Drafts. Negotiable instruments.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Bills and receipts of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion, 1859-1867, and undated (folio 1), together with lists of subscriptions and other financial papers, 1859-1866, and undated (folio 85)., 1859-1867.
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Correspondence, rough notes, memoranda, and drafts of parliamentary speeches of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, concerning the campaign for a Militia Act for Scotland., 1756, 1760-1761, 1766.
Included is a draft of a pamphlet 'Reasons for extending the Militia Acts to the Disarmed countys of Scotland', attributed to George Dempster (folio 77).
Draft contract between John, Lord Saltoun and Mr William Livingston, his servant., 1612.
The 8th Lord sold many of the estates and borrowed extensively on the security of Saltoun, which was the subject of endless dispute after his death in 1612.
Draft of the gift of the escheat of Walter Kinninmond of Kilduncan, his son Patrick, and his brother Gideon, for the slaughter of Andrew, son of David Kinninmond of Kinninmonth., 1617.
Four drafts issued by Thomas Moore against John Murray II, with a receipt issued by Moore for money received., 1823.
Fragment of draft of documents used as a book cover, containing inscription [possibly] Jo Higgins [possibly] Coal Book 1700` and a number of monetary calculations., Undated.
A miscellany of charters and other formal documents from the collection of John Smith, Edinburgh. Most of the documents are deeds relating to land tenure in East Lothian, particularly to lands and properties in Dunbar.
Legal and financial papers concerning Washington Irving., 1820-1851.
The papers here concern legal and financial matters between Irving and the publishing house of Murray. The legal instruments concern the copyrights of works by Washington Irving while the financial instruments are mainly in relation to payments that Murray made to Irving.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Burney, S. to Burnside., 1807-1906.
Miscellany of papers concerning the Ellice family., 1799-1815, undated.
The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, chiefly with George Chalmers, and notes, on antiquarian topics, 1799- 1815, undated (folio 1); (ii) Papers, 1741-1803, undated, concerning the Ellice family, consisting of typed biographical accounts (some incomplete) and copies of portraits of members of the family (folio 75); (iii) A small quantity of unrelated papers, 1844-1921, undated, found loosely enclosed in other parts of the collection (folio 216).