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Papers of Studio Alec Finlay.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13459
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 2000-2012, of Studio Alec Finlay, comprising mainly project files and published material including artist books.

Dates: circa 2000-2012

Papers of T [and] T Clark, containing correspondence and business files.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11268
Scope and Contents

Containing papers mostly of 1970-1992, but including some material as early as 1936.

Dates: 1929-1992.

Papers of the Fenwick Weavers' Society.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4702/1-3
Scope and Contents

Records of the Fenwick Weavers' Society, founded in March, 1761 to establish 'proper regulations..amongst us for the better ordering and Government of our said Trade'; the Society had a continuous existence until its dissolution in June, 1873.

Dates: 1761-1873.

Papers of the Saltire Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9393/1-1174
Scope and Contents

Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.

Dates: 1936-1989, undated.

Papers of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3435
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. two minute books, 1923-1949

2. sederunt book, 1932-1949

3. lists, 1924-1949, of officer bearers.

Dates: 1923-1950.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12173
Scope and Contents

Includes titles, minutes, rentals, maps and architectural drawings. Also includes Cromartie Estate correspondence, 1887-1894.

Dates: 1823-1894 and undated.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9285
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts

Dates: 1969-1985.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11288/1-29
Scope and Contents

Includes publicity material and photographs of productions.

Dates: 1980-1993.

Papers of W and R Beveridge, Weavers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5596
Dates: 1869-1895 and undated.

Personal correspondence and papers of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, mostly concerning the Scout movement and other public activities; with papers relating to military service and estate papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6688/1-47
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence and papers, 1929-68, with some estate papers, 1845-1967, of Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, MC KBE KT (1875-1977), 2nd Baron Rowallan, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth (1945-1959), and Governor of Tasmania (1959-1963). The correspondence is concerned mainly with Rowallan's activities in the Scout movement, but includes also some papers relating to his military service in both World Wars, and to his farming activities in Ayrshire. For further biographical details...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1845-1968, undated.

Records, 1833-1937, of Edinburgh cabinetmakers and chairmakers trade unions.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5436
Scope and Contents

With records, 1918-1937, of the Edinburgh United Furniture Trades’ Committee.

Dates: 1833-1937.

Records, kept by James Maclehose, of the activities of the Scottish Alliance of Employers in the Printing and Kindred Trades.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8166/[Printing] 1-623–[Binding] 1-19
Scope and Contents

Two sequences of notebooks, 'Printing' and 'Binding', containing a record compiled by Dr James MacLehose, sometime Trustee of the National Library of Scotland, of the activities of the Scottish Alliance of Employers in the Printing and Kindred Trades.

Each volume includes typescript letters, many as carbon copies, press cuttings and pamphlets all pasted in.

Dates: 1893-1943.

Records of Gall and Inglis, printers and publishers.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14407
Content Description

Ledger containing publication details including print runs, size and number of pages, covering 1840s to 1890s. Also a notebook labelled 'record of publications' containing publication information compiled in 1950 from old records. Also a sheet of paper providing information about dates in the history of the business.

Dates: 1840-1974.

Records of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9416/1-64
Scope and Contents

Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.

Dates: 1786-1981

Records of Kirkliston Reading Room.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5043/1-9
Scope and Contents

The Kirkliston Reading Room was opened for the inhabitants of Kirkliston and district in 1904.

Dates: 1874-1939.

Records of Oliver and Boyd, publishers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14394
Content Description

Publication agreements, 1896-1979.

Dates: 1896-1979

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Ledgers. Account books. 7
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Booksellers and bookselling 6
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Manuscripts. 5
Personal papers. 5
Stock books. Business records. 5
Cashbooks. 4
Drafts. Documents. 4
Inventories. 4
Letters. Correspondence. 4
Microfilms. 4
Notebooks. 4
Notes. 4
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 4
Book industries and trade 3
Catalogues. 3
Lists. 3
Memorandums. 3
Minute books. 3
Receipts. Financial records. 3
Stationers. 3
Typescripts. 3
Contracts. Agreements. 2
Diaries. 2
Proofs. printed matter 2
Registers (lists). 2
Reports. 2
Scripts. Documents 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Advertisements. 1
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
Annual reports. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Auction catalogues. 1
Bankbooks. 1
Biographies. 1
Books 1
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Calculations. 1
Church records. 1
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Daybooks. Bookkeeping records. 1
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Estate records. 1
Excerpts. 1
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Fair copies. 1
Family papers. 1
Genealogies. 1
Invoices. 1
Journals. Accounts. 1
Leaflets. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Melodies. 1
Memoranda Book. 1
Memorandums. Legal documents. 1
Minutes of agreement. Legal instruments. 1
Monreith House. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Dumfries and Galloway. Estate. Longitude: -4.5562. Latitude: 54.7538. 1
Nameplates. 1
Newspapers. 1
Novels. 1
Offprints. 1
Order books. Business records. 1
Orders. Records (documents). 1
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Photographic plates. 1
Plays. 1
Poetry. 1
Positives. Photographs. 1
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Professional papers. 1
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Receipts. Financial records 1
Sales records. Financial records. 1
Sample books 1
Samples. 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Sederunts. Administrative records. 1
Short stories. 1
Sketchbooks 1
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Language
English 80
Undetermined 15
 
Names
John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 4
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 4
John Murray (publishers, London) 3
Morning Star Publications, Edinburgh 3
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 2
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James Dickson and Co, Edinburgh, wholesale stationer 2
T and T Clark, Edinburgh, publishers 2
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Amalgamated Slaters' Society of Scotland 1
Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists 1
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 1
Associated Shipwrights Society, Leith Branch 1
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, Maryhill Branch 1
Balerno Paper Mill Company, Midlothian 1
Bean, William Jackson (arboriculturist and dendrologist) (1863-1947) 1
Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, booksellers and publishers 1
Betjeman, John, Sir (poet) 1
Blanch, Lesley (writer) 1
Border Co-operative Society, Galashiels 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Cadell, family, of Grange 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Campbell, William Kilpatrick, director, Mainstream Publishing, b. 1951. 1
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 1
Central Ironmoulders' Association of Scotland, 1889-1926 1
Chambers, Charles Edward Stuart, editor and publisher, 1859-1936 1
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 1
Charlestown Colliery and Limeworks 1
Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron (art patron and historian) 1
Club Leabhar Ltd, Inverness and Stornoway, Gaelic publishers 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Cromarty Estate 1
Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, auctioneers 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
Edinburgh Printing and Kindred Trades Employers' Association 1
Edinburgh Society of Cabinet and Chair Makers 1
Edinburgh Typographical Society, Press and Machinemen's Section 1
Edinburgh United Furniture Trades’ Committee 1
Federation of Wholesale and Multiple Bakers, Scottish Area 1
Fenwick Weavers Society 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Gairm Publications 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
Gall and Inglis (printers and publishers, Edinburgh.) 1
Gentleman, James, merchant, Edinburgh, d 1854 1
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 1
Gibson, Thomas H, Editor of the "Scots Independent", fl 1925-1974 1
Glasgow and West of Scotland Master Bakers Association 1
Grimble, Arthur Francis, Sir, Knight (colonial governor and ethnographer) (1888-1956) 1
Guild of Insurance Officials, Edinburgh Branch 1
Incorporation of Shoemakers of Linlithgow 1
Ingrams, William Harold (colonial official) (1897-1973) 1
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 (journalist) 1
Ironfounding Workers' Association, 1926-1946 1
J G Thomson and Co, Ltd, Leith, wine and spirit merchants 1
Jabavu, Noni (writer and journalist) (1919-2008) 1
James Thin, Edinburgh (bookseller) 1
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (novelist and screenwriter) (1927-2013) 1
John Bartholomew and Son Ltd (Edinburgh, publishers) 1
Kinross, John Blythe, financier, 1904-1989 1
Kirkliston Reading Room 1
Lancaster, Sir Osbert, Knight, cartoonist, author and critic , 1908-1986: transcriber 1
MacKenzie, Peter, director, Mainstream Publishing, fl. 1970-2015 1
Maclehose, James, James (President of the Federation of Master Printers and Allied Trades of Great Britain) 1
Mainstream Publishing 1
Marchand, Leslie Alexis (literary scholar and Byron biographer) (1900-1999) 1
Masson, David Mather (biographer, literary scholar and editor) 1
Master Printers' Association, Edinburgh Branch 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 1
McEwen and Company, Stirling, perambulator manufacturers 1
Messrs Miller and Richard, Edinburgh, type founders 1
Morrison, Hubert Peter, President of Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, publisher, d 1971 1
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (physician and author) (1857-1949) 1
Murphy, Dervla (cyclist and author) 1
Murray, John Arnaud Robin (publisher (VI), formerly Grey) (1909-1993) 1
National Party of Scotland 1
National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Edinburgh Branch 1
Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, publishers and printers 1
Origo, Iris Margaret, Dame (writer and historian, née Cutting) 1
Payn, James, 1830-1898 (novelist and editor) 1
R and R Clark Limited, Edinburgh, printers 1
Raymond Private Press, Cullen 1
Sagan, Françoise (French novelist and dramatist) (1935-2004) 1
Saltire Society 1
Scots National League 1
Scottish Alliance of Employers in the Printing and Kindred Trades 1
Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse 1
Scottish Craft Centre 1
Scottish Home Rule Association 1
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish National Union of Cabinet and Chairmakers 1
Scottish News Enterprises Ltd, publishers 1
Scottish Newspaper Proprietors' Association 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Sim, William, colour manufacturer, b 1843 1
Society of Master Printers of Scotland 1
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