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Letters and legal and business papers of the Camerons of Fassiefern.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11137/1-51
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers of the family of Cameron of Fassiefern, collected and preserved by Brodrick Haldane Esq, Edinburgh.

The letters are mostly to members of the Fassiefern family, especially to John Cameron of Fassiefern and his son Sir Ewen, 1st Baronet. Also containing some legal documents and business papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Cameron chiefs Sir Ewen and Donald Locheil.

Dates: 1700-20th century, undated.

Manuscripts and papers of and concerning the novelist, Neil Munro (1863-1930).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26901-26937
Scope and Contents

Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

Dates: 1863-1964.

Microfilm of papers of William and James Chisholme concerning the Trout Hall and other sugar plantations in Jamaica, consisting chiefly of accounts for provisions sent to Jamaica and for sugar from the plantation sold in England.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.907
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Papers, 1747-1798 (MS.5464);

Papers, 1799-1804 (MS.5465);

Papers, [?1747-?1812] (MS.5466).

Dates: [?1747-?1812].

Minutes, correspondence, accounts, photographs and papers of the Scottish Craft Centre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10232/1-601
Dates: Majority of material found within 1934-1990, undated.

Papers, chiefly financial, of Kinleith Paper Mill.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20671-20751
Scope and Contents

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Dates: 1866-1954.

Papers concerning McEwen and Company, perambulator manufacturers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5552
Scope and Contents

Including cashbook, orderbook, brass plates and advertising literature.

Dates: circa 1891-circa 1915.

Papers concerning Messrs Miller and Richard.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6762
Scope and Contents

Including photographs.

Dates: 1854-1861.

Papers of "Cencrastus".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9164
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of prose and poetry contributions, editorial correspondence and business records, including accounts and minute books.

Dates: 1979-1985.

Papers of "Gairm" and of Gairm Publications Ltd.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9367/1-62
Scope and Contents The editorial archive from 1952 to 1985 of the Gaelic literary and topical magazine 'Gairm' and of its associated Gaelic book publications, together forming Gairm Publications Ltd. The collection was assembled and maintained by Ruaraidh MacThomais, Professor Derick S Thomson, co-founder of the magazine (with the late Finlay J MacDonald) and editor since its foundation. Included also are some publishing papers of Professor Thomson's imprint, Clo Chaillean, Aberfeldy, and of a publication...
Dates: 1952-1985.

Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10555/1-163
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1955-1969 and undated.

Papers of John Blythe Kinross, containing business papers, private correspondence and diaries.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8699/1-58
Scope and Contents Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates: circa 1925-1980.

Papers of John Grant, bookseller.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9751

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Monreith House. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Dumfries and Galloway. Estate. Longitude: -4.5562. Latitude: 54.7538. 1
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John Grant Ltd, Edinburgh, booksellers and printers 4
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 4
John Murray (publishers, London) 3
Morning Star Publications, Edinburgh 3
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 2
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James Dickson and Co, Edinburgh, wholesale stationer 2
T and T Clark, Edinburgh, publishers 2
Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Amalgamated Slaters' Society of Scotland 1
Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists 1
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 1
Associated Shipwrights Society, Leith Branch 1
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, Maryhill Branch 1
Balerno Paper Mill Company, Midlothian 1
Bean, William Jackson (arboriculturist and dendrologist) (1863-1947) 1
Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, booksellers and publishers 1
Betjeman, John, Sir (poet) 1
Blanch, Lesley (writer) 1
Border Co-operative Society, Galashiels 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Cadell, family, of Grange 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Campbell, William Kilpatrick, director, Mainstream Publishing, b. 1951. 1
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 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
Charlestown Colliery and Limeworks 1
Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron (art patron and historian) 1
Club Leabhar Ltd, Inverness and Stornoway, Gaelic publishers 1
Company of Scottish History Ltd, publisher 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Cromarty Estate 1
Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, auctioneers 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
Edinburgh Printing and Kindred Trades Employers' Association 1
Edinburgh Society of Cabinet and Chair Makers 1
Edinburgh Typographical Society, Press and Machinemen's Section 1
Edinburgh United Furniture Trades’ Committee 1
Federation of Wholesale and Multiple Bakers, Scottish Area 1
Fenwick Weavers Society 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Gairm Publications 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
Gall and Inglis (printers and publishers, Edinburgh.) 1
Gentleman, James, merchant, Edinburgh, d 1854 1
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 1
Gibson, Thomas H, Editor of the "Scots Independent", fl 1925-1974 1
Glasgow and West of Scotland Master Bakers Association 1
Grimble, Arthur Francis, Sir, Knight (colonial governor and ethnographer) (1888-1956) 1
Guild of Insurance Officials, Edinburgh Branch 1
Incorporation of Shoemakers of Linlithgow 1
Ingrams, William Harold (colonial official) (1897-1973) 1
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 (journalist) 1
Ironfounding Workers' Association, 1926-1946 1
J G Thomson and Co, Ltd, Leith, wine and spirit merchants 1
Jabavu, Noni (writer and journalist) (1919-2008) 1
James Thin, Edinburgh (bookseller) 1
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (novelist and screenwriter) (1927-2013) 1
John Bartholomew and Son Ltd (Edinburgh, publishers) 1
Kinross, John Blythe, financier, 1904-1989 1
Kirkliston Reading Room 1
Lancaster, Sir Osbert, Knight, cartoonist, author and critic , 1908-1986: transcriber 1
MacKenzie, Peter, director, Mainstream Publishing, fl. 1970-2015 1
Maclehose, James, James (President of the Federation of Master Printers and Allied Trades of Great Britain) 1
Mainstream Publishing 1
Marchand, Leslie Alexis (literary scholar and Byron biographer) (1900-1999) 1
Masson, David Mather (biographer, literary scholar and editor) 1
Master Printers' Association, Edinburgh Branch 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 1
McEwen and Company, Stirling, perambulator manufacturers 1
Messrs Miller and Richard, Edinburgh, type founders 1
Morrison, Hubert Peter, President of Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, publisher, d 1971 1
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (physician and author) (1857-1949) 1
Murphy, Dervla (cyclist and author) 1
Murray, John Arnaud Robin (publisher (VI), formerly Grey) (1909-1993) 1
National Party of Scotland 1
National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Edinburgh Branch 1
Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, publishers and printers 1
Origo, Iris Margaret, Dame (writer and historian, née Cutting) 1
Payn, James, 1830-1898 (novelist and editor) 1
R and R Clark Limited, Edinburgh, printers 1
Raymond Private Press, Cullen 1
Sagan, Françoise (French novelist and dramatist) (1935-2004) 1
Saltire Society 1
Scots National League 1
Scottish Alliance of Employers in the Printing and Kindred Trades 1
Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse 1
Scottish Craft Centre 1
Scottish Home Rule Association 1
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish National Union of Cabinet and Chairmakers 1
Scottish News Enterprises Ltd, publishers 1
Scottish Newspaper Proprietors' Association 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Sim, William, colour manufacturer, b 1843 1
Society of Master Printers of Scotland 1
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