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Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Mark Sprot of Garnkirk and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10309-10323
Dates:
1827-1895.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
File
Identifier: F.R.341
Dates:
1819-1879.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Minute book recording the formal business of the society running an evangelical library at South Queensferry.
File
Identifier: MS.9810
Scope and Contents
The minute book also contains a list of members' names, with the numbers of the books issued to them each month. Three book-seller's accounts, giving the titles of religious works purchased for the library, are inserted.
Dates:
1825-1856.
'New book for the use of the wright[s] of Dunfermline ... Bought the 15 day of Sep: 1724 Att the disire of the Tread James Walker present Deacon’, a book containing minutes of meetings of the Incorporation of Wrights of Dunfermline.
Item
Identifier: MS.3866
Scope and Contents
The minutes are in two series which have been foliated separately. The first series (folios 1-22) contains records of admissions to the Incorporation at various dates within the period 1677-1763. The second series (inverted folios 1-126) relates almost entirely to appointments of deacons, boxmasters, and other officers, and to audits of boxmaster’s accounts, 1724-1727, 1730-1832. Inverted folios 127-179 and 181-184 are blank, and inverted folio 180 contains a list of members who had 'been...
Dates:
1677-1832.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.196
Dates:
1641-20th century.
Photostat of the Order Book of the Stewart of Appin Clan Regiment, from 11 October 1745 to 18 January 1746, containing the orders for the whole of Prince Charles Edward's army during that period.
Item
Identifier: MS.3787
Scope and Contents
The orders are followed by a list of killed and wounded of the Regiment, accounts for pay, November 1745, and a return of the strength of the companies.
Dates:
1745-1746.
Records of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11208
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes, accounts, membership lists, bet books, programmes, notes and printed books.
Dates:
1744-1992.
Records of the Union Friendly Society, Gilcomston, Aberdeenshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8344
Dates:
1805-1860.