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Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13898
Content Description

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

Dates: 1820-1974.

Correspondence and papers of John Addison Birkbeck; with items relating to Dundee Typographical Society, including a volume, September 1879-January 1897, of the Courier and Argus Chapel of the Dundee Typographical Society.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5277
Scope and Contents

Containing minutes of chapel meetings, lists of members, and accounts.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1879-1897, circa 1940-1971.

Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1-67
Scope and Contents

Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.

Dates: 1760-1838.

Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10431
Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Microfilm of assorted papers of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company, the Gibson family, Robert Stevenson and Alexander Graham Dunlop.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.444
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Minute book, 1697-1698, of the Committee for Equipping Ships of the Darien Company (Adv.MS.83.7.2);Legal and financial papers, 1825-1893, of the Gibson family, concerning the sale and purchase of property in the province of Buenos Aires, together with sketch maps, powers of attorney and other miscellaneous papers (MS.10328);Letters and a journal, 1817, of Robert Stevenson, the engineer, addressed to his daughter Jeanie during a visit he...
Dates: 1697-1698, 1817-1893.

Minute-book of a lodge or trade union in Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: MS.833
Scope and Contents

The minute-book is apparently of operative house-carpenters and joiners (see folio 9), with a list of members and letters to divisions at Glasgow, London, Leith, and Dunfermline.

Dates: 1836-1837.

Minute books, correspondence and other administrative papers of the Piobaireachd Society.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12565
Scope and Contents

Deposited, 2005, by the Piobaireachd Society. Through the good offices of Dugald MacNeill, Edinburgh. Presented by the Piobaireachd Society in 2023.

Dates: 1905-1993.

Minute-books of the committee of Larkhall Miners’ Association kept by the general secretary, Robert Smillie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8023-8025
Scope and Contents

The committee met weekly, but the minutes for the period 22 June 1891-24 October 1893 are missing.

Dates: 1890-1894.

Papers, 1909-1919, concerning the Men`s Institute of St Ninian`s (Episcopal) Cathedral, Perth.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7526
Scope and Contents

Including minute book, account book and letters.

With seven letters, 1855, 1883-1888, to Charles Wordsworth.

Dates: 1855-1919.

Papers of and relating to Mary Slessor, missionary.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13297
Scope and Contents

Papers of Mary Slessor, missionary, including her court record book, 1905-1906, compiled during her vice-presidency over the Ikot Obong native court, a copy of a letter, 1914, and a small number of photographs, undated.

Dates: 1905-1906, 1914.

Papers of "Cencrastus".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10532
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories and poems, and business records including minute books, corrspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1980-1991.

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 George Dott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5927
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. minute book, 1926-1931, of the Scottish National Movement

2. papers and correspondence, 1931-1933, concerning the National Party of Scotland

3. letters, 1929-1938, of and to George Dott, including 32 of George Malcolm Thomson.

Dates: 1926-1938.

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Correspondence. 38
Financial records. 11
Letters. Correspondence. 10
Administrative records. 8
Accounts. 6
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Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 6
Account books. 5
Cashbooks. 5
Ledgers. Account books. 5
Articles. 4
Photographs. 4
Poetry. 4
Typescripts. 4
Letter books. 3
Manuscripts. 3
Membership lists. 3
Proofs. printed matter 3
Registers (lists) 3
Reports 3
Rules. Instructions 3
Book industries and trade 2
Booksellers and bookselling 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Memorandums. 2
Microfilms. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Research notes 2
Africa. Continent. 1
Agendas. Administrative records. 1
Albums. 1
Annual reports. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Ballads. 1
Biographies. 1
Bo'ness. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Falkirk. Longitude: -3.6167. Latitude: 56.0167. -- Borrowstounness. -- Borrowstoness. 1
Broadcasts. Events. 1
Brochures. 1
Business records. 1
Calabar (inhabited place). Africa - Nigeria - Cross River. Longitude: 8.3667. Latitude: 4.9333. 1
Caricatures. 1
Certificates 1
Constitutions. Legal documents. 1
Copies. Derivative objects. 1
Deeds. Legal documents. 1
Documents. 1
Excerpts. 1
Inventories. 1
Invoices. 1
Journals. Periodicals. 1
Legal documents. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Nationalism. Scottish. 1
Newsletters. Serials. 1
Notebooks. 1
Notes. 1
Obituaries. 1
Photograph albums. 1
Politics. 1
Posters. 1
Powers of attorney. Legal instruments. 1
Printers. 1
Programmes 1
Prospectuses 1
Proverbs. 1
Receipts. Financial records 1
Reviews. Document genre 1
Scores 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Short stories. 1
Sketches 1
Songs. Musical compositions. 1
Sound recordings. 1
Speeches. Documents. 1
Stock books. Business records. 1
Travel journals. 1
Visitors' books. 1
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Language
English 43
Undetermined 5
 
Names
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 2
Edinburgh Booksellers' Society Limited, 1879- 2
Edinburgh Booksellers' Society, 1776-1879 2
National Party of Scotland 2
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 2
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Amalgamated Engineering Union, Edinburgh Central Branch 1
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Foundry Section, 1971-1992 1
Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers, 1946-1971 1
Ardrossan Liberal Association 1
Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland, -1920 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Beneficent Society of Bo'ness 1
Birkbeck, John Addison, printer and bibliographer, d 1971 1
Bone, James, journalist, 1872-1962 1
Buteshire Liberal Association 1
Central Ironmoulders' Association of Scotland, 1889-1926 1
Children in Scotland 1
Clan Mackay Society 1
Dott, George, Scottish Nationalist, fl 1909-1959 1
Dundee Courier and Argus Chapel 1
Dundee Typographical Society 1
East Edinburgh Unionist Association 1
Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts 1
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1
Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society 1
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society 1
Edinburgh Poetry Club 1
Edinburgh and Leith Engineers' Society 1
Farquhar, Ronald Middleton, Minister of Monigaff, 1929-1986 1
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 1
Halliday, James, author, historian and politician, 1927-2013 1
Highland Village Industries Committee, Kyle of Lochalsh 1
Ironfounding Workers' Association, 1926-1946 1
Kilmarnock Liberal Association and Club 1
Kinross-shire Liberal Association 1
Luffness New Golf Club, East Lothian 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
McBey, James, painter and etcher, 1883-1959 1
Men's Institute of St Ninian's (Episcopal) Cathedral, Perth 1
National Independent Order of Oddfellows 1
National Union of Foundry Workers, 1920-1946 1
Penney, Michael E Campbell, chartered accountant, Edinburgh, d 2003 1
Piobaireachd Society 1
Pride of Midlothian Lodge 1
R and R Clark Limited, Edinburgh, printers 1
Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh 1
Royal Celtic Society 1
Scots Club, London 1
Scottish Campaign for the Resistance of the Atomic Menace 1
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association 1
Scottish National Movement 1
Scottish National Party 1
Shaw, George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950 1
Slessor, Mary, missionary in Calabar, 1848-1915 1
Southern Light Opera Company, Edinburgh 1
Thomson, George Malcolm, author, pseudonym Aeneas MacDonald, 1899-1996 1
Transport and General Workers' Union, Leith Dockers' Branch 1
Union Friendly Society, Gilcomston, Aberdeenshire 1
United General Sea Box of Bo'ness, 1634- 1
Waldensian Missions Aid Society, Scotland 1
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010 1
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010: collector 1
Wordsworth, Charles, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1806-1892: recipient 1
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