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Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1752-2002, undated.

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.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.23171-23192
Scope and Contents

The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.

Dates: 1846-1924, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Records of East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13285
Scope and Contents

Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

Dates: 1921 - 2001