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Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning James Sutherland.
Papers of the Wauchope of Niddrie family, including letters and receipts.
Letters, invoices and accounts relating to various members of the Wauchope family, including letters of Andrew Wauchope, 1729, and James Wauchope, 1742; invoices for washing, sewing and works to the house at Niddrie; receipts for items including a gold watch and a marble fireplace; and an account for food, drink and other miscellaenous items.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.
Papers relating to Sir Walter Scott, 2nd Baronet.
Papers relating to the military service of Lieutenant Walter R Cuthbert, RFA, in Mesopotamia and India.
Includes a list of photographs taken in Mesopotamia, papers connected with Cuthbert`s post-war claims for arrears of pay and allowances, a receipt from British Empire Union and copies of sketches by Mrs Cuthbert (Wendy Wood) made during her husband`s RFA training.
Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.
Photocopy of a share card of the Perth New Wheaten Bread Society.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Receipt book of payments made by the Reid Symphony Orchestra, Edinburgh.
Receipt by James Earl of Arran to George Home, portioner of Gullane.
Receipt by John Earl of Atholl to Archibald Hering in Wester Drymmie.
Receipt by Patrick Shaw of Langshaw, on behalf of Mary Countess of Buccleuch, to James Dick in Coldoun for feu-duty.
Receipt for Heinrich Schliemann`s photograph albums and plans, purchased by Sinclair Hood.
Receipt for land tax paid by Lord Haddington to the Jacobite army.
Receipt of the Edinburgh and Leith Shipping Company.
For shipment of a box from London to Leith to Messrs J Smith and Son.
Receipt of William Robertson to William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, for a family painting, a frame and a "perspective camera".
Receipts for payment of the first dividend by the Trustees of James Ballantyne and Sir Walter Scott.
Includes other accounts and financial papers concerning the affairs of Scott, most being addressed to John Gibson, W.S.
Records of East Edinburgh Unionist Association.
Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.
Records of the Saltire Society.
The Society was founded in 1936 and its aims are to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage every new development which can strengthen and enrich Scottish cultural life.
Request by Henry Raeburn for payment for his double portrait of Robert Colt of Auldhame and his wife Grace Dundas, with receipt for the same, signed by Henry Raeburn, the artist`s son.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
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).