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Unbound membership lists for 1825 (from printed brochure, updated in manuscript); 1844 (watermark date); 1859; 1865; 1864; 1865; 1873; 1922; 1923 and two undated lists, ca. early 20th century).

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Containing eighteen items.

Content Description From the Collection:

The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

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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.

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Alphabatised list of members of the Club, showing names, addresses and subscriptions.

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Papers, mostly late 19th to 20th centuries, of the Highland Society of London, covering the interests of the society; cultural, military, charitable, social and historical.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Laws of the Society. (Folio 1.) (ii) List of meetings for each session, with the name of the speaker and the title of his 'discourse', November 1764–January 1771 (folio 3 verso). Occasionally the elections of new members or the names of absentees are recorded. 'There is a gap in the Records for the next 5 years, and the only information we have of their Transactions during the years 1771 and 1773 is from a loose jotting, of which the following is a copy'...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...

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A few newspaper cuttings and menus for Club Dinners have been pasted in to the minute book (folios 1-96). Additional material includes occasional verses, further menus and illustrations, and an Appendix listing the membership between 1778-1939 (folios 103-107), Directions for the Club Officer (folios 109-110), an Inventory of Club property (folios 111-112), Directions for the Watchmen, (folios 112-113), and Club Rules (folio 114).

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The minute-book is apparently of operative house-carpenters and joiners (see folio 9), with a list of members and letters to divisions at Glasgow, London, Leith, and Dunfermline.

Scope and Contents The minute book records regular meetings up to 1939, followed by the Secretary's memorandum of 1966 recommending the winding up of the club and the disposal of its property, with members' assents thereto (folios 78-82). Additional material includes club songs for 1842 and 1843 (folios 136-137); the Glasgow Skating Club Rules, 1875; ‘The Edinburgh Skating Club, with diagrams of figures and a list of members’, (Edinburgh, 1875) (folios 138-150); ‘Skating diagrams’ by Charles A Stevenson, 1881...

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With lists of members, 1868-1874 (folios 7, 25-27), 'Agreement for the Construction of the Curling Pond', 1868, (folio 8), and results of matches, 1894-1895 (folio 51).