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13 diaries and letterbooks of James Gilliland Simpson, merchant, and his wife Jane née Horsburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12489
Scope and Contents

Includes a related typescript, circa 1985, of John Home Simpson.

Dates: 1800-1851.

Business papers of James Dickson and Co.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9500
Scope and Contents

Includes letter book, stock inventories, account books and price book.

Dates: 1818-1932.

Business records, 1869-1892, of Walter Duncan, tea merchant in India, with his school copybook, 1846, printed sermon, 1900, from his funeral oration, with typescript and manuscript notes concerning his life.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13232
Scope and Contents Walter Duncan (1834 – 1900) began his career in the office of a Glasgow firm of merchants, Messrs. Playfair, Bryce and Co., possibly in 1855 or early 1856. After a short spell in Demerara working for Playfair, Allan and Co., a merchant company run by Patrick Playfair but not connected in a business way with Playfair, Bryce and Co., he returned to Glasgow in 1858. At this point Patrick Playfair offered him a prospective partnership to establish a business in Kolkata, India, under the name...
Dates: 1846-1900.

Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1752-2002, undated.

Copies of letters of William Porteous to James Linn.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7461
Scope and Contents

Mostly on personal matters.

Dates: 1860-1863.

Correspondence and letter books of Duncan MacKinnon.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6168/1-15
Scope and Contents In connection mainly with the British India Steam Navigation Company.This collection consists of the incoming correspondence and letter books of Duncan Mackinnon, a partner in MacKinnon, Mackenzie, and Co, of Calcutta, the firm from which the British India Steam Navigation Compnay developed. This correspondence covers the years 1873, when MacKinnon returned to India after his marriage, to 1881, and the letter books cover a somewhat longer period from 1871 to 1887. This was the...
Dates: 1873-1887.

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13065/1-76
Scope and Contents The collection reflects Sir Lewis Robertson`s personal and business activities during the later years of his life. The correspondence files, 2003-2008, and letter books, 2004-2008, show his active involvement in many charitable and cultural bodies until his death in November 2008. Of particular interest are several volumes of speeches and interviews, 1989-2003, and three diaries, 1978-1980, dated during his time as Director of the Scottish Development Agency. Sir Lewis Robertson kept an...
Dates: Circa 1940-2008.

Divisional letter book of John Bisset, Commissary-General in Spain.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10322
Scope and Contents

Lacking the last few leaves of text and an unknown number of gatherings of block f.

Dates: 1812.

Letter book, 1808-1819, of William Pattison.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7259
Scope and Contents

With:

two letters, 1835 and 1836, on behalf of the Duke of Sussex to George Home, on matters of patronage

hotel bill, early 19th century, from the Angel Inn, Alnwick.

Dates: circa 1800-1835.

Letter-book containing official copies, in several hands, of correspondence and state papers during the Regency of the Earl of Lennox.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.12
Scope and Contents

The manuscript covers the period from the murder of the Regent Moray in January 1570 until shortly before Regent Lennox`s death early in September 1571.

Dates: 1570-1571.

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Second Jacobite Rebellion (1745). 1
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Lumisden, Andrew, Jacobite politician, antiquary, 1720–1801 3
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh Lodge 2
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008 2
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Scottish Operative Plumbers Protective and Benefit Federal Union, Edinburgh Branch 2
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Foundry Section, 1971-1992 1
Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers, 1946-1971 1
Angel Inn, Alnwick 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Seaforth Highlanders 1
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 1
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, son of King George III, 1773-1843 1
Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, booksellers and publishers 1
Bisset, Sir John, Knight, Commissary-General, 1774-1854 1
Border Co-operative Society, Galashiels 1
Brandi, Bruno, correspondent of Thomas Haldane, scientist, fl 1934-1939 1
Bredon, Sir Robert Edward, Knight, Acting Inspector-General of Customs with rank of Provincial Lieutenant-Governor, 1846-1918 1
British India Steam Navigation Company 1
Bryant, Jacob, antiquary and classical scholar, d 1804 1
Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton, 1st Baronet, styled 13th Baron Chandos, bibliographer, 1762-1837 1
Burness, James, Edinburgh, printer, fl 1824-1845 1
Calder, James, Minister of Croy, 1712-1775 1
Campbell, R W, Captain, fl 1915 1
Campbell, Sir Alexander, 2nd Baronet, of Barcaldine, 1819-1880 1
Carruthers, Robert, of the 'Inverness Courier', 1799-1878 1
Central Ironmoulders' Association of Scotland, 1889-1926 1
Chambers, Charles Edward Stuart, editor and publisher, 1859-1936 1
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 1
Chisholm, Agnes, Edinburgh, fl 1888-1936 1
Church of Scotland 1
Clan Mackay Society 1
Crawford and Gammell, Greenock, merchants 1
Cunninghame Graham, family, of Gartmore and Ardoch 1
D and T Stevenson, civil engineers 1
Dalrymple, Sir Hew Whitefoord, 1st Baronet, General, 1750-1830 1
Duff, Archibald (Vice Admiral) 1
Duncan Brothers and Co Ltd, Kolkata 1
Duncan, Henry, Hon. Sir, Knight (Captain, RN) 1
Duncan, Walter, Tea merchant, Kolkata, 1834 - 1900: former owner 1
Dundas, Sir Lawrence, First Baronet, of Kerse, 1712-1781 1
Earlston Co-operative Society 1
Foulis, James, 5th baronet of Colinton, 1714-1791 1
Franco-Scottish Society of Scotland 1
Free Church of Scotland 1
Galashiels Co-operative Coal Society 1
Galashiels Co-operative Society 1
Galashiels United Co-operative Society 1
Galashiels Waverley Co-operative Society 1
Gavin, William, Ensign and Quarter-master, 71st Highland Regiment, fl 1806-1815 1
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 1
Gillies, Robert Pearse, of Balmakewan, advocate, 1788-1858 1
Graham, Robert Cunninghame Cunninghame, of Gartmore, Ardoch and Finlaystone, formerly Bontine, 1799-1863 1
Graham, Robert Cunninghame, of Gartmore, politician and poet, formerly Graham, then Bontine, 1735-1797 1
Gray, Andrew, site engineer, D and T Stevenson, civil engineers, fl 1873-1893 1
Grieve, James, tenant farmer, Roxburghshire, d ?1838 1
Grieve, William, tenant farmer, Roxburghshire, fl 1837-1840 1
Grimond, William, trader, Dundee, fl 1797-1850 1
H Allnutt and Son, paper manufacturers 1
Haldane, Thomas Graeme Nelson, scientist, 1897-1981 1
Hay, family, of Hayfield 1
Highland Society of London 1
Home, George, correspondent of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, fl 1835-1836: recipient 1
Hooper, John C, soldier in Boer War, fl 1901-1902 1
Houstoun, J H W, Postmaster and Acting Commissioner, Szemao, fl 1906-1912 1
Hunter, family, of Blackness 1
Inverness Courier, newspaper 1
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 (journalist) 1
Ironfounding Workers' Association, 1926-1946 1
Irving, Sir Paulus Aemilius, 1st Baronet, General, 1749-1828 1
James Dickson and Co, Edinburgh, wholesale stationer 1
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988: collector 1
Kennedy, Sir Robert Hugh, Knight, Commissary General, 1772-1840 1
Kilspindie Golf Club 1
Lanarkshire Miners' County Union, 1896-1920 1
Lanarkshire Mineworkers' Union, 1920-1945 1
Leslie, Hugh F, Jamaica, sugar planter, fl 1846-1848 1
Lifeboat Committee, Boarhills, St Andrews 1
Linn, James, teacher at Whitburn, fl 1860-1863: recipient 1
M J Brown, Son and Co, WS 1
MacKinnon, Duncan, partner in MacKinnon, MacKenzie and Co, Calcutta, d 1914 1
MacQueen, Donald, Minister of Kilmuir-in-Trotternish, d 1785 1
Mackay, Alexander, of Blackcastle, bookseller, fl 1823-1847 1
Masson, David Mather (biographer, literary scholar and editor) 1
McDowall, Hay, Lieutenant-General, fl 1809 1
Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson and Haldane, Edinburgh, accountants 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Moir, Frederick Lewis Maitland, trader in Africa, 1852-1939 1
Moir, John William, trader in Africa, 1851-1940 1
Munro, John, Lieutenant-Colonel, fl 1809 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Union of Foundry Workers, 1920-1946 1
National Union of Mine Workers, Scottish Area, Gilmerton Branch 1
National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish Area, Lanarkshire District, 1945- 1
Ormston, Charles, Kelso, merchant, fl 1720-1730 1
Pattison, William, Edinburgh, merchant, fl 1808-1819 1
Payn, James, 1830-1898 (novelist and editor) 1
Peebles Co-operative Society 1
Phillipps, Sir Thomas, Baronet, collector of books and manuscripts, 1792-1872: former owner 1
Porteous, William, Edinburgh, fl 1860-1863 1
Robertson, Sir Lewis, Knight, administrator and industrialist, 1922-2008: former owner 1
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