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Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
File
Identifier: F.R.341
Dates:
1819-1879.
Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11878
Scope and Contents
Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.
Dates:
1812-1831.
Letters to, and drafts of replies of, John Cay, the Convenor of the Finance Committee of the Faculty of Advocates, and other papers.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/12
Dates:
1833-1838.
Minutes, accounts, and miscellaneous papers of the Edinburgh Skating Club.
Series
Identifier: MSS.24641-24649
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh Skating Club was clearly well-established in 1784 when the first minute book starts. Apart from a few years of inactivity the Club flourished until the early 1900's when combined figure-skating declined in popularity. It was finally dissolved in 1966. Although the Club attracted a large proportion of its members from the legal profession, the Edinburgh Skating Club was not socially exclusive and the membership lists include local noblemen, merchants, army offers and a slater....
Dates:
1784-1966, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/51
Scope and Contents
The papers include the following: Binding (1848), Sale of duplicates (1823), Cataloguing of manuscripts (circa 1839), Booklists (1832-1834), Faculty's collection of coins (1840), Music (1830-1833), Engraved portraits for sale (1824), Newspapers (1831, 1877), Booklets (1832-1834).
Dates:
1824-1881.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
Series
Identifier: MS.10335
Dates:
1651-1907, undated.
Series of large folio volumes with copies of documents, including legal opinions, accounts and warrants relating to the administration of the customs and excise in England and Scotland; and copies of Scottish Court of Exchequer correspondence, minutes, reports and accounts relating to the Court`s administration of the forfeited estates.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.28.1.2-28.1.7
Dates:
1705-1773.