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Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.
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.
Accounts of tradesmen’s wages and tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning work undertaken in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
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.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Letters and papers of John Baird, shipmaster in Leith.
Consists of ships’ accounts, bills of lading, receipts for lighthouse dues, commercial correspondence, and legal documents. There are only 5 documents for 1720-1726.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Miscellaneous letters and documents.
Miscellaneous letters and papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
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.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Papers, comprising charters of various families, from the archives of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Papers of John Skene of Hallyards.
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.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Receipts for payment of the first dividend by the Trustees of James Ballantyne and Sir Walter Scott.
Includes other accounts and financial papers concerning the affairs of Scott, most being addressed to John Gibson, W.S.
Records of the Saltire Society.
The Society was founded in 1936 and its aims are to preserve all that is best in Scottish tradition and to encourage every new development which can strengthen and enrich Scottish cultural life.