Account books.
Found in 184 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, papers and personal account-books of Charles Herries, a merchant in London who was Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, and correspondence and papers of his younger son, Lieutenant-General Sir William Lewis Herries and of, and concerning, other members of the family.
Diary and account book, August-November 1769, written by a tutor of Sir John Scott of Ancrum.
The writer was probably Alexander Pringle of Whytbank (died 1772), handwriting having characteristics similar to those of MS.9365: Rental of the estate of Whytbank, Selkirkshire.
The volume contains brief notes on the weather and the writer's daily affairs, with particular reference to property in Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, and entries for small items of expenditure.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Edinburgh Opera Company.
Minutes, accounts and members' lists, 1948-1954, of the Edinburgh Opera Company. The Edinburgh Opera Company was founded in 1920 and was in existence until 1981. The first meeting in the minute book, 25 October 1948, records the reconstitution of the Company with new links to the Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee, which had started a new Institute of Music at Broughton High School.
Estate account book, concerning the lands in East Lothian and Berwickshire, of Sir John Hall of Dunglass.
Estate account book kept by Alexander Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1732) and his son, John Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1778) recording accounts of charge and discharge, and of rent, 1689-1631, and accounts of money received from tenants, 1733-1777.
Estate account books for the 7th Earl of Haddington.
Estate rental and account book of the Rose family lands in Nairn and eastern Invernesshire, partly written by Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755).
Payments are in cash and kind including sheep, poultry and tallow, and contributions towards minister's stipends are also recorded.
Farm account book, 1729-1770, dealing largely with crops and wages on the farms of Congaiton Mains and Carperstane in East Lothian, by various members of the Begbie family, with a few entries added by a later generation in the 1790s.
Farm account book of John Douglas, advocate, 11th of Tilquhillie (1708-1791) for Mains of Inchmarlo, in the parish of Banchory-Teman.
The book contains accounts of labourers’ and servants' wages; details of crop sowing and reaping; notes on purchase and sale of sheep and cattle; weather conditions and harvests; detailed accounts for building of an addition to the house (folios10 verso-12).