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Memorandums.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents recording information used for internal communication.

Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26276-26300
Scope and Contents

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1928-1966, undated.

Papers of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council relating to Yemen and India.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10130/1-48
Scope and Contents

Papers, chiefly minutes and committee proceedings, of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council relating to Yemen and India.

Dates: 1939-1987.

Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates: 1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.

Papers of the family of Graham of Airth.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12290
Scope and Contents

Includes papers of related families including Stirling of Ardoch and Strowan, a family bible and printed material.

Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Papers of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13162
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of five files of general correspondence and papers dated from 1993 and 1997.

Dates: 1993-1997.

Photocopies of a file in the Ministry of Munitions records.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7507
Scope and Contents

Concerning the suppression of the newspaper "Forward" at the instance of the Ministry and opposition on the Clyde to Ministry legislation.

Dates: 1916.

Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.

 Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents

The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.

Dates: 1754-1759.

Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13476/1-319
Scope and Contents John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates: 1927-1978, undated.

Records of Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13302
Scope and Contents

Agendas, minutes of executive committes and annual general meetings, treasurer`s accounts and reports, internal mailings.

Dates: 2003 - 2010

Records of the Edinburgh dining club, The Friday Club, formed in June 1803 and continued until 1850, prefaced by a long autograph memorandum by Lord Cockburn.

 File
Identifier: MS.15943
Scope and Contents

The volume contains accounts kept by John Richardson, original bills from taverns and hotels, and an incomplete series of the club's printed fixture-cards.

Dates: [?1803-?1850.]

Seven diaries of Patrick Cadell, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11641
Scope and Contents

Includes memorandum of matters outstanding on his leaving and a copy of a song, composed and sung by Timothy Lawrence, at Mr Cadell`s leaving party in 1990.

Dates: 1983-1990.

‘Some brief memorials and passages of church and staite for the yeires of God 1639-40-41’ in the hand of Sir James Balfour.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.6
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.7.3.

Dates: 1639-1641.

‘Some short memoires and passages of staite from the 5 July this yeare 1650 to the 18 November this same yeire’.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.8
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.7.7.

Dates: 1650.

‘Some shorte memorials and passages of this yeare 1649’ in the hand of Sir James Balfour.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.7
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: W.7.5.

Dates: 1649.