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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, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
Diaries, albums and photographs of the Campbell, Login and Maitland Mackgill Crichton familes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12549
Dates:
circa 1803-1965.
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7488
Scope and Contents
1. Scrapbook inscribed `James Malcolm Palmer Douglas. This book started by his father and continued by his mother, 1948`, with pasted in letters, household accounts and bills for garden seeds, genealogical charts, invitations, menu cards, press cuttings and photographs, 1712-1948, undated.2. Plan of the Cavers Estate the property of James Douglas Esq., 19th century.3. Plan of the Cavers Estate, 19th century.4. Cavers Estate Woods, record of plantations,...
Dates:
18th century to 20th century.
Further papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14268/1-42
Scope and Contents
Comprising Lord Macmillan's commonplace books with notes on his scholarly and personal reading; papers on his professional service and appointments, including a collection of press cuttings documenting his career; and fragments of correspondence and literary drafts, with photographs and family ephemera.
Dates:
1887-1952.
Music books containing fiddle music written by William McKinley, with a quantity of loose sheets of music and accompanying material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22137-22141
Dates:
19th century-1943.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Papers and photographs of Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st viscount Haldane, and of the Haldane family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13595
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs, 1858-1937 and undated, relating to Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1856-1928), politician, lawyer and philosopher, and to the Haldane of Cloan family.
Dates:
1858-1937
Papers of and concerning Lex McLean, mostly relating to his career in entertainment.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13700/1-19
Dates:
Circa 1940-1980.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.328- is now Acc.13138.
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.
Records of the Amalgamated Slaters` Society of Scotland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.124- is now Acc.4707.
Dates:
1913-1963.
Signed and annotated copies of works by Professor John Dover Wilson, together with copies of works on Shakespearean scholarship (some annotated by Wilson) presented to him.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12697
Dates:
1905-1966.