Letters from their son James Munro Macnabb, assistant to John Shakespeare, Superintendent of Police and on tour with the Governor General and Headquarters camp in North India; including descriptions of the ceremonial, social and sporting activities of Lord Hastings and his staff and some comment ...
A few letters from their son James Munro Macnabb while on walking tour in Switzerland; including landing at St Helena, description of Bonaparte and anecdotes, 1817.
Letters from their son James Munro Macnabb and his wife Jane Mary (nee Campbell); their engagement and marriage; his appointment as Master of the Calcutta Mint and expense of living in Calcutta; birth and death of first child Flora and other family news; including one letter to his mother 1828 a...
Other correspondence with papers of Dr James Macnabb relating to family matters; including letter to Baron Maclaren [father of Mary Macnabb] relating to a legal dispute ("Robb's Affair"), 1798.
Two business letter books of Dr James Macnabb and his wife Mary concerning investments and other financial affairs, with orders and acknowledgements of various household and personal goods; including letters [unbound] to Mrs Mary Macnabb concerning executry of her husband and his will, dated 1816.
Letters to Mary Macnabb from her nephew Major General Sir Robert Henry Dick mainly concerning family matters but some containing news from India relating to his army career and the beginnings of the Sikh War; including obituary notices on his death at the Battle of Sobraon.