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Papers of and concerning Captain Archibald D Cochrane.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10218
Scope and Contents

Concerns his careers in the navy and politics.

Dates: circa 1899-circa 1963.

Papers of and concerning Margaret Macpherson Grant.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8054
Scope and Contents

Comprising cash books, accounts, legal documents, and correspondence, including letters concerning sugar estates in Jamaica owned by her.

Dates: 1848-1878.

Papers of Banff Town Council.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8130-8169
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise mainly applications from miscellaneous private individuals, mostly for charity or redress, to the town officers. There is also a quantity of financial papers, including bills and receipts from townsmen, and notes of council expenditure.

Dates: 1670-1832.

Papers of Canongate Press.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11197

Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9977/1-63
Scope and Contents

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: 1830-1983.

Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.

Dates: 1918-1989, undated.

Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907-1913.

Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.7201-7515
Scope and Contents George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates: 1804-1872, undated.

Papers of George Scott-Moncrieff (1910-1974).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26941-26972
Scope and Contents

George Scott-Moncrieff spent much of his childhood in England, but returned to Scotland in the 1930s. His writing covered a wide range of subjects, including architecture, Scottish topography, fiction, drama and religious works, and the last two of these are well represented in his papers.

Dates: 1951-1970, undated.

Papers of James P M Millar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5695
Scope and Contents

Concerning his work for the Labour College movement, and the General Strike in Edinburgh, 1926.

Dates: 1913-1946 and undated.

Papers of John W Stewart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9921
Scope and Contents

Concerning Stewart`s service in Gambia.

Dates: 1939-1953.

Papers of Philip D Thomson relating to Hibernian Football Club.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12436/1-50
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.

Dates: 1990-2005.

Papers of Robert MacIntyre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12509

Papers of Scottish interest, collected by R R Gove-Brown-Henderson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4378
Scope and Contents Comprising:1. letter, 1833, of Sir John Sinclair, on shell marle as manure2. rental, 1782, of the estate of Wattin, Caithness3. printed price list and two invoices, 1849, of Peter Lawson and Son4. list, 19th century, of seeds5. copy (in the hand of the donor) of letter, 1821, of William Stewart, on a new road in Caithness6. printed programme, 1887, of the Royal Naval Review at Spithead7. note book, late 17th...
Dates: late 17th century to 19th century.

Papers of Scottish PEN Centre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11849/1-80
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning international congresses held in Edinburgh in 1950 and 1997. Also containing some earlier material relating to congresses and membership.

Dates: 1981-1996.

Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.11-81.2.38
Scope and Contents

The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.

Dates: 1852-1900.

Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.25276-25758
Scope and Contents The outstanding feature of the archive is the correspondence of Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes (1726-1792) relating to his intellectual pursuits and legal career. But the archive also contains material concerning early eighteenth century Scotland and British politics in the correspondence of the 1st and 2nd Baronets of Hailes; the very rich personal correspondence and journals of Lord Hailes' daughter and heiress, Christian Dalrymple (died 1838); correspondence and papers of...
Dates: 17th century-early 20th century.

Papers of the David Livingstone Documentation Project.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9861
Scope and Contents

Includes Chairman`s file, secretarial correspondence, research correspondence, financial papers and catalogue slips.

Dates: 1973-1989.

Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9930
Scope and Contents

Includes minute books, correspondence and financial records.

Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

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Financial records. 169
Correspondence. 157
Letters. Correspondence. 60
Legal documents. 53
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Receipts. Financial records. 28
Photographs. 26
Accounts. 22
Administrative records. 22
Notes. 22
Family papers. 21
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Estate records. 20
Typescripts. 20
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Lists. 18
Poetry. 18
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Reports. 15
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Diaries. 13
Minute books. 11
Notebooks. 11
Articles. 10
Genealogies. 9
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Publications. 9
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Personal papers. 8
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Documents. 7
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Catalogues. 6
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Deeds. Legal documents. 6
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Microfilms. 6
Annual reports. 5
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Saltire Society 6
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 2
Farquhar, Ronald Middleton, Minister of Monigaff, 1929-1986 2
Forbes, family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo 2
Gordon, family, of Halmyre and Gordonstoun 2
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MacTaggart, Sir William, Knight, painter, 1903-1981 2
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 2
Rutherfurd, family, of Edgerston 2
Stuart Forbes, family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo 2
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 2
African Lake Company Limited, logistics and shipping 1
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 1
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Argyll Publishing (Glendaruel) 1
Associated Shipwrights Society, Leith Branch 1
Balerno Paper Mill Company, Midlothian 1
Baring, Lady Harriet Mary, 1st wife of 2nd Baron Ashburton, née Montagu, 1805-1857 1
Baring, Louisa Caroline, 2nd wife of 2nd Baron Ashburton, née Stewart-Mackenzie, 1827-1903 1
Baring, William Bingham, 2nd Baron Ashburton (succeeded 1848), 1799-1864 1
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 1
Beneficent Society of Bo'ness 1
Blair, family, of Adamton 1
Border Counties Co-operative Conference Association 1
Bruce, Alexander Low, Deputy-Chairman of William Younger and Company, brewers, 1839-1893 1
Caithness Flagstone Co 1
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 1
Carlyle, John Aitken, physician, 1801-1879 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 1
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841 1
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 1
Church of Scotland 1
Clinton, Margery (ceramist) 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Archibald Douglas, Knight, Captain, Royal Navy, Governor of Burma, 1885-1958 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
David Livingstone Documentation Project 1
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 1
Dunbartonshire Conservative and Unionist Association 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dunn, Ian Campbell, lesbian and gay rights campaigner, townplanner, 1943-1998 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1
Edinburgh Christian Council for Overseas Students 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
Elliot, Arthur Ralph Douglas, Hon (politician and journalist) 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Gerry, James, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gerry, William, Thurso, fl 1855-1918 1
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877 1
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877: recipient 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Graham, family, of Airth 1
Grant, Margaret Gordon Macpherson, of Aberlour, fl 1848-1878 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Gray, family, of Carntyne and Anstruther 1
Gray, family, of Kilmany 1
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, nobleman and aviator, 1903-1973 1
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Hay, family, of Hayfield 1
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, painter, 1786-1846 1
Henderson, R R Gore-Brown-, Balerno, fl 1967: collector 1
Hibernian Football Club, Edinburgh 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Imperial British East Africa Company, land manangement company 1
Innerleithen Co-operative Society, 1854-1969 1
Irvine, Archibald Clive, medical missionary, Kenya, 1893-1974 1
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 1
J and R Glen, highland bagpipe makers 1
James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh, printers 1
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 1
John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 1
Lothians Coursing Club 1
MacIntyre, Robert Douglas, President of the Scottish National Party, 1913-1998 1
MacTaggart, Fanny Margarethe Basilier, wife of Sir William, painter, née Aavatsmark, d 1981 1
MacTaggart, Hugh Holmes, mechanical engineer, fl 1872-1925 1
Macdonald, John (Lieutenant-Colonel, military engineer, son of Flora Macdonald) 1
Marr, W A L, India, tea planter, fl 1927-1970 1
Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, 7th Bart., of Monreith, 1845-1937. 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McLean, Allan Campbell, novelist, 1922-1989 1
McTaggart, William, painter, 1835-1910 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Millar, James Primrose Morton, General Secretary of the National Council of Labour Colleges, 1893-1989 1
Milne, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Inveresk, Admiral, 1806-1896 1
Milne, Sir David, Knight, Admiral, 1763-1845 1
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 1
Murray, James Robert Erskine-, physicist, 1868-1927 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Independent Order of Oddfellows 1
National Union of Mineworkers, Fife Area 1
New Club, North Berwick, golf club 1
Nicholas, Donald Louis, editor, fl 1956: collector 1
North Berwick Golf Club 1
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