Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: 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,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: 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,...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: 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,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

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The Whim was a property (also known as Blair Cochrane or Blair Bog) in the north of Peeblesshire, purchased by the Duke of Argyll to provide a residence for himself near Edinburgh. The earlier papers relate largely to the erection of the house (designed by William Adam) and creation of the garden from what had been a peat-bog, the later ones to their maintenance. There are also some concerning coal-mining on the estate and the home-farm.

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The day-books contain notes concerning Scott's health, domestic and estate accounts including doctors' bills, addresses, notes on weather, etc., mingled confusedly together.

Scope and Contents The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The day-books give detailed accounts of experiments and developments in the production of colours using original recipes and ideas from as far afield as Turkey and France. The colours produced were then used to dye for example, cotton, linen, silk, and woollens. Some specimen products are included in the volumes. Six of the Day books, MSS. 17962-7967, relate to Anderston print works, Glasgow, and probably belonged to Patrick Mitchell who was General Manager there until his purchase of the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...