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Correspondence, reports, research notes and other papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, scientist and researcher.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9010/1-247
Scope and Contents Correspondence and research papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, Scientific Consultant, 1914-1985. Although there is some personal correspondence, the papers relate mainly to Dr Woodward’s scientific career, including his work as a scientific civil servant, 1930-1947, at the Chemical Defence Research Establishment, Sutton Oak, on chemical warfare and in particular on mustard gas, at the Ministry of Supply, Leamington Spa, on camouflage research, and at the Ministry of Production, where his...
Dates: 1914-1985.

Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Diary of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5059
Scope and Contents

Also included are:

(i) Three of John Ballantynes' letters, 1820-1821 (tipped-in at folios 1, 16 and 19);

(ii) Minutes of a meeting, in June 1821, of Ballantynes' trustees (tipped-in at folio 22);

(iii) A letter, 1821, of Ballantynes' brother, James (tipped-in at folio 26).

On the flyleaf is a note concerning the provenance and identity of the volume.

Dates: December 1814-July 1818, 1821.

Edinburgh Opera Company.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13945
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1948 - 1954

Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16

Five French workers' record books.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5693
Scope and Contents Five French Workers’ record books of various communes in the département of the Loire, arrondissement of St. Êtienne, 1837, 1856, 1867, 1876, with entries up to 1894. The books contain printed extracts of the law relating to employees, and manuscript details of individual workers.Employers recorded the arrival and departure of each employee in his or her livret, and the employee had to carry and show the book to confirm his release from his previous employment; changes were...
Dates: 1837-1876

Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.

 Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates: 1822-1936.

Further records of the Edinburgh Booksellers' Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14473
Scope and Contents

Includes:

Annual Reports 1945-52, 1953-62.

Cash books 1884-1921, 1940-1966.

Correspondence 1967-1983.

Investment register, 1923-1958.

EBS Social Fund, 1922-1940.

Expedition to Grasmere, 1933.

Laws and regulations, 1792, 1959, 1975, 1984.

Dates: 1884-1989

General order book of the Coastguard station at Belhelvie.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10330
Scope and Contents

Contains copies of orders and papers of John J Arrow, Commander, Royal Navy, at Aberdeen.

Dates: 1821-1824.

‘Grant manuscript.’

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents

The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).

Dates: 1494-1593, 17th century.

Gude Cause Archive.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13293/1-240
Scope and Contents Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates: 2006-2010

`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.15
Scope and Contents

At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.

Dates: 1832-1853.

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Minutes. Administrative records. 322
Administrative records. 293
Correspondence. 200
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Letters. Correspondence. 43
Notes. 35
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Lists. 30
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Manuscripts. 27
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Programmes 23
Memorandums. 20
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Sederunts. Administrative records. 15
Leaflets. 14
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Account books. 13
Photocopies. 13
Posters. 13
Annual reports. 12
Cashbooks. 12
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Publications. 11
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Plans (orthographic projections). 5
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Financial statements. 4
Invoices. 4
Lectures. 4
Maps. Cartographic materials. 4
Periodicals. 4
Professional papers. 4
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Registers (lists). 4
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Transcripts. 4
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Catalogues. 3
Conferences 3
Genealogies. 3
Indexes. Reference sources. 3
Instructional materials. 3
Instructions. Document genre. 3
Lecture notes. 3
Membership lists. 3
Plays. 3
Political posters. 3
Postcards. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
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English 511
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Saltire Society 21
Scottish Film Council (SFC) 17
Scottish National Party 9
Church of Scotland 6
Edinburgh International Festival Society 6
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Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 6
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 6
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 5
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association 4
Scottish Council for Educational Technology 4
Scottish Labour History Society 4
United and Incorporated Trades of St Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh 4
World Day of Prayer, Scottish Committee 4
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) 3
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society 3
Engender (1992-) (women's rights organisation, Scotland) 3
Films of Scotland Committee 3
Findhorn Foundation 3
MacDougall, Ian, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society, b 1933 3
Morning Star Publications, Edinburgh 3
National Party of Scotland 3
National Union of Railwaymen, Edinburgh Number 1 Branch, 1913-1990 3
Piobaireachd Society 3
Porteous, James A A, author of "Scotland and the South", fl 1929-1970 3
Scottish Covenant Association, Scottish Convention 3
Scottish National Dictionary Association 3
Scottish Poetry Library, 1984-, Edinburgh 3
Scottish Working People's History Trust 3
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh District 2
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Abbeyhill Branch 2
Andrew Fletcher Society, Scotland, political discussion and research group 2
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 2
Border Co-operative Society, Galashiels 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Central Ironmoulders' Association of Scotland, 1889-1926 2
Church of Scotland, General Assembly 2
Church of Scotland, World Mission and Unity Department 2
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 2
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 2
Edinburgh Booksellers' Society Limited, 1879- 2
Edinburgh Booksellers' Society, 1776-1879 2
Edinburgh Film Festival 2
Edinburgh Film Guild 2
Edinburgh and Leith Consular Corps 2
Farquhar, Ronald Middleton, Minister of Monigaff, 1929-1986 2
Fox, Colin, b. 1969 (politician) 2
Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland 2
Franco-Scottish Society, Scottish Branch 2
Galliard Publishing Ltd 2
Graphical, Paper and Media Union, Edinburgh Branch 2
Green, George (Showman, cinema exhibitor) 2
Grieve, Robert, Sir, Knight (Professor Emeritus, Town and Country Planning, University of Glasgow) (1910-1995) 2
Hardy, Henry Forsyth (film critic) 2
Highland Society of London 2
Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers 2
Ironfounding Workers' Association, 1926-1946 2
Macluskie, Ronnie B 2
McIntosh, James (Hamish) (educationalist and secretary, Andrew Fletcher Society) 2
National Council of Labour Colleges 2
National Union of Foundry Workers, 1920-1946 2
National Union of General and Municipal Workers, Edinburgh No 5 Branch 2
National Union of Mineworkers, Fife Area 2
National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Edinburgh Branch 2
National Union of Public Employees, Scottish Region 2
National Union of Vehicle Builders, Edinburgh Branch 2
Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh Lodge 2
Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh 2
Royal Society of Edinburgh 2
Russell, Stanley Livingstone (filmmaker) 2
Scottish Colliery Engineermen, Boilermen and Tradesmen's Association 2
Scottish Craft Centre 2
Scottish Educational Film Association (SEFA) 2
Scottish Film Production Fund 2
Scottish Green Party 2
Scottish Liberal Democrats, political party 2
Scottish Liberal Party, political party 2
Scottish National Operative Plasterers' Union 2
Scottish Operative Plumbers Protective and Benefit Federal Union, Edinburgh Branch 2
Scottish Painters' Society, Edinburgh District Committee 2
Scottish Screen 2
Scottish Society of Painters, Edinburgh Central Branch 2
Singleton, George, cinema proprietor, known as 'Mr Cosmo', 1900-1995 2
Social Democratic Party, political party 2
South Edinburgh Liberal Association 2
Southern Light Opera Company, Edinburgh 2
Transport and General Workers' Union 2
Wardie Bowling Club, Edinburgh 2
ASH Scotland, anti-smoking charity 1
Abbey of St James, Ratesbon: former owner 1
Academics Together (pro-union campaign organisation, Scotland.) 1
Advisory Council for the Arts in Scotland 1
Aitken Dott and Son, Edinburgh, fine art dealers 1
Alexander, Donald, documentary filmmaker, 1913-1993 1
All Saints Dining Club 1
Amalgamated Society of Engineers 1
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 1871-1913 1
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Leith Branch 1
Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists, Edinburgh Branch 1
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Action Committee, Longannet Power Station 1
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Edinburgh 1st Branch 1
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