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Invoices.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents showing items supplied, together with the prices charged for each; also, itemized bills or accounts.

Found in 249 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous Airth household papers, chiefly financial papers and correspondence., 1729-1847.

 File
Identifier: MS.10902
Scope and Contents The papers consist of:(i) Accounts, 1817-1835, of meat for the house, (folio 1);(ii) Milk-book, 1842-1843, undated (folio 39);(iii) Miscellaneous small household account-books, 1842-1846 (folio 81);(iv) Household bills, 1808, paid by the groom (folio 136);(v) Miscellaneous household papers, 1729, 1732, 1752, 1785, 1794, 1802-1847, undated, including inventories of wine, silver, linen, clothes, china, and books (folio 156);...
Dates: 1729-1847.

Miscellaneous and other receipt files of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited., 1956-1971.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10555/146-157
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1956-1971.

Miscellaneous bills and receipts concerning Thomas Telford., 1820-1822, 1825-1834, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19974
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers consist of business correspondence, draft reports, accounts and other papers relating to Thomas Telford's professional activities for the last decade of his life, as well as correspondence and some drafts relating to the 'Life of Thomas Telford civil engineer' itself. The business papers relate mainly to Scottish undertakings and to harbours, canals and fen drainage, with some personal and professional accounts. The collection is roughly half of the material which survived in John...
Dates: 1820-1822, 1825-1834, undated.

Miscellaneous English bills and receipts., 1689-1698.

 File
Identifier: MS.14631
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Various bills and receipts at London and Tunbridge Wells, 1689-1693 (folio 1);

(ii) Tradesmen's bills for provisions, 1693-1695, arranged as follows: bread (folio 143); pastries (folio 166); meat (folio 168); poultry (folio 184); vegetables (folio 199); wine (folio 215); ale (folio 218); coals (folio 224); cloth (folio 229);

(iii) Coachmaker's bills, 1698, to Lord David Hay of Belton (folio 230).

Dates: 1689-1698.

Miscellaneous English financial papers., 1686-1691.

 File
Identifier: MS.14630
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts of expenses, 1686, of the Earl and Countess of Roxburghe (folio 1);(ii) Notes to tradesmen, April 1686 (folio 3);(iii) Freight bill, May 1686, for goods from London to Leith (folio 8);(iv) Accounts, October 1689, of furnishings and household goods to be sent to London, or bought or hired in London (folio 9);(v) 'The charge of David Halon book', 1689-1690 (folio 18).(vi) Monthly...
Dates: 1686-1691.

Miscellaneous financial papers of John Richardson and Company., 1756-1820, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20975-20981
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The early volumes are general account books, but from 1800 the financial side was divided into three branches. The ledgers, journals, and waste books concerning shipping are distinguished by a letter, those for fish curing by a number, and those for fishing by neither.

Dates: 1756-1820, undated.

Miscellaneous legal and personal accounts, bills and receipts of the Elliot family of Minto., 1696-1776.

 File
Identifier: MS.11027
Scope and Contents From the Series: This section consists of the personal, political and official correspondence and papers of the Elliots of Minto up to and including the 3rd Baronet, but chiefly of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), and of his son Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722-1777). The former was Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire and served as Lord Justice Clerk from 1763; the latter was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire, 1753-1765, and for Roxburghshire, 1765-1777, and served as Lord of the...
Dates: 1696-1776.

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 File
Identifier: MS.500
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Ordinance of the Committee of War of the Sheriffdom of Fife on the arming of heritors within the Presbytery of Cupar, 1644 (folio 1);(ii) Information for John Balfour, probably Portioner of Kinloch (died 1651), regarding the succession to certain lands of Christian Williamson, daughter of John Williamson and Helen Balfour, 1644 (folio 2);(iii) Breakfast bill of ‘Langshaw’ [? David Montgomery of Lainshaw], receipted by Thomas...
Dates: 1644-1760, undated.

Miscellaneous letters, including one of the Comte de Mirabeau to Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto., 1784-1877.

 File
Identifier: MS.19574
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) A letter of Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, to Gilbert Elliot, later 1st Earl of Minto, 1784, written during a period of residence by Mirabeau in England (folio 1);(ii) A letter to and a note of the 1st Earl, undated, with a printed proclamation as Governor-General, Madras, September 1809, concerning the Courts Martial of the Madras Army officer mutineers (folio 3);(iii) Miscellaneous letters, some fragmentary...
Dates: 1784-1877.

Miscellaneous papers and correspondence of and concerning Lady Hislop., 1806-1851, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.13140
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous papers of Lady Hislop, 1806-1851, undated; (ii) Correspondence, chiefly family, of Admiral Sir Charles Elliot 1839-1865 (folio 101); (iii) Correspondence and papers of Gilbert Elliot, Dean of Bristol, 1843-1856 (folio 168).

Dates: 1806-1851, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club., 1854-1969, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.24646
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Secretary's Reports, 1888-1897, with Reports of Committees, 1881, 1895 (folio 1); (ii) Letters of Thomas Paterson, Club Secretary, 1881 (folio 30); (iii) Miscellaneous bills, 1854-1874 (folio 36); (iv) Miscellaneous papers, 1863-1969, undated, including notes on days of skating in seasons 1863-1878, a Prospectus for the Murrayfield Skating Company, 1881, and a club song, 1881.

Dates: 1854-1969, undated.

Miscellaneous papers relating to militia, and correspondence and papers relating to county affairs., 1746-1827.

 File
Identifier: MS.10896
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Miscellaneous papers relating to militia, including clothing bills and receipts, muster rolls, commissions, etc., 1746, 1778, 1803-1827, undated (folio 1);(ii) Correspondence and papers relating to county affairs: letters of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet of Duntreath, M.P. for Stirlingshire, to Thomas Graham Stirling, 1811-1819 (folio 61); papers relating to the Corn Law, 1810, 1814 (folio 122); papers relating to the property...
Dates: 1746-1827.

Miscellaneous personal papers of James Stuart., 1773-1791, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8437
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The papers chiefly refer to James Stuart's stay in India as an officer (later Commander-in-Chief) of the forces of the East India Company based at Fort St George (Madras). The most detailed portions of the papers cover the year immediately prior to Stuart's dismissal from the Company's service in 1783. Stuart appears to have retained these papers as justification of his actions and as a defence against accusations of inefficiency. He made different sets of copies of much of his...
Dates: 1773-1791, undated.

Miscellaneous small bills and receipts, 1968-1973, and bank statements, 1973-1976, of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, 1968-1976.

 File
Identifier: MS.21608
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: 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: 1968-1976.