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Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Correspondence and papers of George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.
The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.
Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.
Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Edinburgh Opera Company.
Minutes, accounts and members' lists, 1948-1954, of the Edinburgh Opera Company. The Edinburgh Opera Company was founded in 1920 and was in existence until 1981. The first meeting in the minute book, 25 October 1948, records the reconstitution of the Company with new links to the Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee, which had started a new Institute of Music at Broughton High School.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Letter books, correspondence and other records of the printing firm of T and A Constable, Edinburgh, together with records of the Edinburgh Press, which was amalgamated with the firm in 1936.
Microfilm of account book, 1752-1758, of Mary Dudgeon; and, consultation book, 1766-1833, of James Boswell Esquire of Auchinleck.
The contents are as follows:
Account book, 1752-1758, of Mary Dudgeon, housekeeper to the family of James Erskine, Lord Alva, Senator of the College of Justice (Adv.MS.2.1.9);
The Consultation Book of James Boswell Esquire of Auchinleck, Advocate Who put on the Gown 29 July 1766. Written with his own hand’, 1766-1772, 1831-1833. (Adv.MS.3.1.10).
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 2. The correspondence and records of Smith, Elder and Company from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Minute book, cash book and associate members` register of the Social Democratic Federation, Executive Committee.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Papers of Trinity Bowling Club.
Includes minute book, proposal book, subscription lists, account books, record of matches, menu card and photographs.
‘Record of Subscriptions & Payments in the County of Berwick in aid of Government towards the Defence of the Country', a ledger kept by Alexander Christie of Grueldykes.
The ledger contains subscription-lists of the various parishes and copies of relevant correspondence 1798-1802, with loose letters, 1799-1803, 1810-1811.
Records of East Edinburgh Unionist Association.
Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.
Soldier`s pay-book of Edward Fraser, Sergeant, 3rd Bengal European Infantry.
With two letters, 1972, concerning the pay-book and a copied extract from a muster roll of 1860.