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Photocopy of minute of meeting of freeholders of Argyll pledging to support the King against the Pretender.
Photocopy of the last will and testament, 1809, of Alexander MacDonell of Keppoch, the resident in Prince Edward Island.
With associated extract, 1810, from the minutes of the PEI Court of Probate.
Photocopy of the session book of the Kirk of Shotts.
Photographs, films, notebooks and associated papers of Rev Dr Archibald Clive Irvine, relating to his military service and missionary work in Kenya.
Dr Irvine trained as a surgeon at Aberdeen before seeing wartime service in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1917-1919. In 1919, he was appointed medical missionary to the new Church of Scotland mission to Chogoria. He took up his post in 1922 and remained at Chogoria until his retirement in 1961. He was ordained in 1933 and died in Nairobi in 1974.
The photographs, films and papers represent Dr Irvine's working and family life.
Photographs of minutes of the Maggior Consiglio of Venice.
Accepting Petrarch`s proposals for a public library.
Political papers, including correspondence, press cuttings, and minutes, of Frank Yeaman, with some personal and miscellaneous papers. Also included is material relating to the early days of the Scottish National Party.
Printed minutes, circulated to members, of the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland.
With records, 1903-1935, of fellows and scholars of the trust.
Proceedings apparently of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Production files, scripts and administrative papers of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.
Professional and personal correspondence and papers of Sir Alastair MacTavish Dunnett, newspaper editor and businessman.
Contains correspondence and papers concerning personal and business matters, including papers of several Thomson Organisation companies, and of many Scottish public bodies including the Edinburgh Festival Society, the Scottish Tourist Board and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
'Record of the Linnen Manufactory in Dunse, 1765’, i.e. Duns Linen Company.
Records, 1877-1954, of the Association of Sheriff and Commissary Clerks of Scotland; with earlier papers, 1808-1879, relating to sheriff clerks, deputes and procurators.
Records, 1887-1908, of the Scottish Operative Plumbers Protective and Benefit Federal Union, Edinburgh Branch.
With two letter books, 1872-1891, of the Operative Plumbers` Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh Lodge.
Records, 1887-1908, of the Scottish Operative Plumbers` Protective and Benefit Federal Union, Edinburgh Branch; with two letter-books of the Operative Plumbers` Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh Lodge, 1872-1891.
Records and minute books of World Mission and Unity Department, Church of Scotland.
Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.
Records and papers of Donaldson's Hospital, Donaldson's School and Edinburgh Royal Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children
Constitutions, reports, minutes, correspondence, financial records and printed books, 1846–2001, of Donaldson's Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children and, from 1938, Donaldson's School.
Records concerning wages, hours and working conditions of provincial busmen.
Records, including minutes, reports, correspondence and related papers, of the Scottish Convention of Women.
Records of, and papers concerning, the Seaforth Highlanders.
Includes some typescript material relating to an earlier period of the regiment, in its Regular, Militia and Service battalions especially 3rd and 10th; with three volumes relating to the Seaforth Highlanders Regimental Association and material on Regimental Club and War Memorial. Also papers on welfare of prisoners of war.