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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.
Account and letter books of W Green and Son Ltd, and of their predecessors, Bell and Bradfute, law publishers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.193
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Business books of Archibald Constable & Company, Robert Cadell & Company, and Robert Cadell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.789-802
Dates:
1814-1847.
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 John C Hooper to his parents, during his time in the Boer War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6194
Dates:
1901-1902.
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 and papers of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12345/1-189
Dates:
1960-2002, undated.
Correspondence and research papers of the Seanachaidh (historian) of the Clan Mackay Society with some records of the organisation
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11994
Dates:
circa 1887-2000.
Correspondence between Thomas G N Haldane and Bruno Brandi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6064
Dates:
1934-1939.
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.
Correspondence, letter-books, diaries and other papers of missionaries and missionary societies.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.99- is now Acc.4393.
Dates:
19th century.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
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.
Four letter books of the Secretary, Gilmerton Branch, National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish Area.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10483
Dates:
1958-1961.
Jamaican estate letter book of Hugh F Leslie of Leith Hall sugar plantation.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10241-is now MS.50272
Dates:
1846-1848.
Letter - and memorandum - book of "Papers on the Difference between Government and the Army of Fort St George 1809", occasioned by the censure of Lieutenant-Colonel John Munro, by Lieutenant-General Hay McDowall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8954
Dates:
1809.
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 and correspondence, concerning the wine trade in Bordeaux and French trade with Scotland generally.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.6552
Dates:
1717-1741.
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.
Letter book of Andrew Gray, site engineer employed by D and T Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8657
Dates:
1873-1876, 1889-1893.