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Minute books.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 210 Collections and/or Records:

Annual Reports, accounts and minutes of North Berwick Golf Club.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13228
Scope and Contents North Berwick Golf Club was formed on 8th May 1832 to play over the links there. The original course of 6/7 holes was extended to 12 in 1869-70 taking over the Park to the west. In 1877, the Club acquired the right to play over part of the Dirleton estate. This became known as the Private Golf Links or Greens. From the earliest days, the members of the Club dined together after their matches and, in 1879, it was resolved to build a Clubhouse by the links. The committee formed to oversee this...
Dates: 1984 to 2005.

Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Book of sederunt of the administrators of the charitable Contributions for the relief of the indigent Episcopal clergy and their widows.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.1
Scope and Contents

The volume contains minutes of meetings, which were held at the Exchange Coffee House, Edinburgh, and the decisions of the administrators about requests for assistance, and lists (in three categories) the names of those to be assisted. The entries as far as 17 March 1758 (folio 16) are in the hand of William Gordon, bookseller, Edinburgh, who appears to have presented the volume to the Charity (folio 1).

Dates: 1754-1788.

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.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5277
Scope and Contents

Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1879-1897, circa 1940-1971.

Facsimile of the minute-book, 1771-1792, of the Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian), and related papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1843
Scope and Contents

Also included are accounts, 1771-1785 (folio 72, inverted), and the first three pages of the second minute book, 1793-1794, 1824.

This is one of several facsimile copies made in 1893 to the order of the Society, for distribution to members.

Dates: 1771-1794, 1824.

Instructions, 1579, of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms, to heralds, and a minute-book of executions, 1608-1609, by Thomas Lamb, Messenger-at-arms.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.12
Scope and Contents ‘Instructions set forth by Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms and his brethrene heralds at speall comand of my Lords Regent and Lords of secret counsall to be observit be ye officiare of armes within this realme in all tymes cumy for dew service to our soverane Lord and his Leidgis at Ed[r], the secund day of Jannuar 1577’. The five first pages are written in the same hand.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the...
Dates: 1579, 1608-1609.

Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1-67
Scope and Contents

Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.

Dates: 1760-1838.

Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10431
Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates: 1697-1698, 1817-1893.

Microfilm of minute book and scrapbook of the Union Society of Journeyman Bookbinders.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.239
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Minute book, 3 April 1882-1884, 1862, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders of Edinburgh (Acc.4395, number 1);

Scrapbook, 1822-1874, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders, containing correspondence, rulebooks, etc. (Acc.4395, number 26).

Dates: 1822-1874.