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Papers of James A A Porteous.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7882
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, memoranda, and minutes concerning the Scottish nationalist movement.

Dates: 1944-1974.

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 James Porteous.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7505
Scope and Contents

Including minutes, reports and memorandums concerning the Scottish Covenant Association, Scottish Convention, and the Scottish National Development Council Economic Committee.

With editorial correspondence concerning the periodical, "Today and Tomorrow".

Dates: 1935-1970.

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 Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates: 1567-1596, and undated.

Papers of Major-General Honourable Sir Henry Murray relating to military manoeuvres.

 File
Identifier: MS.15383
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: (i) A memorandum written by Henry Murray between 1805 and 1808 for the assembly and exercise of a corps (folio 1); (ii) Programmes, 1812, of manoeuvres and reviews of the 18th Hussars, in which he was a Lieutenant-Colonel (folio 3); (iii) A memorandum, 1823, of the disposition of review and exercise of a division of cavalry (folio 25).

Dates: 1805-1823.

Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates: c.1970s-1994

Papers of Scotland-UN.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12735

Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26276-26300
Scope and Contents

Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.

Dates: 1928-1966, undated.

Papers of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council relating to Yemen and India.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10130/1-48
Scope and Contents

Papers, chiefly minutes and committee proceedings, of the Church of Scotland Overseas Council relating to Yemen and India.

Dates: 1939-1987.

Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates: 1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.

Papers of the family of Graham of Airth.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12290
Scope and Contents

Includes papers of related families including Stirling of Ardoch and Strowan, a family bible and printed material.

Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Papers of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13162
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of five files of general correspondence and papers dated from 1993 and 1997.

Dates: 1993-1997.

Papers relating to sedition, formerly part of the papers of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

 File
Identifier: MS.3011
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Notes of the speeches and opinions of the Court at the trial of Charles Sinclair for sedition at Edinburgh, 1794; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 778 (folio i);(ii) Memorandum for Dundas on the trial of Thomas Muir for sedition at Edinburgh, 1793; see ‘State trials’, edited by T J Howell, volume xxiii (London, 1817), page 118 (folio 49);(iii) List of papers on treasonable...
Dates: 1793-1799.

Photocopies of a file in the Ministry of Munitions records.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7507
Scope and Contents

Concerning the suppression of the newspaper "Forward" at the instance of the Ministry and opposition on the Clyde to Ministry legislation.

Dates: 1916.

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.

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Memorandums. 157
Letters. Correspondence. 49
Correspondence. 48
Notes. 39
Copies. Derivative objects. 28
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Accounts. 22
Typescripts. 19
Minutes. Administrative records. 18
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 18
Drafts. Documents. 15
Lists. 15
Microfilms. 15
Memorandums. Legal documents. 13
Diaries. 12
Reports. 12
Legal documents. 11
Documents. 10
Inventories. 10
Speeches. Documents. 10
Financial records. 9
Notebooks. 9
Photographs. 9
Printed materials. Object genre. 9
Reports 9
Excerpts. 8
Poetry. 8
Photocopies. 7
Translations. Documents. 7
Abstracts. Summaries. 6
Articles. 6
Biographies. 6
Instructions. Document genre. 6
Contracts. Agreements. 5
Sketches. 5
Transcripts. 5
Administrative records. 4
Business records. 4
Commissions. Permissions. 4
Declarations. 4
Extracts. 4
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Lectures. 4
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Orders. Military records. 4
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Petitions. 4
Agreements. Legal instruments. 3
Albums. 3
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 3
Bonds. Legal instruments. 3
Catalogues. 3
Certificates. 3
Estate records. 3
Histories. 3
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 3
Marriage certificates. 3
Memoirs. 3
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Proposals. 3
Publications. 3
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Registers (lists). 3
Signatures. Names. 3
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Wills. 3
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Minute books. 2
Newsletters. Serials. 2
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Orders. Records (documents). 2
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Personal papers. 2
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Names
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Porteous, James A A, author of "Scotland and the South", fl 1929-1970 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Abercromby, James, 1st Baron Dunfermline, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1776-1858 1
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Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Field-Marshal, 1891-1969 1
Beecher, Charles (minister, composer and author) 1
Bertie, Willougby, 4th Earl of Abingdon, 1740-1799 1
Bland, Humphrey, General, 1685/6-1763 1
Cadell, Patrick, Keeper of the Records of Scotland, 1941-2010 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Church of Scotland, Overseas Department 1
Clark, Robert (printer, Edinburgh) 1
Dott, Peter McOmish, Edinburgh, art dealer, 1856-c 1935 1
Douglas, Archibald Palmer, of Cavers, 1880-1947 1
Dunbar, family, of Mochrum 1
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 1
Dundas, Robert Saunders, 2nd Viscount Melville (politician) 1
Edinburgh Christian Council for Overseas Students 1
Edinburgh South Liberal Democrats 1
Educational Institue of Scotland, Henderson Memorial Library of Books on America 1
Erickson, John, military historian, 1929-2002 1
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 1
Forward, Glasgow, newspaper 1
Founders' Guild for an Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra 1
Gardiner, family, Banffshire 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gordon, Joseph, piper, fl 1823 1
Gordon, Sir James Willougby, 1st Baronet, of Niton, 1772-1851 1
Gordon, Sir James Willougby, 1st Baronet, of Niton, 1772-1851: recipient 1
Graham, family, of Airth 1
Gregor, family, Banffshire 1
Halliday, James, author, historian and politician, 1927-2013 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hay, George, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, 1689-1758 1
Hermes, Gertrude Anna Bertha, printmaker, sculptor, and designer, 1901-1983 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kelso Racecourse 1
Kinross, John Blythe, financier, 1904-1989 1
Laing, Nissa, Edinburgh, fl 1989: editor 1
Lawrence, Timothy, Music Division, National Library of Scotland, fl 1990-2009 1
Livingstone, Robert Moffat, son of David, explorer and missionary, pseudonym Rupert Vincent, 1846-1864 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Lockhart, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce, Knight, diplomatist, 1887-1970 1
Loftus, Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer, diplomatist, 1817-1904 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacPhail, James Calder, Minister of Pilrig Free Church, Edinburgh, 1821-1908 1
MacPhail, James Robert Nicolson, advocate, Sheriff of Stirling, 1858-1933 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn (political scientist and politician) 1
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 1
McDowall, Hay, Lieutenant-General, fl 1809 1
Milne, family, Banffshire 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Munro, John, Lieutenant-Colonel, fl 1809 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Party of Scotland 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971. 1
Pemberton, family, County Durham 1
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman, 1847-1929 1
Robertson, William, Richmond, Surrey, fl 1791 1
Ross, Andrew, grandson of Andrew, of Balsarroch, Minister of Inch, fl 1885 1
Ross, Andrew, of Balsarroch, Minister of Inch, 1726-1787 1
Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh 1
Russell, Stanley Livingstone (filmmaker) 1
Scotland-UN, pressure group 1
Scott, David, painter, 1806-1849 1
Scott, William Bell, poet and painter, 1811-1890 1
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association 1
Scottish Covenant Association, Scottish Convention 1
Scottish Film Producers Association 1
Scottish National Development Council, Economic Committee 1
Scottish National Party 1
Sears, Matthew Urlwin (wood engraver) 1
Sim, William, colour manufacturer, b 1843 1
Stamp, Alexandra Frances, journalist and author, née Artley, fl 1982-2004 1
Stirling, family, of Ardoch and Strowan 1
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (author and humanitarian) 1
Sutherland, Robert, Captain, of Nessbank, ? 1761-1828 1
Thomson, James, poet, 1700-1748 1
Today and Tomorrow. The Scottish Review, Glasgow, journal 1
Upper Foyers Estate, Invernesshire 1
Wallace, family, Nairn 1
Waterston, Robert, of George Waterston and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1878-1969 1
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 1
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841: recipient 1
Wimberley, Douglas Neil, Major-General, 1896-1983 1
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