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Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.19420-19571
Scope and Contents Arthur Elliot was the second son of the 3rd Earl of Minto and his papers form a valuable supplement to the Minto collection. Included here are papers of Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Emma, Lady Hislop, the grandmother of Arthur Elliot. Particularly well represented is Elliot's mother, Nina, Countess of Minto, her papers being especially rich in her correspondence and literary manuscripts. As an active Member of Parliament over a period of...
Dates: 1828-1956, undated.

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.

Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates: 1697-1698, 1817-1893.

Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907-1913.

Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.11-81.2.38
Scope and Contents

The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.

Dates: 1852-1900.

Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9930
Scope and Contents

Includes minute books, correspondence and financial records.

Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30
Scope and Contents The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...
Dates: 1639-1789.

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Records of East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13285
Scope and Contents

Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

Dates: 1921 - 2001

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Correspondence. 19
Financial records. 19
Minute books. 11
Letters. Correspondence. 5
Lists. 5
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Manuscripts. 5
Ledgers. Account books. 4
Notes. 4
Account books. 3
Copies. Derivative objects. 3
Deeds. Legal documents. 3
Diaries. 3
Drafts. Documents. 3
Genealogies. 3
Legal documents. 3
Photographs. 3
Accounts. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 2
Business records. 2
Cashbooks. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Letter books. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Notebooks. 2
Postcards. 2
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 2
Proofs. Printed matter. 2
Publications. 2
Receipts. Financial records 2
Rules. Instructions 2
Speeches. Documents. 2
Travel journals. 2
Typescripts. 2
Visitors' books. 2
Abstracts. Summaries. 1
Administrative records. 1
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
Annual reports. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Bankbooks. 1
Biographies. 1
Bo'ness. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Falkirk. Longitude: -3.6167. Latitude: 56.0167. -- Borrowstounness. -- Borrowstoness. 1
Bookplates. 1
Books 1
Brochures. 1
Calculations. 1
Cartoons. Humourous images. 1
Catalogues. 1
Certificates 1
Cheque books. 1
Cheques. 1
Circulars. Fliers. 1
Coats of arms. devices (symbols). 1
Commonplace books. 1
Constitutions. Legal documents. 1
Contracts. Agreements. 1
Documents. 1
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Estimates. Financial records. 1
Excerpts. 1
Fair copies. 1
Histories. 1
Instructions. Document genre. 1
Inventories. 1
Lectures. 1
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 1
Membership lists. 1
Memorandums. 1
Memorandums. Legal documents. 1
Microfilms. 1
Military records. 1
Minutes of agreement. Legal instruments. 1
Notarial instruments. Legal instruments. 1
Orders. Records (documents). 1
Pamphlets. 1
Parliamentary papers. 1
Powers of attorney. Legal instruments. 1
Prospectuses 1
Protocol books. Legal documents 1
Receipts. Financial records. 1
References 1
Registers (lists) 1
Registers (lists). 1
Reports. 1
Sales records. Financial records. 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Signatures. Names. 1
Syllabi. 1
Transcripts 1
Translations. Documents. 1
Warrants. Permissions. 1
Watercolours. Paintings. 1
Wills. 1
Writs. Judicial records. 1
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Language
English 18
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Names
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 1
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Beneficent Society of Bo'ness 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1