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Account and letter books of W Green and Son Ltd, and of their predecessors, Bell and Bradfute, law publishers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.193
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.20
Scope and Contents
The copy is in Nimmo’s own hand, written up in the form of a journal, from the notes which he took in his pocket-book whilst engaged upon the survey. It is written on the rectos of the leaves, the versos being left for maps (folios 11 verso, 12 verso), notes, bearings, and additions to the text. It appears to be incomplete, for it ends rather abruptly (folio 50). It is followed by an explanatory letter to John Rickman, who at the time was secretary to the commissions for making roads and...
Dates:
1806.
Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.
Dates:
Circa 1795-1905.
Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.229
Dates:
1900-1965.
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.21
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume include:(i) Genealogical accounts in a variety of hands of a number of British peers, collected while Beatson was gathering material for his work on the English Peerage. (See also Adv.MSS.33.5.9-33.5.10). For another copy of the account of the family of Calder (folio 29), see MS.9982.(ii) An account, in Beatson`s hand, of the Parish of Dysart, his birthplace, undated (folio 57).(iii) Description of a Tour of Scotland made by...
Dates:
1785-1803, and undated.
Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13514
Scope and Contents
Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.
Dates:
1826-1865, undated
Copy, 17th century, of a journal kept by a member of Sir Robert Cecil`s suite during the period of his embassy to France, February-April 1598, before the signing of the Treaty of Vervins.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.10
Scope and Contents
The entries for each day are brief, and much of the manuscript consists of copies of official correspondence sent and received by Cecil, some of which was published in ‘An Historical View of the Negotiations between the courts of England, France and Brussels’, pages 100-157.
Dates:
1598.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Correspondence, journals, drafts of articles and miscellaneous papers of Rawdon Goodier, biologist and mountaineer
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13369
Scope and Contents
The journals relate to Rawdon Goodier’s travels in Europe, the USA and the Andes. The papers relate to his activities in Zimbabwe where he was employed on the Tsetse Survey of the Department of Tsetse Control, from 1955-196, and to Buddhism in Edinburgh from 1999.
Dates:
1972-2008
Correspondence, minutes, journals and other papers concerning "Democracy for Scotland", a campaign for the reintroduction of a Scottish Parliament.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11497
Scope and Contents
The Democracy for Scotland campaign began after the Scottish referendum held in 1979 failed to achieve the number of votes required to give Scotland devolved powers. The campaign began in 1992 and went on until a further referendum was held in Scotland in 1997. The campaign was based around a vigil which was erected in Edinburgh’s Calton Hill across the road from the Scottish office. The vigil was manned by strong supporters of Scottish independence. The Democracy for Scotland campaign was a...
Dates:
1992-1997.
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates:
1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.
Diaries and notebooks of William Blair, minister of Dunblane United Presbyterian Church; with two volumes formerly belonging to John Bisset, minister of Nairn United Presbyterian Church.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3334/1-50
Scope and Contents
Includes student lecture-notes, journals and sermons.
Dates:
?1843-1903, undated.
Diary of Daniel Murray Smillie, officer in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW1.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13748
Scope and Contents
Papers of Daniel Murray Smillie, written whilst serving as an officer with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War. The son of Robert Smillie, trade unionist and politician, Daniel Murray Smillie appears to have enlisted in 1915. The papers include a diary, 30 August to 17 November 1916, which gives an insight into the work of the RAVC at the veterinary hospital at Bulford, covering such subjects as the treatment of horses. More general themes are also covered...
Dates:
1916-1919.
`Diurnall of the 2d parl: of our Soverainge Lord King Charles from the 15 day of Julay 1641 to ye 27 of November holden at Edinburghe’ by Sir James Balfour.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.7
Dates:
1641.
Documents relating to the management and improvement of the estate of Ladykirk, Berwickshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.998-999
Scope and Contents
Detailed schemes of inclosing, building, stocking, planting, and general work on the farm are described.
Dates:
1758-1784.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Farm journal of Broomhall Park, Kelso.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6408
Scope and Contents
Written as extracts from letters.
Dates:
1759-1760.
Financial journals of the Faculty of Advocates Widow’s Fund.
Series
Identifier: F.R.425-F.R.428
Dates:
1830-1939.
Foreign mission records of the Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7530-8022
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the surviving foreign mission records to 1929 (with a few documents of the early 1930s) of the churches which in that year reunited to form the Church of Scotland, namely the (Established) Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland, the latter itself the product of the union in 1900 between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church. The bulk of the material consists of the letter-books of the conveners, secretaries, and...
Dates:
1822-1936.
Illustrated log books of the yachts ‘Norma’ and ‘Coquette’, of cruises off the West Coast of Scotland, and also to Brittany and the Channel Islands. Both yachts were owned by Sir Thomas Newnham Deane (1828-1899), an Irish architect. The logs were probably written by his friend, Joseph Manley Todd. They are illustrated with delightful, often humorous, pen and wash drawings by Deane of the party and places they visited.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13216
Dates:
1868-1880.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Journal and account book of Mrs Burton-Sayers` work party.
File
Identifier: Acc.11999
Dates:
1940-1941.
'Journal book of Francis Ronaldson Surveyor to the General Post Office Edinburgh.'
Item
Identifier: MS.10687
Scope and Contents
Francis Ronaldson was appointed Assistant Surveyor in 1786 and General Surveyor in 1789. His journal book records his many journeys throughout Scotland, inspecting and establishing post offices, investigating complaints, instructing postmasters, and making surveys for the extension of the mail coach services. It also includes his quarterly accounts of expenditure on these journeys. A watercolour caricature of Ronaldson and some biographical notes on him taken from John Kay, ‘A series of...
Dates:
1786-1814.
Journal concerning hunting, shooting and fishing expeditions in Scotland, England and Wales.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10562
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Dates:
1911-1925.
Journal, entitled "Nine Months in Scotland, 1795-96" written by James Shaw, son of Andrew Shaw, Professor of Divinity at St. Mary`s College, St. Andrews and nephew of Professor Hugh Blair.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.15
Scope and Contents
Shaw begins and concludes his stay in Scotland as a guest of Professor Blair in Edinburgh and provides an interesting account of his uncle`s character and activities. Shaw also records his visits to James Townsend Oswald, son of the Right Honourable James Oswald of Dunnikier, the politician, to whom he had formerly been tutor and companion, and to the village of Craigie where his brother Andrew was minister.His personal recollections of friends and relations are interspersed with...
Dates:
1795-1796.