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Boswell Collection, 1428-1936, 1700-1795

Title: Boswell Collection 1428-1936 1700-1795

The Boswell Collection contains the correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of author James Boswell; estate records, letters, personal and professional papers, and other materials documenting the lives and careers of ten generations of Boswells and their possession of the barony of Auchinleck; and correspondence relating to the political career of Alexander Bruce, Earl of Kincardine.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 196; Linear Feet: 102.50

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Boswell collection supplement, [ca. 1750-1900]

Title: Boswell collection supplement [ca. 1750-1900]

The collection consists mainly of letters and writings by or pertaining to various members of the Boswell of Auchinleck family. Series III includes seventeen journals of weather conditions and work assignments on the Auchinleck estate.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 4; Linear Feet: 2.25

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Boswell, James, 1806-1857,. Autograph letter signed from James Boswell, Edinburgh, to Edward DuBois [manuscript], ca. 1836.

Title: Autograph letter signed from James Boswell, Edinburgh, to Edward DuBois [manuscript], ca. 1836.

Letter to DuBois, secretary and treasurer to the Metropolitan Commissioners of lunacy, concerning the custody of Miss Euphemia Boswell.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Boswell collection : addition, 1634-1960, 1822-1857

Title: Boswell collection : addition 1634-1960 1822-1857

The papers primarily document the administration of the debt-burdened estate of Auchinleck after the death of Sir Alexander Boswell in 1822. They include business and legal correspondence; accounts, receipts, valuations and other estate records; the process of the settlement of Sir Alexander Boswell's heritable estate; and other financial and personal papers. The papers also contain material pertaining to the related family of Douglas of Garallan, including land records, financial papers, and business correspondence. In addition, there are letters by Charles Douglas, a planter in Jamaica, concerning many aspects of his life and career, such as his ownership of slaves and opinions about slavery, immigrant life in Jamaica, and the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on the Caribbean. The letters of Patrick Charles Douglas Douglas Boswell describe his efforts to establish himself as a tea planter in India in the early 1880s.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 30 + 2 broadside; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, broadside; Linear Feet: 14.0

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Vanhorn, John. John Vanhorn deed, 1852.

Title: John Vanhorn deed, 1852.

Deed from sellers James Boswell and John B. Penn to buyer John Vanhorn for land in Camden, N.J.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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