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Business records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records generated by a commercial or industrial enterprise.

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Administrative and financial papers of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11551/1-42
Scope and Contents Minutes, annual reports, correspondence and papers and some financial records mostly of the South East Scotland District of the Workers’ Educational Association, 1925-1993. The District organisation was established in November 1946, when the WEA in Scotland set up three Scottish districts (South East, West, and North) linked together in a WEA Scottish Council. In 1993 the three Scottish districts of the Association merged to form a WEA Scottish Association whose headquarters are in Riddle’s...
Dates: 1925-1993.

Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12384/1-285
Dates: Majority of material found within 1741-1753, 1788-1798, 1801, 1807, 1825-1826, 1836-2004, undated.

Archive of John Murray, publishers, containing author papers, research files, business records, and Murray family correspondence and diaries.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13236/1-422
Scope and Contents

Further papers of John Murray publishing house.

Dates: 1803-2007, undated.

Archive of John Murray VI and authors associated with him.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14349
Content Description Includes correspondence, book files, manuscripts and proofs relating to Murray authors. Authors featured in the collection include: John Betjeman, Lesley Blanch, George Mackay Brown, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Noni Jabavu, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Dervla Murphy and Freya Stark.Also included are some personal papers of Freya Stark.There are also letters to John Murray VI from correspondents including: Harold Acton, Michael Ayrton, Clive Bell, Isaiah Berlin, Hugh...
Dates: [?1915-?2016.]

Auction records of Dowell's Limited.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7603/1-174
Scope and Contents

Including roup rolls and sale catalogues.

Dates: 1892-1950.

Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents

Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.

Dates: 1838-1893.

Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13617
Scope and Contents

The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.

Dates: Circa 1970-2005.

Business papers of James Dickson and Co.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9500
Scope and Contents

Includes letter book, stock inventories, account books and price book.

Dates: 1818-1932.

Business papers of Messrs William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.6660-7000
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1778-1841.

Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1752-2002, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Elizabeth Chaffard and her family.

 File
Identifier: MS.9685
Scope and Contents

Madame Chaffard ran a millinery and dress-making business in Edinburgh, but during the period 1866-1867, to which most of the letters belong, she lived in Brighton and the business was managed by her sister, Mrs Mary Carmichael. The letters concern family matters as well as the firm's accounts and its day-to-day management.

Dates: 1844-1899.

Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Correspondence, publication files and financial papers of Canongate Publishing Limited; with papers of Southside Publishers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9885/1-143
Scope and Contents

Includes papers relating to publicity and typescript and proof copies of manuscripts.

Dates: 1969-1988, undated.

Further papers of John Grant, Booksellers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14405
Content Description

Includes cash books, minutes of meetings of the directors, correspondence regarding premises on George IV Bridge, printed sales catalogues, and notes regarding the Edinburgh booktrade.

Dates: 1843-1989.

Further papers of John Murray, publishers.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13328
Scope and Contents This collection of records, supplementing earlier sections of the John Murray Archive, contains press files, sales catalogues and advertising material, educational publishing papers, business records, and author papers administered by John Murray publishers in the ordinary course of their commercial trade. Also included are papers and correspondence documenting company history and staff experiences; the operation of the company's historical archive; alongside a small collection...
Dates: 1815-2015