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Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.
Dates:
Circa 1795-1905.
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.
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.299
Dates:
1643-19th century.
Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11878
Scope and Contents
Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.
Dates:
1812-1831.
Letters to, and drafts of replies of, John Cay, the Convenor of the Finance Committee of the Faculty of Advocates, and other papers.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/12
Dates:
1833-1838.
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
Minutes and other records of the Conference of Scottish Medieval Historians.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.287
Dates:
1958-1996.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/51
Scope and Contents
The papers include the following: Binding (1848), Sale of duplicates (1823), Cataloguing of manuscripts (circa 1839), Booklists (1832-1834), Faculty's collection of coins (1840), Music (1830-1833), Engraved portraits for sale (1824), Newspapers (1831, 1877), Booklets (1832-1834).
Dates:
1824-1881.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
Papers of part of the surviving business archive, or relating to the work, of Thomas Telford (1757-1834), engineer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19969-19978
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of business correspondence, draft reports, accounts and other papers relating to Thomas Telford's professional activities for the last decade of his life, as well as correspondence and some drafts relating to the 'Life of Thomas Telford civil engineer' itself. The business papers relate mainly to Scottish undertakings and to harbours, canals and fen drainage, with some personal and professional accounts.
The collection is roughly half of the material which survived in John...
Dates:
1795-1838, undated.
Papers of Samuel Beazley.
File
Identifier: Acc.9135
Scope and Contents
Concerning the building of Leys Castle near Inverness.
Includes correspondence, reports and accounts.
Dates:
circa 1833-1842.
Papers of the Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12142/1-111
Scope and Contents
The Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, was founded in 1959 as the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-USSR Association. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the branch became the Scottish Branch of the Great Britain-Russia Association, before becoming the
Britain-Russia Centre, Scotland, in the later 1990s. The aim of the organisation was to promote understanding between the two areas through personal and professional contacts on a politically impartial basis. The organisation was...
Dates:
1962-1999.
Papers of the Duchess of Atholl, Katherine Marjory Stewart Murray, concerning the Scottish National War Memorial.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.125- is now Acc.4714.
Dates:
1920-1958.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Records, 1877-1954, of the Association of Sheriff and Commissary Clerks of Scotland; with earlier papers, 1808-1879, relating to sheriff clerks, deputes and procurators.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.371
Dates:
1808-1954.
Records of the Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12602
Dates:
1896-2004.
Records of the National Union of Mineworkers, Scotland, Ayr Area Council.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.258
Dates:
1924-1972.
Records of the Scottish Youth Hostels Association
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13372
Scope and Contents
Annual Reports, minutes, correspondence, reports, property records and photographs, 1931-2012, undated, of and relating to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association.Following preliminary meetings in 1930s, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association was formed in Edinburgh in1931at a public meeting chaired by Lord Salvesen ‘To help all, but especially young people of limited means living and working in industrial and other areas, to know use and appreciate the Scottish countryside and...
Dates:
1931-2000
Scripts of plays of Sean Hignett, and others, for television.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7573
Scope and Contents
With papers concerning Waverley Broadcasting Ltd.
Dates:
1971-1978.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.