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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook of Andrew Rule, a schoolmaster in Aberdeenshire.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.12
Scope and Contents

As well as teaching in a number or local schools, mostly in the parish of Glenmuick, Rule taught book-keeping, navigation and arithmetic to private pupils. His notebook includes accounts, lists of books, minutes of visits to the schools by the committee of the presbytery, and reflections on the events of the year. These last are mostly of a religious nature, but he mentions his own and his children`s affairs and (folio 48) the political events of 1745.

Dates: 1713-1755.

Notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.17
Scope and Contents (i) Note of decisions (folio 1).(ii) Note of expenses (folio 1 verso).(iii) Note of expenses in London, 1667 (Crawford, page 180) (folio 2).(iv) Note of expenses (folio 3).(v) Journal of travels in England and Scotland, 1667-1670 (Crawford, pages 167-204, omitting folios 39-40) (folios 4-46).(vi) Observations on Public Affairs, 1669-1670 (Crawford, pages 228-236) (folios 46-34).(vii) Accounts, 1670-1671 (Crawford, pages...
Dates: 1667-1676.

Notebook of Thomas Ruddiman, containing mainly details of his personal expenditure.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5047
Scope and Contents

The notebook also includes accounts of money disbursed by Thomas Ruddiman as Assistant Librarian of the Advocates' Library.

Dates: 1702-1713.

Notebook signed 'John Halkerston', kept, apparently, by Lord Colvill of Ochiltree's factor.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5290
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains notes of financial transactions, 1709-1719, and a separate account of 1768.

Dates: 1709-1719, 1768.

Papers and correspondence of the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9872/1-178
Scope and Contents Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates: circa 1678-circa 1907.

Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).

 File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates: 17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.

Papers concerning estate management in the highlands.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.5639
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. letter book, 1806-1824, concerning the Glenlyon Estate

2. accounts and papers, 1896-1914, concerning Barcaldine

3. ledger, 1848-1854, of Sir Alexander Campbell

4. index, 18th century.

Dates: circa 1700-1914.

Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Auchinleck, Ayrshire.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6632
Scope and Contents

Including estate accounts, legal papers and correspondence.

Dates: 1856-1940.

Papers concerning the Peebleshire Society, compiled and collected by James R Patterson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4537
Scope and Contents

Including copies of minutes and accounts and press cuttings.

Dates: 20th century.

Papers concerning the visit the Marquess of Salisbury to Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6032
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, accounts and press cuttings.

Dates: 1882.

Papers of Adam Elder, emigrant to Australia.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13214
Scope and Contents Papers, 1902–1927, of Adam Elder (1879-1961), emigrant to Australia. Adam Elder was born in Hawick, Scotland, in 1879. After serving an apprenticeship to the joiner trade, he moved to Glasgow where he acquired significant knowledge of building construction and trained in sanitary science. In 1903 he was appointed Assistant Sanitary Inspector of the Burgh of Port Glasgow and in 1906 he became Sanitary Inspector and Inspector of Cleansing of the same authority. Adam Elder emigrated to...
Dates: 1902-1927.

Papers of and concerning Margaret Macpherson Grant.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8054
Scope and Contents

Comprising cash books, accounts, legal documents, and correspondence, including letters concerning sugar estates in Jamaica owned by her.

Dates: 1848-1878.

Papers of and relating to Sir Walter Scott and his literary property.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13422
Scope and Contents

Agreements, memoranda, letters, notes and drafts of Sir Walter Scott with his publishers Archibald Constable and Robert Cadell, and his printers, James Ballantyne, concerning Scott`s literary property. Included are a draft of the deed of 1819 selling the copyright of Scott`s novels and poems to Constable, and a letter of John Gibson Lockhart to Archibald Constable concerning his proposal for a Scott edition of Shakespeare, 1823.

Dates: 1817-1826

Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12591
Scope and Contents

Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.

Dates: 1529-1925.