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Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
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.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the printing of the Library’s catalogue.
File
Identifier: F.R.341
Dates:
1819-1879.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
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 books of Admiral Charles Graham, containing copies of his official correspondence and (on the inverted folios) of his orders and memoranda.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9729-9732
Scope and Contents
Much of the correspondence is administrative, concerning fitting out ships, obtaining stores, and matters of naval discipline, but also reflect the activities of the navy on the various stations where Admiral Graham served.From June 1829, Graham commanded successively the sloop ‘Philomel’ and HMS ‘Rattlesnake’. The latter ship served on the South American Station until September 1833, and the letters during this period concern the seizure of the British brig ‘Velocity’ by the...
Dates:
1829-1834, 1843-1851.
Memorandum book of James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline
Item
Identifier: Acc.10655
Dates:
1819-1846
Military notebooks, memoranda and order books, manuscript and printed, of General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16423-16427
Dates:
1794-1798.
Minute books and papers of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.375
Dates:
1773 to 20th century.
Papers of James Halliday, former chairman of the SNP, and two minute books of the National Party of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13417
Scope and Contents
James Halliday (1927-2013) played a pivotal role in stabilising the SNP in the 1950s. He replaced Dr Robert D. McIntyre as chairman of the party in 1956, thus becoming the youngest chairman at the age of 28. However, this promotion was not devoid of problems as internal divisions had to be overcome. By the 1959 election the prospects of the party had started to improve. There were five candidates contesting seats, including Halliday himself who stood once more for Stirling burghs. That same...
Dates:
1928-2005, undated.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.
Private memorandum book of Captain Robert Sutherland of Nessbank, covering the years from 1798, when he returned from India, to 1823.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12654
Dates:
1823.