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Account book, Edinburgh.
Including rent receipts for urban property.
Accounts and papers relating to the Scottish Mint.
The papers consist of the counter warden`s accounts of silver minted from February 1699 to November 1700; of orders for payment by the Generals and Masters of the Mint; and of receipts of various employees.
Accounts for labourer’s wages and tradesman’s bills and receipts of the Faculty of Advocates for the building of the new library staircase.
Accounts of tradesmen’s wages and tradesmen’s accounts and vouchers concerning work undertaken in the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Acquittance, 1473, signed by James III in favour of Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston
With licence, 1509, in favour of Alexander Napier of Merchiston, signed by James IV, to travel to Amiens.
Agreement between Domenico Ronca and Thomas Carlyle and receipt of Ronca to Carlyle.
Agreement and receipt concern the keeping of fowl at 6 Cheyne Row.
With letter of Jane W Carlyle to John A Carlyle concerning the building of a client room by Thomas Carlyle.
Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.
Archives concerning Polish students at the University of St Andrews.
Assorted letters; with a receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III, and instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston.
Bound volume entitled 'Trousseau of Elizabeth Brand Scott on her marriage to James Steuart W.S., on 27 February, 1827'; with a volume of Jacobite papers.
Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.
This is the business archive of the firm, comprising incoming letters, orders, and receipts, from all parts of Britain and elsewhere, and drafts of a few of the firm's replies.
Copies of emigration papers of Ernest Robb.
Correspondence and other material of the families of John Hill Burton and his parents-in-law, Cosmo Innes and Isabella Rose of Kilravock.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Correspondence and papers of and relating to James Hogg.
The contents include: letters of James Hogg, 1814, 1820, 1826, 1831, 1835; an unpublished poem, 'The Fall of Idumea', written by him shortly before his death; letters and verses of his literary acquaintances in Scotland and London and his family; information supplied to his daughter and biographer, Mary Garden; portraits of Hogg; and a receipt, 1819, for duty paid by him on 'one work horse', on which someone has written, 'Mr. Hogg has no Horse nor never had one' (folio 333).
Correspondence of the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly concerning the shipment of books.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Fair copy in a contemporary hand of ‘De jure successionis andc regni Angliae Libri duo’ by Sir Thomas Craig.
Five leaves from an autograph album.
Including letters, receipts, drawings and engravings.
With items of Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Francis Chantrey and Benjamin Haydon.