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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12384/1-285
Dates: Majority of material found within 1741-1753, 1788-1798, 1801, 1807, 1825-1826, 1836-2004, undated.

Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6660-7000
Scope and Contents

This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.

Dates: 1778-1841.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Manuscripts and papers of and concerning the novelist, Neil Munro (1863-1930).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26901-26937
Scope and Contents

Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

Dates: 1863-1964.

Papers, chiefly financial, of Kinleith Paper Mill.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20671-20751
Scope and Contents

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Dates: 1866-1954.

Papers of W and R Beveridge, Weavers.

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

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.

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Balerno Paper Mill Company, Midlothian 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 1
James Thin, Edinburgh (bookseller) 1