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Sederunt books of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and of the Trustees of James Ballantyne and Company.
Series
Identifier: MSS.111-114
Dates:
1799-1841.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.
Ship`s log, 1708-1709, of the "Elizabeth" of Prestonpans.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8409
Scope and Contents
With minutes, 1742-1746, of the Boxmasters of Prestonpans, concerning administration of poor-money.
Dates:
1708-1746.
Signet Library, "Bibliotheca Polonica", List of the Polish books presented in 1821 by Count Adam Zamoyski and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.10990
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of minutes and letters, and some borrowing notes.
Dates:
circa 1821.
Single items and small collections, chiefly of the 16th and 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: MS.9931
Scope and Contents
The contents include:
A letter, 1562, of William Maitland of Lethington to the Earl of Leicester, expressing his wish for continued friendship between Elizabeth and Mary (folio 1);
A letter, 1581, of the Jesuit, William Crichton, describing his efforts to have James VI brought up as a Catholic (folio 6);
A letter, 1621, of Michael Drayton to William Drummond of Hawthornden, published in ‘The library’, 5th series, volume xxi (1966), pages 328-330 (folio 21);
Short Latin poems by Andrew...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1562-1820.
Southern Light Drama archive
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Identifier: Acc.13586
Scope and Contents
The archive of Southern Light Drama, a sub-group of the Southern Light Opera Company, Edinburgh, for which see Acc.12682. Southern Light Drama was in existence from 1946 to 2012, and was originally named the Southern Light Opera Company - Drama Section. The archive contains:
Minute books, 1946-2012; account books, 1970-2012; newsletters nos. 1-52, 1984-2006; and year books, 1946-1979.
Dates:
1946-2012
Store book of Colonel [John] Adlecron's Regiment, 39th Foot, kept by Stephen Julian and Edward Forde, successive quartermasters, when the regiment was based in the Carnatic at Fort St David and Fort St George.
File
Identifier: MS.6291
Scope and Contents
Copies of other documents of a military nature have been added. The volume has been damaged and several pages are missing, particularly at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) Quarterly records of stores issued for the use of the regiment, September 1754, to March 1759 (folio 1);(ii) Copy of 'Instructions for the Commanding Officer of Train of Artillery attending His Majesty's Forces ordered to the East Indies', dated 21 February 1754 (folio 30...
Dates:
1744-1778.
The Scottish Library Association (SLA) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13656/1-129
Scope and Contents
The archive contains the minutes, correspondence, committee papers, working group papers and reports produced by the Scottish Library Association (SLA) from 1912-2005, before it became the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) in 2005. Also included are photographs from various SLA conferences, video cassette tapes and CD-ROMs produced by the AV Scot Archive which is the Scottish branch of the Library Association Audio Visual Group. The...
Dates:
1912-2006.
Three minute books and other papers of the Scottish Convention.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6649/1-4
Dates:
1942-1949.
Titles, financial records and papers of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11812/1-208
Scope and Contents
The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates:
1624-1972.
Transcripts, 18th century, of journals, 1547-1553, of the House of Lords for the reign of Edward VI; with a collection of songs and airs, 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.31
Dates:
1547-1553, 18th century.
Transcripts, circa 1855, of extracts of the Kirk Session records, 1668-1768, of Melrose, compiled by James Swinson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9840
Scope and Contents
With Communion rolls, 1792, 1813, for Gattonside.
Dates:
1668-circa 1855.
Transcripts of records of migrant ship 'Canterbury' sailing from Glasgow to Otago, New Zealand.
File
Identifier: Acc.12967
Dates:
1878.
‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’, being a collection of copies of the letters & proceedings connected with the military and other operations of the Scotch in England from August 1640 to March 1641 including the whole minutes of conferences and proceedings of the English & Scotch Committees.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.6
Dates:
1640-1641.
Two documents concerning the building of a schoolhouse in Bathgate.
File
Identifier: Acc.6749
Dates:
1760.
Typed transcript of minutes of the Bo`ness Branch of the Independent Labour Party.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9413
Scope and Contents
Includes subject and name indexes.
Dates:
1927-1937.
Typed transcripts, 1956-1957, concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose in the period 1455-1710.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3566/1-2
Scope and Contents
Comprising typed transcripts of the town council minutes and burgh count books of the Burgh of the Chanonry of Ross, 1647-1658, and the Burgh of Fortrose, 1674-1710, and of charters and other deeds concerning the Burghs of the Chanonry of Ross, Rosemarkie and Fortrose, 1455-1661.
Dates:
1956, 1957.
Typescript minute books of the Royal College of Physicians.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3439/1-11
Dates:
1682-1861.
Typescript verbatim of meetings between the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the Brassfinisher’s Society, Scottish Brassmoulders’ Union, and the East of Scotland [Employers] Association of Engineers and Ironfounders.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5734
Dates:
1908-1937.
Vestry minutes of the Episcopal Chapel in the Cowgate.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6515
Dates:
1 January 1799.
Volume containing a brief account of the formation of the Belles-Lettres Society, Edinburgh, in January 1759 (folio 1) and minutes of its meetings until 29 May 1761 written in the hands of its successive secretaries.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.4
Scope and Contents
The minutes of most of the meetings from 30 March 1759 are signed by the president, who was elected for the evening.
Dates:
1759-1761.
Volume of copies and extracts apparently made for William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the accounts of Robert Lord Boyd, Collector General of Thirds, for the year 1576, covering Kirklands in Inverness, Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, Fife, Strathearn, Nairn, Banff, Elgin, and Forres (folio 1).(ii) Minutes extracted from the Exchequer Register, covering the periods July 1630 to November 1634 (folio 73), January 1642 to June 1647 (folio 104 verso), and July 1661 to June 1674 (folio 116)....
Dates:
1576-1684.
Volume of miscellaneous papers, mostly Scottish, many relating to ecclesiastical affairs.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.13
Dates:
1563-1670 and undated.
Xerox copies, 1967, of documents, 1912-1948, concerning the Railway Clerks' Association.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4262/1-5
Dates:
1912-1948.