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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 the family of Dundas of Dundas.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates: 16th century-1924.

Photographs of the journal of John Ballantyne.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1812
Scope and Contents

From folio 97 onward the journal pages are filled with lists of expenses, profit and loss accounts, and notes of business with clients: these include copies of agreements with Archibald Constable & Company, concerning the publication of Sir Walter Scott's ‘Kenilworth’, ‘The monastery’, and ‘The pirate’.

Dates: 1819-1821.

Political papers, including correspondence, press cuttings, and minutes, of Frank Yeaman, with some personal and miscellaneous papers. Also included is material relating to the early days of the Scottish National Party.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12944/1-41
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a mixture of personal (1931-1942) and political papers (1935-1985). The political papers reflect his activity as SNP candidate for East Edinburgh at the 1945 general election as well as his involvement in nationalist politics in Scotland and particularly in Edinburgh. It also contains material relating to the early days of the SNP, including organizational records of the party and an interesting group of newsletters and nationalist literature dealing with a broad...
Dates: Circa 1930-1985.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

Typescripts, manuscripts, research notes, correspondence and other papers of Duncan Fraser and of Standard Press publishers, Montrose.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8058/1-239
Scope and Contents

Including corrected typescripts and proofs of historical and topographical works, and circa 400 letters and copies of letters.

With papers, 1928-1959, of the Standard Press, Montrose.

Dates: 1765-1983.

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Financial records. 25
Correspondence. 16
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Genealogies. 5
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Contracts. Agreements. 4
Excerpts. 4
Minutes. Administrative records. 4
Speeches. Documents. 4
Abstracts. Summaries. 3
Catalogues. 3
Estimates. Financial records. 3
Fragments. 3
Histories. 3
Indexes. Reference sources. 3
Leases. Contracts. 3
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 3
Publications. 3
Reports. 3
Transcripts. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Administrative records. 2
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Biographies. 2
Calculations. 2
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Cheques. 2
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Journals. Accounts. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
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Receipts. Financial records 2
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Reports 2
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Songs. Musical compositions. 2
Tables of contents. 2
Abridgements. Versions of documents. 1
Account books. 1
Accounts of intromissions. 1
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Advertisements. 1
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Bankbooks. 1
Bonds of association. 1
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Covers (gathered matter components). 1
Daybooks. Bookkeeping records. 1
Decisions. Judicial records. 1
Declarations. 1
Decrees arbitral. Legal instruments. 1
Deeds. Legal documents. 1
Discharges. Legal Documents. 1
Documents. 1
Estate records. 1
Fair copies. 1
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Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 1
Indictments. Legal documents. 1
Indulgences. Documents. 1
Instructions. Document genre. 1
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English 14
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Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 2
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841 1
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1