeod, Ellon Parsonage, Aberdeenshire, 10 Dec 1890, requesting information about Bothwell’s death mask.

17/218 Letter to Joseph Anderson from E Miller, Aberdour, Fife, concerning donation of old desk. Note dated 4 December 1890 (in different hand) describing mahogany bureau of c1750.

17/219 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Alex Laing, Newburgh on Tay, 27 October 1890, concerning donation of six-sided stone from near Mugdrum House, a perforated whorl from Kirkcudbright and a hammerstone from Perthshire.

17/220 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Herbert Maxwell on Treasury notepaper, 1 Dec 1890, concerning gold armlet from a cairn in Wigtownshire (PSAS 25, 417).

17/221 Letter to Joseph Anderson from George Muirhead, Mains of Haddo, Aberdeen, 5 Jan 1891, concerning the hoard of bronze ornaments from Braes of Gight (PSAS 25, 135-8).

17/222 Letter to Joseph Anderson from ??, Arbroath, 7 January 1891, offering Peruvian mummy from Arbroath Museum. Annotated to effect that offer declined.

17/223 Letter to Joseph Anderson from J B Mackenzie, The Manse, Kenmore, Aberfeldy, 18 Sept 1879, concerning the Fortingall Bell.

17/224 Letter from W Cramond, 14 Feb 1891, requesting information about coin which he has rubbed on to letter. Annotated ‘Saloninus son of Gallienus AD 255 not common, Cullen’.

17/225 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Robert de Brus Trotter, Tayview, Perth, 6 March 1891, concerning donation of fringe-weaving machine from Cowdenbeath (PSAS 25, 349).

17/226 Three letters on the subject of a clay ‘drinking cup’ found in peat near Campbeltown: Letter to Sir Arthur Mitchell from William Gibson, Kirkland, Campbeltown, Argyll, 8 April 1891, enclosing sketch of cup. Covering letter from Mitchell sending Gibson’s letter on to Anderson, 12 April 1891. Letter to Joseph Anderson from William Gibson, Kirkland, Campbeltown, Argyll, 3 May 1891, to the effect tht the local committee will not allow the cup to go to Edinburgh.

17/227 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Thos Stevenson, Tannadyce, 4 May 1891, concerning box of stone implement from area sent by train for purchase.

17/228 Letter to Sir Arthur Mitchell from J A Stewart, Albyn Terrace, Aberdeen, 13 April 1891, concerning Caithness sone.

17/229 Note to Anderson, undated, concerning dispersal of antiquities from Penicuik House.

17/230 Letter to Anderson from James Paterson, Brawland by Rhynie, 25 March 1891, concerning discovery of bog butter in moss near Lumsden Village Auchendoir. Annotated by JA to the effect that wrote back and no reply.

17/231 Two letters to Anderson from Robert Paisley, East Manse, Brechin, concerning five silver medieval brooches found with coins of Edward I, found in Brechin c 1889. (PSAS 25, 417).

17/232 Letter to the Council of SAS from Macknight Crawfurd, Lauriston Castle, 26 August 1891, requesting permission to

have a replica made of the Hunterston brooch which his sister, Mrs Hunter, sold to the Society. Letter from Mrs Hunter Weston’s husband on the same subject and expressing the family’s resentment that the brooch has not remained in their possession.

17/233 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Malcolm McNeill, Colonsay House, by Greenock, 31 July 1891, concerning Viking burial in Oronsay.

17/234 Two letters to Joseph Anderson from R W Cochran Patrick, Scottish Office, Whitehall & Woodside, Beith, 6 July & 24 Oct 1891, requesting a replica of the Hunterston brooch.

17/235 Letter to J R Findlay from N R Thoin, Barremman, Rosneath, 14 March 1888, in reply to letter about an ‘old cross’: ‘I am afraid that the Islanders would not like to part with their old relic’.

17/236 Letter to Joseph Anderson from William Forsyth, Wolverhampton, from the Manse of Abernethy, 29 July 1891, concerning the use of the word ‘flourish’ in connection with steels for fire-making. Asks whether his note on the Knocking Stone was given.

17/237 Letter to the Marquis of Bute from Jas Townley, West Camphill St, Glasgow, 7 June 1891, offering for sale an urn from a cist in Jedburgh with a description of its provenance.

17/238 Two letters to Anderson from J Scott, The Glebe, Selkirk, 11 August & 2 Sept 1891, concerning stone anvil with drawing.

17/239 Letter from James Cursiter, Kirkwall, 9 August 1880, about a stone with a footprint found in St Andrews parish [lost stone from Toab]. Also mentions a steatite urn from Shetland in his collection.

17/240 Three letters to David Christison and Joseph Anderson from George Wilson, Aberdeen, 21 August, 3 Oct &13 Oct 1891, acting for Mrs John Rae and requesting Anderson’s help in valuing her late husband’s collection of Aberdeenshire antiquities. Also letter from Sir Arthur Mitchell to Anderson about Rae’s death.

17/241 Note to Joseph Anderson from W Talbot Ready, Rathbone Place, London, 10 August 1892, warning him of parcel in the post with bronze tripod and ‘metal boss with pin attached’, which he had just bought.

17/242 Letter from John Elliot Sherarer, King Street, Stirling, [undated but amongst 1891 letters to Anderson], concerning Latin

inscription at Stirling.

17/243 Letter to Anderson from Hugh W Young, Kincorth, Forres, 30 March 1891, concerning his paper on the Burghead fort.

17/244 Letter to Anderson from A Hutcheson, Herschel House, Broughty Ferry, 25 Feb 1892, congratulating him on the Forfar discovery and asking after Dr Laing’s paper on the Gowrie Conspiracy.

17/245 List of exhibits at meeting of the Society, 15 March 1887, by S M MacLeod, and sketch of rock art on Pitcairn Island 1848.

17/246 Lists of artefacts purchased from George Wilson, Glenluce, in 1886.

17/247 Letter to Joseph Anderson from J T Irvine, 167 Cromwell Road, Peterborough, 9 March 1889, donating the Weston bronze spoons to the Museum (on loan since 1870, see 17/40). Also sends drawings of ‘stone coffins’ at Peterborough Cathedral and a sketch of a cornice made by another artist.

17/248 Letter to Joseph Anderson from T S Muir’s executors accompanying rubbings of carved stones made by Muir (PSAS 23, 238-9).

17/249 Letter to Joseph Anderson from W G T Watt, Skaill House, by Stromness, 2 July 1888, presenting finds from Viking grave at Skaill Bay (PSAS 22,283-5).

17/250 Two letters to Anderson from Margaret Young (Mrs Hugh W Young), Athole House, Bridge of Allan, 14 June 1888, concerning the two Crieff mounts (PSAS 23, 122-3). 14 June 1888: there were other bronze ‘mountings’ and a brooch found at the same time but these are lost. 17 June 1888: donates the mounts to the Museum.

17/251 Letter to Joseph Anderson from George Willison, Island of Luing, 15 July 1890, sending cross-head from Eilean-na-Naoimh (PSAS 25, 66).

17/252 Letter to Joseph Anderson from J W Cursiter, Kirkwall, 12 Jan 1889, accompanying sample of cloth found in cist at Greenigoe, Orphir, in previous December, ‘together with the 2 beads I told you of’, one of amber and one possibly ‘vitreous paste’, which he sketched.

17/253 Letter to Joseph Anderson from George Muirhead, Estate Office, Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, 26 Oct 1891, concerning arrowheads belonging to Mr Henderson, Fyvie.

17/254 Letter to Professor Duns from H Edzell Hunt, Kensington,

London, 13 October, concerning stone pestle found during railway construction in Brazil.

17/255 Two untitled photographs of a large perforated stone implement.

17/256 Ink drawing of ‘Design on slab of wood found at Lake Dwelling near ??’

17/257 Printed note on ‘The Terny Brae, Lochlundie, Slains’, with annotation about stone ‘celt’.

17/258 Letter to Joseph Anderson from Hew Morrison, Brechin, 13 May 1887, to the effect that he has sent a parcel with the stem of a glass found at the Earl of Crawford’s Brechin residence. .

17/259 Note from R Trotter, Perth, about bronze pin found in Perth.

17/260 Correspondence concerning inscribed charm found at Lamington, with sketch, Nov 1890 to March 1891.

17/261 Part of letter from Agnes Fraser, concerning donation of items belonging to Prince Charles Edward, Mary Queen of Scots, James II.

17/262 Letter from N ?Brickmand, Roadhill Vicarage, Bath, October 1890, concerning photos of his restorations of various antiquities.

17/263 Three letters concerning the Taynuilt Cross, May 1888 to 15 June 1889.

17/264 Note of receipt of the sword belt belonging to the royal regalia from the Exchequer, Edinburgh, 27 May 1893.

17/265 Two letters concerning donation of bronze sword from Gladsmuir, East Lothian, and other objects, 1825 and 1889.

17/266 Letter to Mr Curle from George Leith-Buchanan, New Club, Edinburgh, 25 Feb 1896, concerning altar from Newstead.

17/267 Three letters from Charles Stewart and one from J B Mackenzie, 2-13 November 1879, concerning St Conon’s Bell, Perthshire.

17/268 Letter from David Christison to Robert Munro, 15 October 1891, concerning flints from Luce Bay.

17/269 Letter to