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NORTH AMERICAN
STUDIES GROUP
RESOURCES
FOR AMERICAN AND CANADIAN STUDIES IN SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH
LIBRARIES
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National Library of Scotland
Manuscripts
& archives
This is a selection
only of the many items connected with North America held by the Library's Manuscripts
Division. Besides the named collections mentioned below, the Library holds many
individual letters and groups of letters concerning emigrants and visitors to
the USA and Canada; theological matters; sailings from Scottish and Northern
English ports; business and trade; and military matters.
- Robert Anderson
Correspondence, 1805-29 [letters from correspondents in the USA addressed
to Robert Anderson, editor of the Edinburgh Magazine]
- Ashburner Papers,
1803-67 [correspondence of the Forrester and Barstow families of Salem, MA,
1803, 1809, 1822-4, 1839, 1864-7, with genealogical tables of Salem families]
- Thomas Borthwick
Papers, 1878-85 [ includes 30 letters of or to Alexander Graham Bell]
- Sir George Brown
Papers, 1850-1, 1861 [letters concerning Canada]
- Dr John Brown
Papers, 1874-1909 [contains correspondence with several American literary
figures]
- Cadell of Grange
Papers, 1773-1805 [letters and papers concerning overseas, including American,
trade, and a proposed steel mill in New England]
- Campbell Journals,
1874 [journals describing a tour across North America from New York to San
Francisco, including watercolour sketches and photographs]
- Church of Scotland:
Correspondence of the General Assembly, 1826-9 [correspondence relating to
Canada]
- Church of Scotland:
Minute-books, 1836-87 [minutes of various Committees on Colonial Churches]
- Cochrane Papers,
1779-1856 [Private and official correspondence and papers of Admiral Sir Alexander
Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands, 1805-14,
and of the North American Station, 1814-15; and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas
John Cochrane (1789-1872)]
- Cochrane Johnstone
Papers, 1804-32 [correspondence and papers of Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Governor
of Dominica and MP for Grampound]
- Combe Papers
[George Combe, 1788-1858, Writer to the Signet, phrenologist and early 19th-century
reformer, visited the USA in 1838-40; the collection contains a journal of
his visit and extensive American correspondence]
- William Cunninghame
& Co.: Letter-books, 1767-74 [microfilm; business letter-books by agents in
Falmouth and Williamsburg, VA]
- Drummond Papers,
1836-96 [letters of Henry Drummond, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the
Free Church College, Glasgow, containing comments on a geological visit to
North America and his work with the evangelists Moody and Sankey]
- Extracts in
the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden of the record of the Scottish
expedition to Canada in 1628
- Elibank Papers,
1916-20 [correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Arthur C. Murray, Viscount
Elibank, when Assistant Military Attache in Washington, DC]
- Ellice papers,
1770-1867 [extensive correspondence and papers relating to family property
and dealings in New York and Canada, especially relating to the fur trade]
- Fletcher of
Saltoun Papers, 1756-60 [12 letters concerning the war in North America]
- Fraser Papers,
1865-1909 [American correspondence of Prof. A. Campbell Fraser, philosopher
and editor of the North British Review]
- Geddes Papers
[including letters dealing with the visit of Sir Patrick Geddes to American
in 1900]
- Gordon-Cumming
Papers, 1781-1910 [diaries and letters concerning visits of various members
of the family to the USA and Canada, including 6 letters from General Sherman]
- Graham of Gartmore
and Ardoch Papers, 1890-1918 [including letters from several prominent American
literary and political figures]
- Haldane Papers
[Haldane was Secretary of State for War, 1905-12; the collection contains
some correspondence with major US and Canadian political figures]
- Halkett Papers,
1772-95, 1836-7, n.d. [including letters, 1772-95, mostly to Sir John Halkett,
Bart., describing the American War of Independence; and letters, 1836-7, to
Admiral Sir Peter Halkett, Bart., when he was Commander-in-Chief of the American
and West India Station, many concerning the slave trade]
- Alexander Houston
& Co.: letter-books, 1729-31, 1776-81, 1792-8, 1777-1807 [letters to the Glasgow
company's agents in Great Britain and the West Indies and to captains of the
company's ships]
- Chevalier de
Johnstone: Memoirs [microfilm of mss of two published works that include descriptions
of the war in Canada in 1758 and 1759]
- Sir Robert Liston
Papers, 1796-1800 [personal correspondence of Liston and his wife, Henrietta
Marchant, covering the period of Liston's service as the second British Minister
to the United States]
- John Gibson
Lockhart Correspondence, 1831-6 [contains 4 letters from Washington Irving]
- John MacLeod
letters, 1775-81 [12 letters written while on service in America]
- McLeod of Geanies
Papers, 1773-6 [letters to Donald McLeod, 3rd of Geanies, from his brother
James in Virginia and St Vincent]
- Antoine Simon
Maillard (d. 1768): Catechism [in Micmac and French]
- William Law
Mathieson: 'Governor Eyre' [draft of an uncompleted biography of Eyre that
contains an account of the 'negro rising' of 1865 in Jamaica]
- Maxwell, MacMurdo
and Newhall Family Papers, 1747-1803 [correspondence and papers concerning
family matters and business in Virginia and Pennsylvania]
- Melville Papers,
1787-1819 [Papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), and
of Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), and others,
relating to financial affairs in Canada, 1787; Canadian affairs, 1787-1815;
the West Indies, 1791-1819; Russia and the Northern Confederation, 1789, 1800-1,
n.d.; Canada and Newfoundalnd, 1793-1813]
- Minto Papers
(Early family papers), 1756-73 [letters of Andrew Elliot, Lieutenant-Governor
of New York, on American affairs; and a letter on East Florida]
- Minto Papers
(Papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto), 1832-44 [extensive correspondence on the
Governor-Generalship of Canada, on social life in Halifax, American politics,
etc.]
- Minto Papers
(Papers of the 3rd Earl of Minto), 1854-19-- [letters, 1854, 1859-60, of Sir
Charles Elliot; letters, 1899-19-- of and to Theodore Roosevelt]
- Minto Papers
(Papers of the 4th Earl of Minto), 1883-1905 [correspondence and papers, c.1883-6,
1898-1905, of the 4th Earl and his wife, chiefly relating to the Governor-Generalship
of Canada]
- Erskine Murray
Papers, 1776 [copies of letters from Montreal and South Carolina concerning
the war in North America]
- General Sir
George Murray Papers, 1814-15 [Murray served in Canada 1814-15, where he commanded
troops and also the civil government of Upper Canada]
- Nisbet papers,
1756-92 [papers of William Molleson, Comptroller of the Army Accounts and
Commissioner for Auditing the Public Accounts, concerning the British Army
and financial administration in North America]
- Pitfirrane
Papers, 1755 [19th-century copies of letters and journal concerning the battle
of Fort Duquesne]
- Richards Papers,
19th century [correspondence and papers of the Richards family of Gardiner,
ME]
- Robertson-MacDonald
Papers, 1765-1805 [family papers, the chief correspondents being William Robertson
(1721-93), Principal of Edinburgh University, and his son William. The materials
collected by Principal Robertson for his work on America are included, along
with the autograph manuscript of part of his History of America. Also included
are Colonel George Croghan's journal of his journey down the Ohio in 1765;
letters on the military experiences of successive clan chiefs: Alexander MacDonald
in America, 1775-80, Donald MacDonald, Governor of Tobago, 1800-05]
- Rutherfurd
Papers, 1838-9 [letters concerning the troubles in Canada and the claims of
the Church of Scotland in Canada]
- Hugh Sharp
Collection, 1791-1864 [a few letters from and to American political figures,
including Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln; also a deed
of sale of a slave woman and child, 1831]
- Steuart Papers
[including a microfilm of the letter-books, 1751-63, of Charles Steuart, Cashier
and Paymaster, with copies of his business correspondence as a merchant in
Norfolk, VA; official correspondence of Steuart, 1758-97, mainly with customs
officials; letters from mainly Norfolk Loyalists; 'Account books for the years
1776-1796']
- Charles Strachan
(later Fullarton): Letter-book, 1763-70 [Business letters of Strachan, a trader
in Mobile, AL, 1763-70]
- Stuart of Torrance
Papers, 1775 and n.d. [these include 'Thoughts on the present state of America
and Lord North's late declaration...'; a copy of a petition to the Treasury
for losses sustained in the fire in New York]
- Stuart Stevenson
Papers, 18th century [Letters, 1776-7 of Major Hon. Charles Cochrane on progress
of the war in America; correspondence, 1777, 1782-4, 1788 of Hon. John Cochrane,
Deputy Commissary to Forces in America, mainly concerning a Canadian lawsuit;
papers relating to the family's West Indian affairs]
- William Sulzer
Scrapbook, 1916-17, 1920-22 [correspondence and printed items concerning William
Sulzer, Governor of New York, 1912-13, his political career and American politics]
- Traill Papers
[including correspondence from various American scientists to Thomas Stewart
Traill (1781-1862), Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh]
- United Presbyterian
Church, 1847-79 [copies of letters to various ministers in Canada]
- Watson Autographs,
16th-19th century [A collection of letters by various noted literary and historical
figures including c.45 American items]
- Yester Papers,
1662-1815 [including papers relating to trade in the Caribbean, 1662-4, 1666;
letters and papers relating to the Darien scheme, 1695-6, 1698-1702; 31 letters,
1757-9, mostly to Lord Charles Hay while on service in Halifax, NS; journals
of Lord Charles Hay and other documents relating to military activity in Novs
Scotia; 42 letters, 1807-15, to George Hay, mainly on military affairs in
Canada]
Microform &
audiovisual collections
- Abolition &
Emancipation, part 1: The Papers of Thomas Clarkson, William LLoyd Garrison,
Zachary Macauley, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Wilberforce
from the Huntington Library [9 reels]
- Afro-American
History Files [58 fiches]
- Aitken's General
American Register, 1773-1774 [1 reel]
- American Biographical
Archive [1842+ fiches]
- American Papers
in the House of Lords Record Office [39 reels]
- American Presidential
Election Campaign Biographies, 1824-1972 [422 fiches]
- The American
Revolution in Context [6 reels]
- The Annie Adams
Fields Papers [3 reels]
- Archives of
American Publishers on Microfilm, series 1: Harper & Bros, 1817-1914 [58 reels]
- Archives of
the Federal Writers' Project, part 1 [9 reels]
- The Arthur
St Clair Collection [8 reels]
- Bibliography
of American Women [47 reels]
- The Brook Farm
Papers [1 reel]
- The Collections
of the Minnesota Historical Society [9 reels]
- The Cuban Missile
Crisis, 1962 [586 fiches]
- Despatches
from United States Consuls in Scotland [32 reels]
- Danford, J.:
Diary of the Siege of Quebec, 1775 [1 reel]
- The Hancock
Papers [2 reels]
- Hessian Documents
of the American Revolution 1776-1783 [362 fiches]
- The John Muir
Papers [51 reels, 53 fiches]
- The Langston
Hughes Collection [4 reels]
- Letters and
Papers of Richard Rush [29 reels]
- The Lorne Pierce
Papers [16 fiches]
- The Louisbourg
Papers [1 reel]
- The Mackenzie
King Diaries [222 fiches]
- Main Catalogue
of the Library of Congress through December 1980 [8794 fiches]
- The Masarene
Family Papers [1 reel]
- Massachusetts
Historical Society Papers [5 reels]
- The Mercy Warren
Papers [2 reels]
- National Inventory
of Documentary Sources in the United States [2686+ fiches]
- National Security
Files, 1961-1969: Vietnam [60 reels]
- New York Public
Library Register of Microform Masters: Monographs [129 fiches]
- Nuclear Weapons,
Arms Control, and the Threat of Thermonuclear War: Special Studies, 1969-1988
[26+ reels]
- The Papers
of Aaron Burr [27 reels]
- The Papers
of Benjamin Henry Latrobe [315 fiches]
- The Papers
of Eugene V. Debs [21 reels]
- The Papers of
John Paul Jones [10 reels]
- The Papers
of Walt Whitman [34 reels]
- The Records
of the Virginia Company of London [2 reels]
- Selected Americana
from Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America [35000+ fiches]
- Terrorism:
Special Studies, 1975-1985 [5 reels]
- The U.S. Intelligence
Community, 1947-1989 [266 fiches]
- United States
Local History Catalog of New York Public Library [2 reels]
- United States
Surgeon General's Office Library Catalog [4 boxes of microprint]
- Unpublished
US House of Representatives Committee Hearings, 1833-1936 [1200 fiches]
- The Warren-Adams
Papers, 1767-1822 [1 reel]
- The William
Lloyd Garrison Papers [1 reel]
- The William
Smeal Collection [11 reels]
Official publications
Under its exchange
scheme with the Library of Congress (1950-1994), the Library received the following
publications, listed according to government department or section:
USDA
- Yearbook
- Agricultural
statistics
- Foreign agriculture
- Agricultural
research
COMMERCE
- Annual report
- Business America
- Foreign economic
trends and their implcations for the US
CENSUS
- Statistical
abstracts Pocket data book
- Foreign trade
reports
- FT 130: general
imports of cotton, wool and manmade fiber manufactures
- FT135: United
States general imports, schedule A, commodity by country
- FT410: United
States exports, schedule E, commodity by country
- FT800: United
States trade with Puerto Rico and United States possessions
- FT810: Bunker
fuel: oil and coal laden in the United States on vessels engaged in foreign
trade
- FT900: Summaryof
United States export and import merchandise trade
- FT990: Highlights
of united States export and import trade
CONGRESS
- Congressional
directory
- Congressional
record (final ed.)
US Code
- Hearings
- Economic indicators
DOD
- Annual report
- Nautical almanac
- Corps of Engineers
annual report
- Country studies
(formerly Area Handbooks)
EDUCATION
- Annual report
- American education
ENERGY
FEDERAL MARITIME
COMMISSION
FCC
GAO
- Annual report
of the comptroller general
GPO
- Monthly catalog
of US Government publications
GSA
- Annual report
- US Government
manual
- Public papers
of the President
- Satutes at large
HHS
- Public health
reports
- Social security
bulletin
--- statistical
supplement
- Vital statistics
of the US
HUD
- Annual report
- Statisticsal
yearbook
INTERIOR
- Reclamation
era
- Mineral yearbook
- Mineral perspectives
JUSTICE
- Annual report
- Uniform crime
reports
- INS annual report
- Drug enforcement
JUDICIARY
- Federal probation
- US Reports
- Annual report
of the Administrative Office of the US Courts
- Customs law
digest
LABOR
- Annual report
- Monthly labor
review
- Bureau of Labor
Statistics bulletins
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
- all publications
available through the Government Printing Office
NLRB
NSF
US POSTAL SERVICE
- Annual report
- National ZIP
code directory
OPM
PRESIDENT
- Economic report
of the President
OMB
STATE
- Dept of State
bulletin
- Foreign relations
of the US Diplomatic list
- US Treaties
and other international agreements
- Treaties in
force
- Background notes
AID
SEC
SBA
SMITHSONIAN
AMERICAN HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION (not a Federal body)
TREASURY
- Annual report
on state of finances
--- statistical
appendix
IRS
- annual report
- Bureau of the
Mint annual report
- Comptroller
of the currency annual report
- Treasury bulletin
DOT
- Annual report
- Public roads
MARAD
VA
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