[ Stuart family of Castlemilk and Torrance. ] Manuscript: 'Torrance Library | Copy List of Books forwarded to Sir Richard Harington | June 1916'.

6pp., folio. On two bifoliums held together with pink ribbon. Folded into a packet and docketed. 56 books are listed, with author's names and dates of publication, and details of presentations and inscriptions, such as 'B P Stuart - Charlotte Stuart - The Gift of Robt. Harington' and 'Memo in Rob Harington's Handwriting'. Includes works in English, French and Italian, the earliest being Wright's 'Rutland', 1684 ('B P. Stuart of T. | Marianne Harrington [sic] 1834') and the latest O. M. Mitchell's 'Orbs of Heaven', 1853 ('R Harington'). From the Harington family papers. (The family of Andrew Stuart (1725-1801) of Torrance was related to the Harington baronets through the marriage in 1830 of Charlotte Stuart to Robert Harington, younger son of Sir John Edward Harington, 8th Baronet. Through her, on the death of her elder sisters, the estate of Torrance descended to Colonel Robert Edward Harington-Stuart.)