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Account of a quarrel and the resulting duel between two officers of the 78th Highlanders near Ahmadnagar, India.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11967
Scope and Contents
Includes statement by the surviving party.
Dates:
? 1803.
Account, with plan, of the division of Langton Common and Langton Moor.
File
Identifier: Acc.5318
Dates:
1769.
Administrative and financial papers of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11551/1-42
Scope and Contents
Minutes, annual reports, correspondence and papers and some financial records mostly of the South East Scotland District of the Workers’ Educational Association, 1925-1993. The District organisation was established in November 1946, when the WEA in Scotland set up three Scottish districts (South East, West, and North) linked together in a WEA Scottish Council. In 1993 the three Scottish districts of the Association merged to form a WEA Scottish Association whose headquarters are in Riddle’s...
Dates:
1925-1993.
Album of letters to and printed items collected by William Ford, bookseller, Manchester, through his involvement in the Edinburgh book trade.
File
Identifier: MS.18000
Scope and Contents
The album includes letters from several prominent Edinburgh figures of the early 19th century such as Thomas Thomson, Deputy Clerk Register, and Edward W A Drummond Hay, Principal Clerk, Lyon Office. Both men appear to have been in regular correspondence with William Ford. Amongst the printed items is an "Inventory of Work done for the State by his Majesty's Printer in Scotland 1642-1647" (Edinburgh, 1815), edited by Thomas Thomson. There are also a number of newspaper reports of meetings of...
Dates:
1810-1830.
Annotated proofs of extracts from reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7956
Dates:
1874-1879.
Annual Reports, accounts and minutes of North Berwick Golf Club.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13228
Scope and Contents
North Berwick Golf Club was formed on 8th May 1832 to play over the links there. The original course of 6/7 holes was extended to 12 in 1869-70 taking over the Park to the west. In 1877, the Club acquired the right to play over part of the Dirleton estate. This became known as the Private Golf Links or Greens. From the earliest days, the members of the Club dined together after their matches and, in 1879, it was resolved to build a Clubhouse by the links. The committee formed to oversee this...
Dates:
1984 to 2005.
Annual reports of the Edinburgh Council of Social Service
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6470- is now QP.la.2561.
Dates:
1868-1974
Anonymous manuscript account of the Battle of Culloden and subsequent events.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7453
Dates:
circa 1746-circa 1799.
Assessments claimed in respect of the local Poor Law Acts on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5431
Dates:
1842-1848.
Attendance registers and other papers concerning schools on Rona and Raasay.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7202/1-7
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1879-1966, 1977.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates:
1636-1963.
Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.
Dates:
Circa 1795-1905.
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.
Collection of copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vols. I-II
Scope and Contents
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1793-1794.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Contemporary copies of correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Smith, mostly concerning the proposed marriage of Queen Elizabeth with the Duc d`Anjou (later Henri III) and the Duc d`Alençon.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.11
Scope and Contents
Also included is some material related to Smith`s ‘De Republica Anglorum’, books 2-3 (folio 8 verso), and a report on affairs in Germany by Sir William Waad, circa 1583 (folio 99).Much of the material is known from papers in the Public Record Office (see ‘Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series’ for the reign of Elizabeth). For Smith`s Dialogue on the Queen`s marriage (folio 63), cf. ‘ The Life of ... Sir Thomas Smith’, pages 184-259. A list of material on the arraignment of the...
Dates:
1551-1572, and undated.
Copies of records of church furnishings in Scotland, compiled by the Church Recorder of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies.
File
Identifier: Acc.11951
Dates:
1996-1997.
Copy of a report, 1786, to Cardinal Giovanni Archinto concerning the supply of priests in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.9766
Scope and Contents
With extract of letter, 1784, from bishops [? George] Hay, Alexander MacDonald and [John?] Geddes to Leonardo Antonelli.
Dates:
1784-1786.
Copy of a report by Giles Gordon on his two terms as C. Day Lewis Fellow in Writing at King`s College, University of London, with covering letter.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12995
Dates:
1974-1975.
Copy of George F R Henderson, "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War" (1898), inscribed and marked by Douglas Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7134
Scope and Contents
Containing a letter and report, 1919, to Haig, and a few maps, undated.
Dates:
1898, 1919 and undated.
Copy of part of the acts and proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, including a summary of the proceedings up to the 7th of December, the acts deposing the bishops, and an index of the Assembly`s acts, apparently extracted by Archibald Johnston, clerk to the Assembly.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.2
Dates:
1638.
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.21
Scope and Contents
The report is signed by Major General George Wade, folio 15.A copy of each of the following papers follows the official report:a list of the arms surrendered by the clans between August and October 1725 (folio 15 verso);Wade’s instructions to the Officers Commanding the Highland Companies, 22 September 1725 (folio 16 verso);letters of submission of persons attainted of high treason, written between August and October 1725 (folio 17 verso);...
Dates:
1726.
Copy of typescript town-planning report on Jaffa and Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12423
Dates:
1925.