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Game book of Duncan Campbell of Smith Hall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9869
Scope and Contents
Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.
Dates:
1902-1914.
Game book of J A Anderson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8855
Scope and Contents
Details shoots at Tullichewan and other places in Scotland.
Dates:
1927-1944.
General order book of the Coastguard station at Belhelvie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10330
Scope and Contents
Contains copies of orders and papers of John J Arrow, Commander, Royal Navy, at Aberdeen.
Dates:
1821-1824.
General Order Book of the Fife Regiment of Militia containing printed and manuscript War Office circulars addressed to the commanding officer of the regiment.
Item
Identifier: MS.9364
Scope and Contents
Several of the circulars are signed by Viscount Palmerston as Secretary-at-War, and Viscount Sidmouth as Home Secretary.
Dates:
1811-1814.
Glenquoich Visitors` book, 1846-1863, and twenty-two letters, 1837-1867, to Edward Ellice of Invergarry from various correspondents.
Series
Identifier: Dep.356
Dates:
1837-1867.
Grocer`s account book detailing sales in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6074
Dates:
1819-1834.
Haberdashery account book of Mrs Colonel Grant of Grant.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6508
Dates:
1817-1822.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom`s Cabin" (Edinburgh, A and C Black, 1853), with copy of letter of author to the publishers.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6823-is now MS. 50256
Scope and Contents
Including correspondence with and concerning the illustrator, M U Sears.
Dates:
1853.
“Heures roϊalles contenant l'office divin et plusieurs Oraisons tres-devotes”, a prayerbook written in Belgium.
Item
Identifier: MS.9154
Scope and Contents
The prayerbook contains the Mass (folio 20), preparation for confession and communion (folio 71), the Penitential Psalms (folio 136), litanies of the saints (folio 309 verso) and of the Virgin (folio 320 verso), Vespers for Sundays (folio 215), and the 'Ordo benedicti habitum [sic: 'benedictionis habitus' is meant] Confraternitatis S. Joannis decollate' (folio 330), as well as other liturgical material and numerous prayers intended for private use. There is a list of contents on folios...
Dates:
1734.
Household and personal account book of Charles Maule and his family, living near Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12851
Dates:
1773-1781.
Household ledger of the Trotter family for Dreghorn House.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14579
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Instructions, 1579, of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms, to heralds, and a minute-book of executions, 1608-1609, by Thomas Lamb, Messenger-at-arms.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.12
Scope and Contents
‘Instructions set forth by Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms and his brethrene heralds at speall comand of my Lords Regent and Lords of secret counsall to be observit be ye officiare of armes within this realme in all tymes cumy for dew service to our soverane Lord and his Leidgis at Ed[r], the secund day of Jannuar 1577’. The five first pages are written in the same hand.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the...
Dates:
1579, 1608-1609.
Interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: MS.15942
Scope and Contents
There are notes, instructions and sketches throughout by Thomas Powrie and by the stage manager, J H Smith.
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Interleaved copy of "Questions Addressed to Students of Natural Philosophy", (Aberdeen, 1830).
Item
Identifier: Acc.7717
Scope and Contents
Containing answers in an unidentified hand on the interleaves.
Dates:
1830.
Jamaican estate letter book of Hugh F Leslie of Leith Hall sugar plantation.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10241-is now MS.50272
Dates:
1846-1848.
John of Fordun`s "Scotichronicon", edited by W Goodall (Edinburgh, 1759), with notes by Professor D E R Watt preparatory to his edition.
File
Identifier: Acc.12579
Dates:
1759.
Journal and account book of Mrs Burton-Sayers` work party.
File
Identifier: Acc.11999
Dates:
1940-1941.
Journal and commonplace book of an inhabitant of Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.5270
Dates:
1836-1844.
Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny.
File
Identifier: MS.15393
Scope and Contents
The narrative covers the period from 21 December 1855 to 3 July 1861, but with several gaps, and is followed (folio 131) by a miscellany of notes and memoranda on various topics including moral maxims, medical and household recipes, puzzles and mathematical formulae. From the formality of the layout and handwriting, the photographs and drawings pasted in at various places, and the poems and extracts interspersed in the narrative, it seems likely that this is a fair copy written up at leisure...
Dates:
1855-1861.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10342-10370
Dates:
1752-1885, undated.
Journals and notebooks of Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13420
Scope and Contents
Edward Theodore Salvesen (1857-1942) was the son of Christian Frederick Salvesen (1827-1911), the Norwegian born founder of the Salvesen shipping company of Leith. He was educated at Edinburgh University and called to the Scottish Bar in 1880, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1899. As a Liberal Unionist candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituencies of Leith Burghs in 1900 and Bute in 1905. He was Sheriff of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire and Selkirkshire from 1901-1905...
Dates:
1873-1900.