Papers including correspondence of the Berry family of Aberdeenshire and other family members in Edinburgh, Somerset and Denmark. These are on a range of topics, notably on medical matters in the case of Dr Barclay's correspondence. There are also references to India, Jamaica, the 1831/2 cholera epidemic and the family's reaction to Walter Berry's second wife's alcoholism.
The main series of correspondence are:
DD641/1/1 Dr George Barclay ( - 1820)
DD641/1/2 Emma Barclay
DD641/1/3 Walter Berry (- 1833)
DD641/1/4 George Berry (1795 - 1874)
DD641/1/5 George Barclay (1820 - 1910), son of Dr George and Emma Barclay
DD641/1/6 Edmund and George Berry, sons of George Berry
DD641/1/7 Walter Oliphant Berry
DD641/1/8 Letters concerning the award of the Danebrog to Edmund Berry
DD641/1/9 Other family correspondence.
By far the largest set of correspondence is that of George and Emma Barclay.
The collection also includes legal papers relating to various members of the family, likely accumulated in the course of Eleanor Berry's research (DD641/2). There are also genealogical research notes compiled by Eleanor Berry, including photographs of various family members, and 19th century papers relating to the Danish branch of the family (DD641/3).