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Minutes. Administrative records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of what was said and done at meetings or conferences.

Found in 965 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript minutes of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., 1934-1945.

 Item
Identifier: MS.21590
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: 1934-1945.

Volume containing a brief account of the formation of the Belles-Lettres Society, Edinburgh, in January 1759 (folio 1) and minutes of its meetings until 29 May 1761 written in the hands of its successive secretaries.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.4
Scope and Contents

The minutes of most of the meetings from 30 March 1759 are signed by the president, who was elected for the evening.

Dates: 1759-1761.

Volume containing printed papers concerning claims to the Earldom of Perth., 1794, 1840 x 1848.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.33
Scope and Contents

The papers are as follows:

(i) ‘Case of James Drummond ... claiming the title ... of Earl of Perth’ (1794).

(ii) ‘Case on behalf of George Drummond, Duke de Melfort, in France claiming to be Earl of Perth’ (1840 x 1848).

(iii) ‘Minutes of Evidence ... [in] the Petition of George Drummond Duke de Melfort in France ... claiming the Honour and Dignity of Earl of Perth’ (1846).

Dates: 1794, 1840 x 1848.

Volume of copies and extracts apparently made for William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.8
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy of the accounts of Robert Lord Boyd, Collector General of Thirds, for the year 1576, covering Kirklands in Inverness, Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, Fife, Strathearn, Nairn, Banff, Elgin, and Forres (folio 1).(ii) Minutes extracted from the Exchequer Register, covering the periods July 1630 to November 1634 (folio 73), January 1642 to June 1647 (folio 104 verso), and July 1661 to June 1674 (folio 116)....
Dates: 1576-1684.

Volumes of annual balance sheets of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch', 1868-1938, containing minutes of meetings of Partners, 25 May 1868-6 October 1880., 1868-1938.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/12-13
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates: 1868-1938.

Working copy of volume II of the `Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the several matters relating to coal in the United Kingdom`., 1868-1871.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.51.1.5