Prospectuses.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents designed to inform prospective investors or patrons, consisting of a formal summary of a proposed commercial, literary, or other venture, or a description of the features or services of an institution or business.
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of John Blythe Kinross, relating to various financial undertakings., 1927-1969.
File
Identifier: Acc.8699/19
Scope and Contents
Containing:British Corosit Button Co: copies of a speech made by Kinross at a creditors’
and shareholders’ meeting, 1931.Old Gate Estates Ltd: transcript of the evidence of Kinross in the case against the valuers Topliss, Harding and Russell, 1939.Crown Flour Mills: Printed report and accounts, 1939, 1942.Public Benefit Boot Co: Printed note concerning the board, ca. 1940.Col W A Bristow, the inventor of coalite: Autographed copy...
Dates:
1927-1969.
Papers of John Rennie concerning harbours in places beginning Ay-Br., 1771-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.19789
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Ayr, copy of a report by John Smeaton, 1771, printed Acts of Parliament, 1772, 1794, and correspondence, 1805, (folio 1);
(ii) Balbriggan, correspondence, 1818, 1820 (folio 32);
(iii) Barton Ferry, correspondence, 1817 (folio 47);
(iv) Belfast, reports and letter, 1815, 1817, 1821 (folio 50);
(v) Berwick, estimate and correspondence, 1807-1814, 1817, 1820-1821 (folio 74);
(vi) Boston, parliamentary bill, 1812, letter, 1821. Further papers mentioning this...
Dates:
1771-1821.
Papers of Robert Moir., 1537-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) A psalm setting by Robert Moir written on two leaves cut out of MS.21774 after folio 17 and pasted to a larger sheet of stiff paper. (Folio 1.)(ii) Extracts from newspapers and other periodical publications concerning musical topics published between 1852 and 1862 (and some from earlier sources), written on twenty-five printed bifolia (from a larger number) containing a prospectus and a subscription list for ‘Beauties of the Bible’ by...
Dates:
1537-1862, undated.
Portion of the autobiography of George Miller, bookseller in Haddington and Dunbar, covering the years 1803 to 1818.
File
Identifier: MS.5409
Scope and Contents
Some leaves are missing at the beginning and end of the volume.
Inserted are some letters to George Miller, printed prospectuses, subscription sheets, etc.
Dates:
[1818, or after.]
Press cuttings and other printed items relating to James Leslie Mitchell., 1918-1972.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10966/41-47
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Includes personal documents, publishing agreements, royalty statements and related correspondence. These papers are mostly concerned with the administration of James Leslie Mitchell's (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) literary estate following his death in 1935, firstly by his wife, Ray Mitchell, and subsequently by his daughter, Rhea Martin.
Dates:
1918-1972.
Printed and miscellaneous items., 1839-1983.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9977/56-63
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dates:
1839-1983.
Printed papers, chiefly prospectuses and reports, of the African Lakes Corporation and the Imperial British East Africa Company, and printed maps of Africa, especially Nyasaland., 1879-1899.
File
Identifier: MS.8021
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Printed papers of the African Lakes Corporation (folio 1);
Printed papers of the Imperial British East Africa Company (folio 41);
Printed maps of Africa, especially Nyasaland (folio 50).
Dates:
1879-1899.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Miscellaneous foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
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Printed papers concerning foreign missions of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Printed papers concerning foreign missions of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches., Late 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8021-8022
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are arranged as follows: MS.8012-8014. Scottish Missionary Society; MS.8015-8016. East Africa Scottish Mission; MS.8017. Madras Christian College; MS.8018-8019. Scottish Churches Mission Board. MS.8020. Arouca. MS.8021-8022. Printed papers.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates:
1777-1831, undated.
Prospectuses and other papers relating to the Cheviot Trust run by John Blythe Kinross, from 1934. Also containing a Covenant Trust prospectus, 1936, and a Montrose Trust issue, 1939., 1934-1939.
File
Identifier: Acc.8699/12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates:
1934-1939.
Prospectuses, correspondence, and other papers relating to the Gresham Trust., Circa 1927-1933.
File
Identifier: Acc.8699/11
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates:
Circa 1927-1933.
Reports, papers and related correspondence concerning nature conservation., 1972-1978.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9588/71-83
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence and papers of George McArthur Lawson (1906-78). From 1937 to 1940 he was a full-time National Council of Labour Colleges tutor in the East of Scotland, and served as the West of Scotland National Council of Labour Colleges Organiser from 1940-50 when he was appointed Secretary of Edinburgh and District Trades Council. In 1954 he was elected as Labour MP for Motherwell, and represented Motherwell, and Motherwell and Wishaw, until his retirement in Oct 1974. George Lawson served...
Dates:
1972-1978.
"Suitable Christmas Gift Books"., 1924
Item
Identifier: Acc.13328/1158
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series comprises original print prospectuses for an assortment of reprint series introduced by John Murray publishers as a means of selling remaindered titles at lower prices. These include: "Murray’s Imperial Library"; "Murray’s Library"; "Murray’s Cheap Fiction Library"; and "Murray's Shilling Library". Also included are prospectuses for Murray's Theological Literature list; Murray's Selected Stock list; Murray’s Colonial Trade list; Murray’s Illustrated list; and Murray’s...
Dates:
1924