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Account book, Edinburgh.
Including rent receipts for urban property.
Account book for the Faculty of Advocates Library Building fund.
Account-book of examination fees of the Faculty of Advocates
Accounts and abstract of accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.
The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Correspondence and papers of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot and his family.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
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.
Financial records and correspondence relating to the administration of the estate of the Maxwells of Monreith.
Ledgers and financial records of the Westmuir Colliery, Shettleston, Glasgow.
Letter-book of John Ewing, Writer to the Signet, legal agent for the Earls of Morton, concerning the Earls` affairs in Orkney and Shetland.
The correspondence is mostly legal and financial in nature, dealing with the running of the estate, the tenants` accounts, and the supply of butter, beer and malt, but there are some references to contemporary events such as the South Sea Bubble and the threat of a Spanish invasion. There is a break in the correspondence from 1721 to 1730, and some of the later letters are signed R E.
Letter-book of John Russell of Braidshaw, Writer to the Signet (adrnitted 1711), started in 1700 and continued until 1712, with an almost complete gap between December 1704 and January 1707, and another between November 1707 and May 1709.
The volume contains copies, drafts and summaries of his outgoing letters, and copies of legal and financial documents concerning himself and his sisters. Several letters are addressed to merchants and officials in Rotterdam (where his father had been a merchant) and in other parts of Holland.
Letter-books, sales-books and ledgers of and concerning Alexander Houston and Company, merchants, bankers, and shipowners in Glasgow.
Houston's acted as an ‘entrepôt’ importing sugar, rum, cotton and tobacco from the British West Indies and distributing them to merchants throughout Britain. The return trade consisted of provisions, largely herrings and plantation stores, drawn in from various parts of Britain and occasionally from Western Europe. The papers, especially the letter-books and sales-books, offer a detailed picture of the organisation and price structure of the trade.