- MS 467/4/3
- Sub-series
- 1886-2001
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Records of the Dundee Stage - Frank Boyd (1886)
History of the Dundee Theatre - Alec Robertson (1949)
The King's, God's and Commoners - Martin Horan (2001).
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Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of Laskie Theatre Collection
Part of University Photographs
University of Dundee
Board of Management Minutes (Angus)
Part of Arbroath Infirmary
Arbroath Infirmary
Ward Controlled Drugs Record Books.
Part of Arbroath Infirmary
Arbroath Infirmary
Part of Arbroath Infirmary
Arbroath Infirmary
Part of Arbroath Infirmary
Opening of Wellcome Trust Biocentre
Part of University Photographs
Part of Arbroath Infirmary
National Hospital Service Reserve
Part of Arbroath Infirmary
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Correspondence: 1845. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Correspondents and contents include:
Thomas Marsden, Salford (engineering and machinery matters; spindles; heckling machine); James Carmichael, Amiens (Arrival at Folkestone – noting earlier daylight than in Dundee; his arrival in France and setting up of the factory at Ailly-sur-Somme, notes his difficulties with language, mentions impressions of France and surveying of Paris Boulogne Railway; has got lad who speaks both English and French to help him and describes early work in setting up and planning mill; includes account of the employment of Dundee workers there; Visit to Paris, describes his discussions about planning of buildings at Amiens, especially his dwelling house; describes his progress; report to Baxter Brothers on progress to factory; mentions payment matters relating to A. B. Brown and W. Bates); Robert Baxter*, Rue de Paris Lille (Alludes to request his wife made to PC which PC had declined, describes his operations and requests advice on spinning jute; asks for further advice, noting he has no access to whale oil);William Martin [?], North England Insurance Office, Dundee, (Payment for fighting fire at Cowgate Port**); William Nairne, Milnhaugh (Discusses spinning machine; Thanks PC for apples, notes ‚daft days‘ have hindered his progress and discusses machinery; mechanical designs; enquires about PC’s health and discusses engineering matters; recomends George Bruce to PC; Covering letter for Duncan Forbes and request that PC order shuttle pins); Alex Balfour, Leven (Request for a reference from PC for David Brown who has applied to be manager of his mill); James Combe, Leeds (new loom - includes drawing; mill machinery with diagrams); William Stratton, Arbroath (recommending William Hutchison for post of foreman hackler); Samuel S. Faulkner (printed letter setting out his improvements on cotton cards); Alexander McKenzie, Kirkland (application for the post of foreman hackler); David Ballingall (application for the post of foreman hackler); John Christie, Dysart (response to application being rejected and suspicion ‘you have been prejudiced against me’); MacLea & Marsh, Leeds (order of couplings); Duncan Forbes, Luncarty ( Provides sample of writing and discusses Calender); William Martin (insurance matters); D. Cruickshank, Leeds, (regarding a post teaching English in Montrose).
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* Likely the son of William T Baxter, the Dundee radical whom Mary Godwin resided with, and therefore second cousin to Sir David Baxter
** According to Dundee, Perth and Cupar Advertiser 31 January 1845 a fire engine party of workmen from Baxter Bros led by Mr Carmichael, successfully fought a fire at ‘Mr William Culross’s heckle-house at the Cowgate Port.’
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Correspondence: 1846-1847. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, general and family affairs. Correspondents and contents include:
John Smith, Seagate (letter of introduction for David Boyack); William Nairne, Milnhaugh (his railway engines and a newspaper attack on him);
William Anderson, India Street, Montrose, (Position for Hackle maker in France); James Spence, Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth (Wishes PC happy New Year and informs him of his promotion; Submission of drawings and specifications to the naval dockyards by Ward Foundry; Orders and employment of John Carmichael, Discusses life at the dockyard)
William Cruikshanks, Dundee (request for loan);
Shaw, Reid & McLachlan (relates to legal case);
Allan Fordyce, Haubordin, nr Calais (comments, critically, on David Baxter’s paper to the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Dundee against the Ten Hour Bill; refers to competition from cheap labour in Europe with figures for French workers including Fordyce’s version of wage rates in France);
David Greig 166 Rose Street, Edinburgh (Letters relating to death of John Adamson in wreck of the Brechin Castle*, in which Baxter Brothers had an interest, and legal position of his siblings as heirs)
Trunbull & Co , Claverhouse Bleachfield (poor state of yarn); George Whyte, St Rollox Flax Mills, (seeking position for his brother); J Stewart, Blairgowrie Mills (flax dressing prices); David Peter, Salford (Has left Thomas Marsden’s employ following a dispute, but has completed work on machines for PC; reasons for leaving Marsden’s employment and new position with a railway [Buxton Railway?]); Jas. Paterson, Dundee (requesting money for William Nairne);
W. Ransley, Box and Ivory Rule Maker, 20 Stangate, Westminster Bridge, London (measuring instruments);
George Lowry, Belfast (the performance of a competitor’s machine); Thomas Greenwood, Wellington Foundry, Leeds (Machinery matters); James Grandison, (McBride & Co’s claim for a patent predating PCs)
Patent disputes in Britain and France.
D Cruikshank, Greenacres Moor (3rd August, 1847, describes a parliamentary election at Oldham [1847 general election] and subsequent riots);
Troops being sent to Ireland and concern for the situation in ‘high quarters’.
Tests on canvas failing navy test, December 1847.
Jacquard looms.
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*SS Brechin Castle was lost with all hands off Swansea in February 1847. John Adamson was her second mate. See also MS 73/2
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence
Correspondence: 1855. Miscellaneous topics pertaining to engineering and business matters together with current, family and personal affairs. Correspondents and contents include:
James Paterson (items belonging to himself and PC to be removed from Mr Nairne’s mill before the forced sale there of machinery and equipment);
James Martie, Jonsererd, By Gothenberg, Sweden (recommends a young engineer; the effects of the Crimean War on trade, the difficulty in finding supplies of hemp and the excessively cold winter; the building of a railway between Gothenberg and Stockholm; wage rates in Sweden);
James Sinclair, Strone, Stirling (engines for The Scotsman’s printing press; progress on his water engine; ordering canvas for his schooners);
Thomas Greenwood, Wellington Foundry, Leeds, (matters of patent; a move to making machinery for arms manufacturing for the Crimean War, comments on the progress of the War; letter of introduction regarding an artist with a new yarn);
James McCallum, 5 Brighton Place, Glasgow, (request for a reference from PC in support of his application to Cox Bros of Dundee);
James Spence, Portsmouth Dockyard (dissatisfaction with his position and the possibility of applying for the post of manager of the Dundee gas works; The return of the ship Samson from Odessa and Sebastopol with a tame Circassian bear; evidence of and rants against incompetence and mismanagement in the Crimean War; the effects of extremes of temperature on metal; drawing of a Russian marine mine - ‘infernal machine’; programme of a meeting of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts that includes a paper by James Spense on the ‘Rise and Progress of the Royal Steam Navy’; articles in the Artisan; family news: brain fever of Rachel Jane and the making of a photographic portrait of his fast failing son);
Thomas Marsden, Broughton, Manchester (trade reference regarding Thomas Briggs)
James Carmichael, Filature d’Ailly, France (to be made a partner in the French company; major breakdowns at Ailly and at Dens Works losing 12 days work; a proposal to buy a new factory; price of English and Belgian coal; trade and manufacturing, prices of Whitworth Lathes);
D. Cruickshank, 38 Charles St., Westminster, London (death of the Emperor Nicholas; the consequences for a lasting peace; increasing numbers of soldiers in locality bringing serious problems for his school; criticisms of government: ‘what a mess our government have made of the war and themselves … a radical change must take place … the aristocratic element must give place to acknowledged utility come from what class it may’; family matters and illness; letter of complaint on behalf of James Spence and some of his friends;
D. Kinnear, Arbroath (an election in Arbroath lost by W. E. Baxter*; the support given to a worker by Baxter Bros after a disabling accident);
[John] Tannoch D.D., minister of Glamis, (request on behalf of a parishioner for an advance on her allowance due to the severity of the winter, scarcity of work and ill health in the family);
David Baxter, London and Edinburgh (flax, output, competition and tenders; telegraph message);
John Batley, Wellington Foundry, Leeds (patent infringements, machine manufacture for the War, business references, trade; Derby and Coalbrookdale catalogues with price lists for Mrs Baxter);
Charles McKinlay & Co., Leith; invoice for wines and spirits.
William Henderson, Riga (successful establishment of a mill, marriage to his English housekeeper);
James Leslie, 72 George Street Edinburgh (the working costs of engines);
Robert Small (a scheme for the consumption of smoke in Glasgow);
William Ingram, Musselborough (thanking for hospitality in Dundee);
Henry S Boase, Claverhouse (bleaching, dying and experiments in the drying of flax yarn);
E. Young, Annan.
James Laing, Glasgow (request for 20 shillings assistance);
James Low, junior, Monifieth;
John Smith, Dundee (letter on leaving PC’s employ);
Thomas Greenwood, Wellington Foundry, Leeds (dispute between Mr Fairbairn, Mr Mathers and himself and its resolution; production moved to machinery for arms manufacture, little left in flax machinery; marriage of Mr Fairbairn and Mrs Bell (nee Brandling) of Newcastle);
Chris Kerr (advice regarding a purchase);
J. Robertson, Manse of Mains (request for the employment of his step-brother, a mechanic);
John Robertson, 14 Meadow Street, Dundee (subscriptions to the Infirmary);
John Corlass, Preston (gift of towels);
William Leitch, Ladybank (meeting of Heritors and Kirk Session; a request to visit a factory to gain information on the social and moral aspects; social changes, the role of religion, experiments in social welfare and organisation);
Robert Small, Dundee (unable to find a ship under £18 or £20 to load for Abbeville);
Andrew Fullerton, Abbey Mount Works, Edinburgh (suggested remedy for PC’s leg ulcer;
Edward Baxter, Dundee (£5 7s due by PC and Mr Low of Monifieth);
William Nairne, (his bankruptcy, illness and the dishonesty of his son);
Thomas Pratt, Cupar, Fife (recommendation of Mr Smith for employment as a clerk).
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* Later MP for Montrose Burghs. Nephew of Sir David Baxter.