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Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning the case of Messrs Tait against James A Maconochie.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/19
Dates:
1823, undated.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges and sister organisations.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6889
Dates:
1909-1967.
Papers of the National League of the Blind, Edinburgh Branch.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.123- is now Acc.4686.
Dates:
1943-1967.
Papers of the Piobaireachd Society, including correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth).
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14539
Content Description
Further papers of the Piobaireachd Society, containing Society business files and a small number of manuscripts and printed books belonging to the Society. The largest part of this collection is formed by the correspondence and papers of Archibald Graham Kenneth (Archie Kenneth), including correspondence with his friend James Campbell, son of Archibald Campbell of Kilberry (1916-2003), and others; papers concerning his editions of some of the Piobaireachd Society music...
Dates:
1940s-1980s.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.
Dates:
1946-1982.
Papers of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13162
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of five files of general correspondence and papers dated from 1993 and 1997.
Dates:
1993-1997.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10885
Dates:
1945-1985.
Papers relating chiefly to the election of Scottish Representative Peers.
File
Identifier: MS.1026
Scope and Contents
Some letters to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville), 1783-1807, unconnected with election, possibly indicate that these are part of the Melville papers. The papers consist of minutes of elections, lists of peers and their votes, protests, excerpts from ancient records, proposals as to methods of electing, and other papers.
Dates:
[?1703]-1771, 1783-1807, undated.
Papers relating to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington with campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together during the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13614/1-4
Scope and Contents
Papers related to the involvement of Professor Hugh Pennington (Emeritus Professor Bacteriology, University of Aberdeen) with the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, particularly with the campaign groups Better Together and Academics Together.
Dates:
2012-2014
'Record of the Linnen Manufactory in Dunse, 1765’, i.e. Duns Linen Company.
File
Identifier: MS.3707
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Rules and regulations of Partnery (page 1);Minutes of meetings, 1765-1771, 1774 (page 14);A transfer of a share, 1766 (page 57);Invoices, 1767-1768 (page 60);Copies of out-going letters relating to dealings with William Tod & Company, London, 1768-1771 (page 66).Promoted in 1765 by neighbouring gentry and inhabitants of Duns with a view to the public benefit, the company was composed...
Dates:
1765-1774.
Records of the Edinburgh People's Festival.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14155/1-42
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh People’s Festival (EPF) was founded in 2002 by Colin Fox as a ‘more accessible and inclusive cultural alternative’ to the Edinburgh International Festival. It presented a series of plays, lectures, concerts, pageants, ceilidhs, and art exhibitions in different venues around the city of Edinburgh in August and throughout the year until 2018. The EPF was established in part as a tribute to the festival of the same name organised by the Edinburgh Labour Festival Committee,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1954, 2003-2020.
Records of the Scottish Working People`s History Trust.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13340
Scope and Contents
The records include correspondence, minutes of meetings, agendas and other related papers concerning the establishment of the trust on the initiative of the Scottish Labour History Society.
Dates:
1990-1993.
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.
Signet Library, "Bibliotheca Polonica", List of the Polish books presented in 1821 by Count Adam Zamoyski and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.10990
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of minutes and letters, and some borrowing notes.
Dates:
circa 1821.
Single items and small collections, chiefly of the 16th and 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: MS.9931
Scope and Contents
The contents include:
A letter, 1562, of William Maitland of Lethington to the Earl of Leicester, expressing his wish for continued friendship between Elizabeth and Mary (folio 1);
A letter, 1581, of the Jesuit, William Crichton, describing his efforts to have James VI brought up as a Catholic (folio 6);
A letter, 1621, of Michael Drayton to William Drummond of Hawthornden, published in ‘The library’, 5th series, volume xxi (1966), pages 328-330 (folio 21);
Short Latin poems by Andrew...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1562-1820.
‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’, being a collection of copies of the letters & proceedings connected with the military and other operations of the Scotch in England from August 1640 to March 1641 including the whole minutes of conferences and proceedings of the English & Scotch Committees.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.6
Dates:
1640-1641.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.