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Copy of “The Royal Naval Engineers` Note Book” by John R Harvey (Chatham, 1889), in which are written lists of Scottish topographical works arranged in order of county, followed by a list of family histories.
The lists appear to have been compiled about 1896 in the Advocates` Library and kept up until about 1903, which appears to be the latest date quoted.
Corrections and additions by the first Earl of Cromer in an advance proof of a speech he afterwards delivered on Free Trade and Protection to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Unionist Free Trade Club on 10 January 1908.
Also included are three letters to the donor, James MacLehose, the Glasgow printer (including one from Lord Cromer accompanying the corrected proof), the final printed copy of the speech and the menu and toast list of the luncheon at which the speech was delivered.
Correspondence and papers concerning the Chelsea Reel Club, kept by Hugh Rose Foss.
Correspondence, membership and guest lists, ball programmes, dance cards and notebooks, 1934-ca. 1992, concerning the running of the Chelsea Reel Club and its regular dances and balls.
The archive was maintained by Hugh Rose Foss, better known for his war-time career as a code breaker. The Club was founded by friends of Foss's wife in 1935. Foss initially acted as Vice-Chairman, and became Chairman in 1938.
Correspondence and papers, including lists of ships and memoranda, of the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville, chiefly concerning Admiralty affairs.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of Cecil Hopkinson, containing bibliographies relating to Louis-Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi, and other related material.
Concerning Hopkinson`s bibliographies of Berlioz and Verdi.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie.
Correspondence and papers of George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.
The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.
Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.
Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General G H Hutton concerning his researches into the ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland.
Correspondence and papers of Mark Sprot of Garnkirk and his family.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Correspondence and papers of Sir William S Haldane of Foswell, Writer to the Signet, as Crown Agent for Scotland.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees.
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council, mostly concerning missions and churches in Africa and Jamaica.
The African section of the archive of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council, 1965-75 (with some earlier material). This deposit also includes material relevant to Jamaica (1938-1966).
Correspondence and papers of the Edinburgh International Festival Society.
Includes administrative papers and photographs.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly concerning donations.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning borrowers and a list of defaulters.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library relating to Wodrow manuscripts and pamphlets
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
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.