Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.
Scope and Contents
This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.
Dates
- Creation: 1778-1841.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
341 Volumes ; Each volume contains papers of various sizes, folio and under.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
The general arrangement of the series is chronological, and the letters for each year are grouped under the name of their town of origin; where several merchants write from the same town, they are arranged alphabetically within that group.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1952, by John Telfer Dunbar, Fellow of the Society of Antiquiries (Scotland), Edinburgh.
Separated Materials
For further papers of the firm see MSS.9662-9677.
Bibliography
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Archives and Manuscript Division
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