Financial records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents pertaining to money matters.
Found in 271 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1907-1913.
Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.7201-7515
Scope and Contents
George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates:
1804-1872, undated.
Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26972
Scope and Contents
George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.
Dates:
1951-1970, undated.
Papers of Joan Gibson relating to her involvement with Engender and other women's organisations.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14055/1-47
Scope and Contents
The papers include administrative papers of Engender, a national research and campaigning membership organisation for women in Scotland, and antecedent groups and conferences including the Scottish Convention on Women.
Dates:
1974-2008.
Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer, and his son, Sir John Rennie (1794-1874).
Series
Identifier: MSS.19966-19968
Dates:
1788-1829.
Papers of Margery Clinton, potter, containing correspondence, financial records, working papers and other related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11283/1-49
Dates:
1969-1995.
Papers of Philip D Thomson relating to Hibernian Football Club.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12436/1-50
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.
Dates:
1990-2005.
Papers of Pocketbooks, publishers, and financial papers of Morning Star Publications.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12109
Dates:
1999-2002.
Papers of Scottish interest, collected by R R Gove-Brown-Henderson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4378
Scope and Contents
Comprising:1. letter, 1833, of Sir John Sinclair, on shell marle as manure2. rental, 1782, of the estate of Wattin, Caithness3. printed price list and two invoices, 1849, of Peter Lawson and Son4. list, 19th century, of seeds5. copy (in the hand of the donor) of letter, 1821, of William Stewart, on a new road in Caithness6. printed programme, 1887, of the Royal Naval Review at Spithead7. note book, late 17th...
Dates:
late 17th century to 19th century.
Papers of Scottish PEN Centre.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11849/1-80
Scope and Contents
Includes papers concerning international congresses held in Edinburgh in 1950 and 1997. Also containing some earlier material relating to congresses and membership.
Dates:
1981-1996.
Papers of Sir Robert Strange, the engraver, and his brother-in-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, encompassing the period from the '45 Rebellion to the early 19th century, with some earlier family documents and later genealogical material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14253-14269
Dates:
1655-1955, undated.
Papers of Sir William MacTaggart, and of his wife Fanny.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8636
Dates:
1931-1980.
Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.11-81.2.38
Scope and Contents
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Dates:
1852-1900.
Papers of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Edinburgh 1st Branch.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.122- is now Acc.4685.
Dates:
1866-1966.
Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.25276-25758
Scope and Contents
The outstanding feature of the archive is the correspondence of Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes (1726-1792) relating to his intellectual pursuits and legal career. But the archive also contains material concerning early eighteenth century Scotland and British politics in the correspondence of the 1st and 2nd Baronets of Hailes; the very rich personal correspondence and journals of Lord Hailes' daughter and heiress, Christian Dalrymple (died 1838); correspondence and papers of...
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Papers of the David Livingstone Documentation Project.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9861
Scope and Contents
Includes Chairman`s file, secretarial correspondence, research correspondence, financial papers and catalogue slips.
Dates:
1973-1989.
Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9930
Scope and Contents
Includes minute books, correspondence and financial records.
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Papers of the Edinburgh Branch of the Scottish Slaters` Section of the Transport and General Workers` Union.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12076
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes, correspondence, financial records and printed material.
Dates:
1858-1977.
Papers of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21580-21668
Scope and Contents
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
1887-1982.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30
Scope and Contents
The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...
Dates:
1639-1789.
Papers of the Faculty of Advocates concerning James Sutherland.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/5
Dates:
1692-1808.
Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents
The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates:
16th century-1924.
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates:
18th century-20th century.