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Account book, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5937
Scope and Contents

Including rent receipts for urban property.

Dates: 1828-1836.

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-books, sales-books and ledgers of and concerning Alexander Houston and Company, merchants, bankers, and shipowners in Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8793-8800
Scope and Contents

Houston's acted as an ‘entrepôt’ importing sugar, rum, cotton and tobacco from the British West Indies and distributing them to merchants throughout Britain. The return trade consisted of provisions, largely herrings and plantation stores, drawn in from various parts of Britain and occasionally from Western Europe. The papers, especially the letter-books and sales-books, offer a detailed picture of the organisation and price structure of the trade.

Dates: 1729-1798.

Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates: 1750-1802.

Records of East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13285
Scope and Contents

Minute books, membership registers, financial records and related papers, 1921 – 2001, of the East Edinburgh Unionist Association.

Dates: 1921 - 2001

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Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 1
Beneficent Society of Bo'ness 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 1
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 1