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Records of Donaldson`s College, Edinburgh, the National School for Deaf Children.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11896
Dates:
1826-1950.
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
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Dates:
1648-20th century.
Records of the Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13348
Scope and Contents
Records, 1949 - 2011, of the Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps, comprising correspondence, agendas and minutes of committee meetings and annual general meetings, ephemera, photographs and two floppy disks.
Dates:
1949 - 2011.
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 Falkirk Office of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Foundry Section.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.204
Dates:
1889-1967.
Records of the Royal Highland Yacht Club
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14054/1-8
Content Description
Minutes, correspondence, lists of members, newsletters and journals.
Dates:
1970-2021.
Records of the Union Friendly Society, Gilcomston, Aberdeenshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8344
Dates:
1805-1860.
Register of assignations of stipends, arranged geographically, of ministers in Scotland (folio 5), preceded by a list of prices of victuals assigned to ministers in different parts of the country (folio 1), and followed by a copy of a letter, 1575, of the Regent Morton to Lord Boyd concerning a vacant benefice in Orkney (folio 82 verso).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.4
Dates:
1574-1575.
Register of official letters and writs of Charles I, sent by William Alexander, later Earl of Stirling, in his capacity of Secretary of State for Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.12
Scope and Contents
The letters are not in strict chronological order. Folios 3-97 contain letters of 1626-1627; folios 97-143, letters of 1630-1635; and folios 144-372 also letters of 1630-1635. They are preceded by forms of address of various officials (folio 1).
Dates:
1626-1635.
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Statutes of the Order of the Garter in English (folio 1). The Statutes are those of Edward VI, 17 March 1552/1553, and are followed by a list of knights present at that Chapter. For other Statutes in English, see Adv.MS.31.7.18.(ii) `Regula pauperum commilitonum Christi templique salomonici` by Joannes Michaelensis, written in two hands of the 12th century (folio 18). The order of chapters differs from that given in...
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12335/84-243
Scope and Contents
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
Dates:
1539-2001.
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 letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.2521
Scope and Contents
The papers include: letters, 1795, 1810, of Sir Alexander Boswell, containing original humorous verse; copy of a list, 1849, made by Cockburn, giving the authorship of articles in the 'Edinburgh Review'; contemporary copy of a speech, ?1617, delivered by James I and VI in Edinburgh (parts being given in summary); letter, 1807, of Sir James Bland Burges (afterwards Lamb) on Sir Walter Scott's literary profits; letter, 1808, of Sir James Mackintosh dealing with Indian affairs; letter, 1830,...
Dates:
?1617-1849.
Soldier`s pay-book of Edward Fraser, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry.
File
Identifier: Acc.10026
Scope and Contents
With two letters, 1972, concerning the pay-book and a copied extract from a muster roll of 1860.
Dates:
1855-1860.
Subscription sheets, correspondence and a programme concerning instrumental music at the Annual Riding of Linlithgow Marches.
File
Identifier: Acc.10142
Dates:
1909.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates:
1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.
Tradesman’s letters, bills and receipts concerning an extension to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/17
Dates:
1882-1886, undated.
Typescript copy of a checklist of letters of Thomas Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.2343
Scope and Contents
Concerning all the letters of Thomas Carlyle in the National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
1775-1881.
Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.
File
Identifier: MS.7195
Scope and Contents
John Francis Campbell of Islay, Gaelic scholar and government official, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lord Colin Campbell, Member of Parliament for Argyll, are frequently featured. The volume includes an answer to a petition, ?1681, by the Earls of Erroll and Strathmore, and a list of debts, 1681, due by Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll. There are also two letters of Lord Archibald Campbell, one of J F Campbell of Islay, and a Gaelic poem, 1685, on Archibald, 9th...
Dates:
1681-1879.
Volume containing an account of Leven`s Regiment (which later became the 25th Foot) from 1688, when it was raised by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, to 1826.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.21
Scope and Contents
The volume would appear to have been the first of two, for the leaves are watermarked 1860 and folio 175 is inscribed in pencil `See Book No II`. The work is anonymous: it appears to have been made the basis of the text of ‘Records of the King`s Own Borderers’ by R T Higgins, but neither the text nor the many pencil additions and alterations appear to be in his hand. The account begins at folio 13, being preceded by a summary account to 1793 (folio 1) and `A List of His Majesty`s...
Dates:
1860, or after-1908.
Volume entitled (folio i) `Miscellania [sic] Scotica Curiosa Or A Collection of Curious, rare, and valuable Paper`s: Relating to Scotland, and Scots Affaires. Collected and Coppied, from the Originalls. by C:R:S:` containing transcripts of Scottish historical documents, extracts of manuscripts and copies of correspondence, from various sources, 1419-1731, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.18
Scope and Contents
The collection was compiled by Captain Robert Seton, Judge Advocate for Scotland, and consists of:(i) Copies of correspondence, 1566-1567, of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (folio 1) including two letters of Mary, Queen of Scots not recorded in Labanoff`s collection. The letters are similar to, but not the same as many of the letters in MS Calig CI from the Cottonian Library in the British Library: they may have been copied from the portion of the collection that was destroyed in the...
Dates:
1419-1731.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes; with correspondence and other papers of Rattray.
Series
Identifier: MS.14246 (1)-(2)
Dates:
1819-1922, undated.