Minute and record book of the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust, kept by its Clerk-Treasurer, K M Oliphant, Writer to the Signet.
Scope and Contents
The Scottish National Library Endowment Trust was established at the Instigation of Hugh P Macmillan King’s Counsel, later Lord Macmillan, its Honorary Secretary, to receive gifts from private individuals towards the establishment of a National Library on the basis of the non-legal collections of the Advocates’ Library. Its most notable receipt, £100,000 from Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Grant in June 1923, made possible the establishment of the Library in 1925.
The volume contains the text of the Trust Deed, registered on 19 March 1923 (pages 1-4); minutes of meetings, May 1923-November 1925 (pages 5-16, 19, 25-26); and accounts, April 1923-October 1925 (pages 17-18, 21-24).
Most of the volume is blank.
Dates
- Creation: 1923-1925.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
113 Leaves ; Folio.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
xxiv + blank pages + 202 pages [pages 27-202 blank].
Other Finding Aids
The volume is prefaced by an alphabetical index.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1981, by the Exchequer Office, Edinburgh, through the good offices of the Keeper of the Records of Scotland.
Separated Materials
Papers relating to the second Alexander Grant benefaction of £100,000 towards a new building for the National Library of Scotland are in MSS.24721-24723; for Lord Macmillan's papers relating to the Trust see MSS.25267-25268.
Genre / Form
- 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
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