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Coal accounts of Niddrie Mill, including accounts of money advanced by Lord Niddrie to erect the mill, production figures, expenses and profits.
At the back of the volume there are minutes and accounts of tacksmen of customs, 1686-1692.
Contribution book of the Leith branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
Contribution card of William Glen as a member of the Mid and East Lothian Miners` Association.
Correspondence and papers concerning the National Demonstration in Scotland, in honour of Arthur James Balfour.
Including accounts and press cuttings.
Correspondence and papers of Charles Steuart, Cashier and Paymaster, American Board of Customs.
Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Correspondence and papers of George Smith (1824-1901), publisher, and founder of the Dictionary of National Biography, and his successors as heads of the firm of Smith, Elder and Company.
The papers relate chiefly to the publication of articles in the 'Cornhill Magazine' (which George Smith founded), and of books published by the firm.
Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.
Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, papers and personal account-books of Charles Herries, a merchant in London who was Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, and correspondence and papers of his younger son, Lieutenant-General Sir William Lewis Herries and of, and concerning, other members of the family.
Diary and account book, August-November 1769, written by a tutor of Sir John Scott of Ancrum.
The writer was probably Alexander Pringle of Whytbank (died 1772), handwriting having characteristics similar to those of MS.9365: Rental of the estate of Whytbank, Selkirkshire.
The volume contains brief notes on the weather and the writer's daily affairs, with particular reference to property in Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, and entries for small items of expenditure.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Edinburgh Opera Company.
Minutes, accounts and members' lists, 1948-1954, of the Edinburgh Opera Company. The Edinburgh Opera Company was founded in 1920 and was in existence until 1981. The first meeting in the minute book, 25 October 1948, records the reconstitution of the Company with new links to the Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee, which had started a new Institute of Music at Broughton High School.
Estate account book, concerning the lands in East Lothian and Berwickshire, of Sir John Hall of Dunglass.
Estate account book kept by Alexander Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1732) and his son, John Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1778) recording accounts of charge and discharge, and of rent, 1689-1631, and accounts of money received from tenants, 1733-1777.
Estate account books for the 7th Earl of Haddington.
Estate rental and account book of the Rose family lands in Nairn and eastern Invernesshire, partly written by Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755).
Payments are in cash and kind including sheep, poultry and tallow, and contributions towards minister's stipends are also recorded.