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Annual Reports, accounts and minutes of North Berwick Golf Club.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13228

Scope and Contents North Berwick Golf Club was formed on 8th May 1832 to play over the links there. The original course of 6/7 holes was extended to 12 in 1869-70 taking over the Park to the west. In 1877, the Club acquired the right to play over part of the Dirleton estate. This became known as the Private Golf Links or Greens. From the earliest days, the members of the Club dined together after their matches and, in 1879, it was resolved to build a Clubhouse by the links. The committee formed to oversee this...

Dates: 1984 to 2005.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.

Collection

Identifier: Dep.229

Dates: 1900-1965.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Facsimile of the minute-book, 1771-1792, of the Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian), and related papers.

Item

Identifier: MS.1843

Scope and Contents

Also included are accounts, 1771-1785 (folio 72, inverted), and the first three pages of the second minute book, 1793-1794, 1824.

This is one of several facsimile copies made in 1893 to the order of the Society, for distribution to members.

Dates: 1771-1794, 1824.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Minute and record book of the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust, kept by its Clerk-Treasurer, K M Oliphant, Writer to the Signet.

Item

Identifier: MS.24724

Scope and Contents The Scottish National Library Endowment Trust was established at the Instigation of Hugh P Macmillan King’s Counsel, later Lord Macmillan, its Honorary Secretary, to receive gifts from private individuals towards the establishment of a National Library on the basis of the non-legal collections of the Advocates’ Library. Its most notable receipt, £100,000 from Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Grant in June 1923, made possible the establishment of the Library in 1925.The volume...

Dates: 1923-1925.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Minute book recording the formal business of the society running an evangelical library at South Queensferry.

File

Identifier: MS.9810

Scope and Contents

The minute book also contains a list of members' names, with the numbers of the books issued to them each month. Three book-seller's accounts, giving the titles of religious works purchased for the library, are inserted.

Dates: 1825-1856.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Minute books and accounts of various political associations.

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.12454

Scope and Contents

Minute books of: (1) Cardross Unionist Association, 1938-1961; (2) Cunninghame District Conservative Local Government Advisory Committee, 1979-1983.

Notes and accounts of Bridge of Weir Liberal Association, 1919-1964.

Accounts of Galloway Liberal Association, 1930-1933.

Minutes of Strathclyde Liberal Regional Association, circa 1974.

Dates: 1919-1983.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Minute books and other records of the United Incorporation of Mary`s Chapel, Edinburgh.

Collection

Identifier: Dep.302

Dates: 1755-1949.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Minute books and papers of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh.

Series

Identifier: Dep.375

Dates: 1773 to 20th century.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'New book for the use of the wright[s] of Dunfermline ... Bought the 15 day of Sep: 1724 Att the disire of the Tread James Walker present Deacon’, a book containing minutes of meetings of the Incorporation of Wrights of Dunfermline.

Item

Identifier: MS.3866

Scope and Contents The minutes are in two series which have been foliated separately. The first series (folios 1-22) contains records of admissions to the Incorporation at various dates within the period 1677-1763. The second series (inverted folios 1-126) relates almost entirely to appointments of deacons, boxmasters, and other officers, and to audits of boxmaster’s accounts, 1724-1727, 1730-1832. Inverted folios 127-179 and 181-184 are blank, and inverted folio 180 contains a list of members who had 'been...

Dates: 1677-1832.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of "Cencrastus".

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.10532

Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories and poems, and business records including minute books, corrspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1980-1991.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of "Cencrastus".

Fonds

Identifier: Acc.9164

Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of prose and poetry contributions, editorial correspondence and business records, including accounts and minute books.

Dates: 1979-1985.

Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division