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Edinburgh Opera Company.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13945
Content Description
Minutes, accounts and members' lists, 1948-1954, of the Edinburgh Opera Company. The Edinburgh Opera Company was founded in 1920 and was in existence until 1981. The first meeting in the minute book, 25 October 1948, records the reconstitution of the Company with new links to the Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee, which had started a new Institute of Music at Broughton High School.
Dates:
1948 - 1954
Files of the Executive Committee and other central organisation minutes and papers of the Scottish National Party.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11987
Dates:
1964-1995.
Financial records and minutes of the Queen`s Club, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9899
Dates:
1893-1962.
Further records of the Scottish Green Party, with papers of the UK Green Party and predecessor organisations.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14224
Dates:
Circa 1980-2017.
Gude Cause Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13293/1-240
Scope and Contents
Electronic archive, digital images, sound and video recordings, and related ephemera of the Gude Cause project, 2008-2010. The project’s main objective was to celebrate the centenary of the Women’s Social and Political Union procession which took place in Edinburgh on 10 October 1909. Furthermore, in the light of a report published before the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Gude Cause sought to reenergize women’s participation in Scottish political life.The archive charts the...
Dates:
2006-2010
`History of the Subscriptions for the Erecting of the Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh compiled from the Minute Books and Vouchers of the original and Auxiliary Committees by John Castle, secretary to the Joint Committee. 1852`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.15
Scope and Contents
At the beginning of the volume is inserted a letter of James Ballantine, glass painter and song writer to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1865, giving an extract of John Castle`s will 1864, bequeathing the manuscript to the Advocates` Library. At the back of the volume are recorded financial statements concerning the monument. The rest of the volume is comprised of copies of reports, minutes of meetings and correspondence, 1832-1853.
Dates:
1832-1853.
Letters and papers of, to or concerning the Reverend William Stevenson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9200
Dates:
1858-1916.
List of bonds belonging to the Faculty of Advocates delivered to Mr John Frank, treasurer, with a minute of the Faculty.
File
Identifier: Ch.A.230
Dates:
1692.
Manuscript containing minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804) and letter book, 1816-January 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet, and father-in-law of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy).
File
Identifier: MS.20758
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Minutes, 1804-1807, of the tutors (guardians, curators) of Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy (succeeded 1804). As well as the record of their discussions on estate business, the minutes include copies of letters, a report, 1806, by Robert Reid, surveyor, Perth (folio 13 verso), and statement of accounts, 1806 (folio 21 verso).
(ii) Letter-book, May, 1816-January, 1817, of a lawyer named Maclean, probably Donald Maclean of Drimnin, Writer to the Signet...
Dates:
1804-1817.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of Gavin Ewart, poet.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12908/1-114
Dates:
1890-1996.
Memorial of a Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3770
Scope and Contents
Concerning teinds and stipends.
Dates:
? 1807.
Memorials, minutes, &c., of the sheriffs substitute of Scotland, relating to increases in the scale of their salaries.
File
Identifier: MS.136
Scope and Contents
Includes printed material.
Dates:
1801-1844.
Microfilm of assorted catalogues, minutes and other papers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.111
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, 18th century, of the title-page and pages 881-889 of ‘Opus de Obligationibus Justitiae, Religionis, et Charitatis’ (Lugduni, 1608) of Fernando Rebello, containing Liber 18, `de promissionibus et donationibus`, 18th century (Adv.MS.5.1.5);Minutes of the Belles-Lettres Society of Edinburgh, 27 November 1761-7 December 1764 (Adv.MS.5.1.6);Catalogue of the library of Sir Ellis Cunliffe, Baronet, 1762 (Adv.MS.5.1.7);Catalogue...
Dates:
Late 16th century-mid 19th century.
Microfilm of books of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.427
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1612-1793 (MS.3577);
Book of the Incorporation of Wrights of Culross, 1793-1845 (MS.3578).
Dates:
1612-1845.
Microfilm of Church of Scotland Missionary Archive. Part 1. Missions to India and China 1829-1933. Reels 1-7 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1717-1723
Dates:
1829-1933.
Microfilm of minutes and records of the United Trades Delegates Association of Edinburgh & Vicinity, Council of United Trades Delegates, Edinburgh United Trades Council, Edinburgh and District United Trades Council, Edinburgh and District United Trades and Labour Council, and Edinburgh & District Trades Council.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1507-1521
Dates:
1859-1981.
Microfilm of minutes of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and notes of extraordinary business conducted at ordinary meetings.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1844-1845
Dates:
1795-1926.
Microfilm of minutes of the Scottish Episcopal Dioceses of Dunblane and Dunkeld and of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1031-1032
Dates:
1735-1902.
Microfilm of papers of Alexander Walker during his time in Malabar.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1113
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, reports, minutes, and other papers, of the Malabar Commission during Alexander Walker’s time in Malabar (MS.13609);
‘Considerations on the Revenue of Malabar', compiled circa 1801 (MS.13624).
Dates:
1799-1800
Microfilm of papers of Sir Thomas John Cochrane, during his service at the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1006-1008
Dates:
1842-1847.
Microfilm of Royal Scottish Pipers' Society minutes.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1377-1379
Dates:
1888-1946.
Microfilm of ‘Treaties at Newcastle and London 1640-1641’; and, church papers chiefly concerning the Glasgow Assembly.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.805
Dates:
1640-1641.
Minute and letter book of the Faculty of Advocates Committee on the Widow’s Fund.
Item
Identifier: F.R.382
Dates:
1826-1830.
Minute and record book of the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust, kept by its Clerk-Treasurer, K M Oliphant, Writer to the Signet.
Item
Identifier: MS.24724
Scope and Contents
The Scottish National Library Endowment Trust was established at the Instigation of Hugh P Macmillan King’s Counsel, later Lord Macmillan, its Honorary Secretary, to receive gifts from private individuals towards the establishment of a National Library on the basis of the non-legal collections of the Advocates’ Library. Its most notable receipt, £100,000 from Alexander (later Sir Alexander) Grant in June 1923, made possible the establishment of the Library in 1925.The volume...
Dates:
1923-1925.