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Permits.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents which grant a person the right to do something not forbidden by law but not allowable without such authority.

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Letters and papers on various subjects., 1575-1824, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3135
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Discharge of Andro Hart, printer, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, 1592 (folio 1);(ii) Discharge of Robert Brysone, printer and bookseller, and Evan Tyler, printer, to Mr George Halyburton for liturgies delivered to the Chapel Royal, Edinburgh, 1637 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of the Earl of Mar to Thomas Kennedy, Lord Advocate of Scotland, demanding an immediate report on the presence of a French ship near Inverkeithing, 1714...
Dates: 1575-1824, undated.

Miscellaneous papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745., 1745-1747.

 File
Identifier: MS.17525
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers, 1745-1746, concerning shipping during the Rising (folio 1);

(ii) Permits to ships and bonds by their masters or owners, 1745-1746 (folio 48);

(iii) Passes and certificates, 1745-1747 (folio 53);

(iv) Reports of prisoners held by the City Guard in Edinburgh, February-September 1746 (folio 139);

(v) Papers concerning the Edinburgh Volunteer Regiment, 1746 (folio 172).

Dates: 1745-1747.

Miscellaneous papers of the Dickson family., 1881-1952, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.13597
Scope and Contents The papers consist of:(i) Unaddressed letters, 1881-1882, of, and papers, undated, concerning Lady (Jane Francisca) Wilde (folio 1);(ii) Description, 1912, by Archibald Kirk Dickson of his entrance interview for Osborne (folio 17);(iii) Photographs, 1912, 1916, of Robert Kirk Dickson and Archibald Kirk Dickson (folio 20);(iv) Miscellaneous press cuttings concerning the First World War (folio 25);(v) Letter, 7 January 1915, of Lord...
Dates: 1881-1952, undated.

Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19245-19250
Scope and Contents

A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

Dates: 1891-1925.

Various miscellaneous papers of Ruthven Todd., 1944-1977, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26886
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Autobiographical notes and papers, circa 1955-1975 (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of a radio interview given by Ruthven Todd, 1974 (folio 8); (iii) Miscellaneous notes and papers, 1944-1977, undated (folio 36).

Dates: 1944-1977, undated.