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The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Scope and Contents The journal is preceded by a 'narrative of some part of the management of the said works' from 15 May 1745, a few days before the works were bought by William Grant, until 2 April 1748; with weekly coal bills from 9 August 1745 to 2 April 1748. Weekly salt bills for the same period are not given (see folio 16).The journal from 2 April 1748 (folio 16 verso) contains, in its earlier stages, a considerable amount of technical matter relating to mining. On the financial side, the...

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Includes references to the arrangements for George IV's visit to Scotland in 1822.

Scope and Contents The journal describes a journey from London through Holland to Berlin, Dresden and Vienna, during the first three months of 1844. Bell comments on the architecture and customs of the places he passed through, and on the difficulties of travel. He was keenly interested in paintings and visited several collections, but his primary interest was in medical matters, particularly in Vienna, where he describes the hospitals and criticises their practices. There are a few small sketches and plans,...

Scope and Contents The Braids Schoolboys` Meeting was a combined chapel meeting group for pupils of the five preparatory academies of greater Edinburgh, including Merchiston Castle School, which William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn had attended.The journal is divided into the following sections:Names and addresses of Boys. Folios 2-7.Braids Schoolboys` committee, 1913-1914. Folio 3.Committees. Folios 10-12.Record of meetings. Folios 24-26.Record...

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A page from ‘Le Messager’, 21 Avril 1848, has been inserted at the beginning of the journal, which has been left incomplete.

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...

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The collection consists of an autobiography written between the years 1910 and 1921 and a diary kept between 1899-1923. Both series of volumes contain letters, photographs and memorabilia pasted in.

Scope and Contents Edward Theodore Salvesen (1857-1942) was the son of Christian Frederick Salvesen (1827-1911), the Norwegian born founder of the Salvesen shipping company of Leith. He was educated at Edinburgh University and called to the Scottish Bar in 1880, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1899. As a Liberal Unionist candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituencies of Leith Burghs in 1900 and Bute in 1905. He was Sheriff of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire and Selkirkshire from 1901-1905...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...

Scope and Contents Ernest James Harris spent his working life as a banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was a branch manager in Leith and later for many years in Haddington. In the early 1970s, he represented the Bank in New York. The journals provide a detailed record of family holidays, generally by caravan, over more than thirty years. They are illustrated with pasted in specifications of caravans owned by the family, leaflets and plans of caravan sites visited, photographs, postcards,...

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The journals cover the years 1760-1813, with gaps from 1761-1865 and 1778-1781.

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The journals cover the years 1760-1813, with gaps from 1761-1865 and 1778-1781.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The journals cover the years 1760-1813, with gaps from 1761-1865 and 1778-1781.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The journals cover the years 1760-1813, with gaps from 1761-1865 and 1778-1781.