University of Dundee Archives

MS 17/11/13
Item
1856-1916

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

(i) Printed description of 'Improved Multiple Brake for Railway Wagons (Huggins Patent)', unidentified journal. n.d. (ii) Copy of Application I.C. relating to the North British Rubber Co, Ltd, v the Dundee Carriage Building Co, 5 September, 1916. (iii) Inventory and valuation of stock, working plant, etc., of Dundee Carriage Co, 8 September 1916. [With copy]

Correspondence relating to "The Amalgamation Bill" (Amalgamation between the North British Railway Co, and the Glasgow and South Western Railway Co.)

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Correspondents are: C.W. Anderson, solicitors, Montrose, Chapel and Alexander of Arbroath, North British Railway Company, Thornton & Sons, solicitors.

Correspondence relating to the Dundee Extension and Improvement Act

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Correspondence relating to the Morphie estate

MS 17/5/1
Item
1854-1884

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Notes, correspondence and accounts relating to drainage of land on the Morphie estate, 1854-1884, with states of rents payable by the tenants of Morphie and Stone of Morphie, 1876-1883. Includes (19) "Notes as to the Cropping of Mill Lands of Stone of Morphie". 1882. [22]

Correspondence relating to the purchase of land by the Newport Railway Company

MS 17/1/5
Item
1873-1891.

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Correspondents are: Thornton, solicitor, John Waddell, John Walker. Also includes: (1) 14 December 1874, Edinburgh, John Walker to Messrs Pattullo and Thornton, Dundee. Intimates his resignation as a director of the Newport Railway Company. (2) 20 November 1876, Dundee, John Waddell, Railway Contractor, to the Newport Railway Company. Offers to construct the Newport Railway. (3) 14 May 1891, "D.A.S." to "Mr Thornton". Encloses 'Railway folly in Fife', an attack on Caledonian Railway extension into Fife.

Correspondence relating to various legal actions involving railways

MS 17/2/4
Series
1873-1895

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

(1-51) Correspondence relating to various legal actions, involving the North British Railway Company. 1888-1895. Correspondents include C.W. Anderson, Chapel & Anderson, D. Deuchers, James C. Dow, E. Gilbert, Wm. Hay, John Leng, Linklater & Co, Lord Dean of Guild McGrady, "Miller", John Peebles, Wm. Robertson, D. Sinclair, James Watson, [D.C. Wills]. (52) Two accounts sheets of Patullo & Thornton re sums received for Caledonian Insurance Co, premises. 1873. (53) Disposition by Thos. Arkley Esq. to Trustees of N.B.R. 1881. (54) Medical Certificate by Dr Hay in regards Donald MacLennan concerning inability to appear before Lords Committee on Caledonian Railway Bill. 15 July 1891. (55) Proof of George Scott, Provost of Montrose, regarding the amalgamation of the North British Railway Company and the Glasgow and South Western Railway Co. 1890. (56) Copy petition by Mrs Reilly or Donnelly against the North British Railway re death of her husband. 1891.

Correspondence with Sir Charles Cayzer

MS 17/8/3/18
Item
1909-1915

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

(i) Letter from J.H. Martin to James Combe reporting the substance of his meeting with Sir Charles Cayzer. 1909. (ii) Letter from C.W. Cayzer to Mr Martin concerning the valuation of property available for sale. Written on reverse of a letter from Andrew Hendry & Sons, solicitors, to Sir Charles Cayzer, reporting the willingness of the Directors of the Bannatyne Home of Rest to purchase his villa. (iii) Copy letter to Sir Charles Cayzer from the Directors of the Bannatyne Home of Rest, sent by the Inland Revenue to the Lord Provost of Dundee, James Combe Esq., and James Martin Esq., Trustees of the Bannatyne Home. 1915.

Correspondence, copy patent, copy specification, accounts relating to a patent for improvements in brakes for vehicles invented by William Huggins, Foreman Patternmaker, Dundee, with Daniel McCallum, Brassfounder, Dundee.

MS 17/11/12
Item
1897-1899

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

[16 items]

Correspondence, including some estimates, mainly from Robert Gibson, Civil Engineer and Architect, Dundee, relating to repairs, alterations and additions to Bannatyne Home of Rest.

MS 17/8/5
Series
1904-1915

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Correspondence, mainly copies, between James Dalyell and Robert [later General] Dalyell (third brother of Sir James Dalyell)

MS 17/9/5
Item
1819-1825

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Cconcerning Robert Dalyell's attempts to secure promotion for James, or an alternative appointment.

Correspondence, reports and appeals relating to dispute over the initiation of Jack Johnson, "the well known pugilist", as a member of the Masonic lodge Forfar and Kincardine, Dundee, no. 225. .

MS 17/12/12
Item
1911-1912

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda and newspaper cuttings relating to the acceleration of mails between Dundee and England.

MS 17/2/7
Item
1890-1892

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Mentioned are D. Deuchers, North British Railway Company, Dundee Advertiser, Dundee Town Council, John Leng MP, Lord Dean of Guild McGrady, W. Thornton Esq. [20].

David Guthrie to James Hunter regarding James Dalyell's request to be buried in Panbride Church

MS 17/10/6/20
Item
21 Sep 1869

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

David Stewart's valuation plan of property No. 1; block plan of David Stewart's property, FENTON STREET, DUNDEE.

MS 17/P/64/1
Item
1873

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Architect: Alexander Hutcheson

Scale: Approx. 1in. to 42ft.

David Stewart's valuation plan of property No. 2. FENTON STREET DUNDEE; plan of ground floor. Table gives areas occupied by warehouses, dwelling houses etc. Dimensions of closes

MS 17/P/64/2
Item
1873

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Architect: Alexander Hutcheson.

Scale: Approx. 1in. to 7ft.

David Stewart's valuation plan of property No. 3 FENTON STREET,DUNDEE; plan of first and second floors.

MS 17/P/64/3
Item
1873

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Architect: Alexander Hutcheson.

Scale: Approx. 1in. to 7ft.

David Stewart's valuation plan of property No. 4 FENTON STREET,DUNDEE; plan of upper floors and cellars.

MS 17/P/64/4
Item
1873

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Architect: Alexander Hutcheson.

Scale: Approx. 1in. to 7ft.

David Stewart's valuation plan of property No. 5 FENTON STREET,DUNDEE; elevations.

MS 17/P/64/5
Item
1873

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Architect: Alexander Hutcheson.

Scale: Approx. 1in. to 7ft.

Decreet obtained by James Wod of Lamblethame and William Wod, his tutor, against James Melvill of Feddinche and his tenants for arrears of annual rent.

MS 17/7/1/9
Item
14 Nov 1609

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

[Two pieces]

Decreet of reduction James Melvill, sometime of Faidynche and John Weymis of Craigtoun against Janet, Elizabeth and Margrat Barclay, daughters of the deceased Alisone Melvill and David Barclay of Touch, their father, Margaret Melvill wife of James Ross...

MS 17/7/1/17
Item
16 Mar 1615

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Decreet of reduction James Melvill, sometime of Faidynche and John Weymis of Craigtoun against Janet, Elizabeth and Margrat Barclay, daughters of the deceased Alisone Melvill and David Barclay of Touch, their father, Margaret Melvill wife of James Ross of Wardlaw and Christian and Catharine Melvills (Alisone, Margaret, Christian and Catherine all being daughters of John Melvill of Raith)

Deed of assumption and deed scedules

MS 17/8/1/3
Item
1949-1950

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

(i) Draft Deed of Assumption by the Trustees in favour of Lewis Findlay Robertson and John Campbell Low. 1949. (ii-iii) Deed schedules naming signatories. 1950.

Deed of assumption and testing clause

MS 17/8/1/12
Item
1945

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

(i) Deed of Assumption by the Trustees in Favour of David Air, Reginald Robert Ovenstone and George Matthew Cleghorn. 1945. (ii) Copy testing clause subscribed by Sir Garnet Wilson and others. 1945.

Despatch Book of the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway

MS 17/3/2
Item
Dec 1891 - Jan 1893

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Directors' reports of the Newport Railway Company

MS 17/1/7
Item
1874-1876

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Disposition by Catherine Symsone and George Tough skipper, burgess of Dysert, her husband, Marie Symsone, Archibald Urquhart merchant burgess of Dysert, her husband, and Charles Arnot fiar of that Ilk and Robert Arnot, provost of Perth, her curators, a...

MS 17/7/1/36
Item
15 -24 Jul 1650

Part of The Thornton Collection of Manuscripts and Plans

Disposition by Catherine Symsone and George Tough skipper, burgess of Dysert, her husband, Marie Symsone, Archibald Urquhart merchant burgess of Dysert, her husband, and Charles Arnot fiar of that Ilk and Robert Arnot, provost of Perth, her curators, and Janet Symsone and Johne Gay late baillie burgess of Dysert, her tutor, in favour of David Symsone of Smetane and David Symsone, his eldest son, of the lands of Feddinch in implementation of a decreet arbitrall.

15 and 24 July 1650.

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