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Account book, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5937
Scope and Contents
Including rent receipts for urban property.
Dates:
1828-1836.
Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.9
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.
Dates:
1690-1705.
Acquittance, 1473, signed by James III in favour of Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston
File
Identifier: Acc.8957
Scope and Contents
With licence, 1509, in favour of Alexander Napier of Merchiston, signed by James IV, to travel to Amiens.
Dates:
1473-1509.
Agreement between Domenico Ronca and Thomas Carlyle and receipt of Ronca to Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.10582
Scope and Contents
Agreement and receipt concern the keeping of fowl at 6 Cheyne Row.
With letter of Jane W Carlyle to John A Carlyle concerning the building of a client room by Thomas Carlyle.
Dates:
1853.
Archives concerning Polish students at the University of St Andrews.
File
Identifier: Acc.12374
Dates:
1941-1950.
Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.19
Scope and Contents
Letters of:Admiral Lord Ancon (folio 1);George Canning (folio 10);Robert Clive (folio 12);`Alfred Crowquill` (folio 17);Allan Cunningham (folio 18);King Edward VII (folio 23);Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood (folio 27);Warren Hastings (folio 33);George Heriot (folio 35);David Hume (folio 42);Thomas Jefferson (folio 44);Samuel Johnson (folio...
Dates:
15th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Bound volume entitled 'Trousseau of Elizabeth Brand Scott on her marriage to James Steuart W.S., on 27 February, 1827'; with a volume of Jacobite papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3411/1-2
Dates:
1827, undated.
Copies of emigration papers of Ernest Robb.
File
Identifier: Acc.13121
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of copies of Ernest Robb`s emigration papers, c. 1900-1972. The papers include a typescript diary of the journey from Plymouth to Australia, an immigration identity card, Ernest Robb`s Australian passport, a receipt of passage`s money, a passenger`s contract ticket as well as photographs of Ernest and his brothers Jock, emigrant to Western Australia, and Bob, emigrant to the USA.Ernest Robb was born in Castlehill cottage, Troqueer, Kirkudbrightshire,...
Dates:
circa 1900-1972.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9174/1-46
Scope and Contents
Thepapers comprise letters of and to members of the Cameron of Fassifern family (chiefly John Cameron of Fassifern, Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassifern and Sir Duncan Cameron of Fassifern, and, to a lesser extent, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and Donald Cameron of Lochiel), estate and household papers, legal deeds and accounts and other papers concerning Lieutenant Colonel John Cameron and his regiment, the 92nd Foot. A miscellaneous section includes inventories of furniture and books at Fassifern...
Dates:
1643-1901, undated.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of ‘De jure successionis andc regni Angliae Libri duo’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.1
Scope and Contents
This was one of several works written in reply to ‘A Conference abovt the next svccession to the crowne of Ingland’ written in 1594 by `N. Doleman` (a pseudonym for a group of Recusant exiles led by Sir Francis Englefield, but then and long afterwards thought to be of Robert Parsons, Society of Jesus).The dedication of the work, to King James VI of Scotland, is dated 1 January 1603: the peaceful accession of James to the throne of England later that year was probably deemed by...
Dates:
Circa 1603.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
File
Identifier: Acc.5623
Scope and Contents
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.
Dates:
1755-1830 and undated.
Formal documents from the papers of Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd, Senator of the College of Justice.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8896-8907
Dates:
1805-circa 1852.
Four receipts concerning the family of Menzies of Menzies.
File
Identifier: Acc.11452
Dates:
1747-1753.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13405
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1947-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton, Lord Selkirk of Douglas. The collection comprises papers, 1947-1977, concerning the death of Douglas, 14th Duke of Hamilton; correspondence, 1954-1994, of James Douglas Hamilton with George, 10th Earl of Selkirk; papers, ca. 1980-1994, relating to his death and the future of the earldom; and personal papers and correspondence, ca. 1950-1985, of Lord Selkirk of Douglas.The correspondence includes letters of several statesmen and other...
Dates:
1947-1994.
Jacobite letters and papers assembled by Donald Louis Nicholas.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8611
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Pretenders and members of their families, and the Risings of 1715 and 1745.The letters are as follows:1. Letter 17 June 1709 of Prince James Francis Edward, The Old Pretender, to Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Duc de Villars, meréchal de France.2. Letter 28 July 1709 of Mary of Modena, Queen Consort of James II, King of Great Britain.3. Letter 4 May 1711 of The Old Pretender to the Duc de Villars.4. Letter 13 June...
Dates:
1709-1793, 1821, 1824 and undated.
Ledgers, receipts, contracts and other business papers and correspondence of Messrs John Grant Ltd, booksellers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5024 [ledgers] (1)-Box 6(4)
Dates:
1886-1960, undated.
Letters and papers of John McDiarmid Airlie, ILP and Labour activist.
File
Identifier: Acc.11566
Dates:
1912-1933.
Papers, accounts, receipts and correspondence relating to the financial affairs of James Ballantyne and Co, and to Sir Walter Scott as partner in the firm, most being connected with John Gibson W.S., as solicitor to the Trustees.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12952
Dates:
circa 1825-1827.
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.291
Dates:
1554-19th century.
Papers including legal and financial documents of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh.
File
Identifier: Acc.14466
Dates:
1695-1863.
Papers of James Lauder Davidson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13567
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises several manuscript and typescript diaries which illustrate James Lauder Davidson’s experiences during his time in Burma, before and after WWII, and his military involvement in the conflict. Of particular interest are the earlier and later diaries, as well as the diary charting his escape into China. The collection also includes two photographic albums. The first one (item 2 in the collection) includes original photographs taken by Davidson. Most of them include...
Dates:
1938-1947
Papers of James P M Millar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5695
Scope and Contents
Concerning his work for the Labour College movement, and the General Strike in Edinburgh, 1926.
Dates:
1913-1946 and undated.
Papers of John Skene of Hallyards.
File
Identifier: Acc.5770
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. account, 1679, of expenses paid by John Skene
2. receipts, 1688, for pay by Skene to the Midlothian Militia
3. two lists, 1678 and circa 1680, of Scottish militia.
Dates:
1678-1688.
Papers of John W Stewart.
File
Identifier: Acc.9921
Scope and Contents
Concerning Stewart`s service in Gambia.
Dates:
1939-1953.