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Memorandums.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents recording information used for internal communication.

Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook of William Stewart, elder, Deputy Town Clerk, Edinburgh, containing rough notes of a legal nature and memoranda.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19312
Scope and Contents

This may have been the notebook on which William Stewart's fuller protocol book would have been based.

Dates: 1566-1585.

'Notes and Memorandums calculated to refresh the mind of the Writer and to excite Reflection. Partly transcribed from a previous book of Notandums' by Alexander Kincaid Mackenzie.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10992
Scope and Contents Alexander Mackenzie was a merchant who became Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1817. Much of the material is autobiographical and covers the author's life up to 1829. It includes family matters (especially the military career in India of his eldest son, James), finance, and politics with special reference to their effect on trade and the economy. There are also remarks on events in Edinburgh, particularly during Mackenzie's provostship, such as royal visits, the introduction of gas lighting, and...
Dates: [1829, or after.]

Official correspondence sent by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, of Inverneil, to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, chiefly during the former's Governorship of Madras, 1786-1789.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3837-3839
Scope and Contents

The correspondence, which includes lengthy memoranda and minutes by Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell and others, deals in considerable detail with the political, civil, and military affairs of Madras, and covers such subjects as relations with the French, the Dutch, and the Indian Princes, finance, trade, army appointments, contracts, and topography.

Dates: 1785-1794.

Papers chiefly concerning teinds.

 File
Identifier: MS.1547
Scope and Contents The volume contains: ‘Observes concerning tithes’, a series of enactments on the subject, dating from 1631 to 1648 (page 1); ‘Some remarks annent the nullity of tacks of tithes’ (page 14); ‘Remarks annent tithes out of the Acting Commissiary’ (dates from 1627 to 1631) (page 20); ‘Method of procedur in localling augmentation of stipends’ (page 26); ‘Nota annent charters cum decimis inclusis’ (page 47); ‘The summonds intended by King Charles upon his revocation agt. &c.’ (page 53);...
Dates: 1627-1648, 1690-1691.

Papers concerning Kelso racecourse.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9399
Scope and Contents

Includes race notices, 1834-1844 and 1883-1886, photographs, circa 1900-1920, and financial and historial memoranda.

Dates: 1834-1920.

Papers concerning "Writing Together: an International Festival of Writing", Glasgow.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10391
Scope and Contents

Includes reports, memoranda, committee minutes and letters from among others, Sorley MacLean, Naomi Mitchison and Edwin Morgan.

Dates: 1990.

Papers of and concerning Lord Boyd Orr.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6545
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.

Dates: 1938-1971.

Papers of Colonel George Cadell of the Madras Native Infantry, and of the firm of Arbuthnot and Company, merchants and agents in Madras.

 File
Identifier: MS.9861
Scope and Contents

George Cadell's papers, 1814-1837, are chiefly financial and include material on the Deccan prize-money (folio 1). The Arbuthnot papers, 1825-1831, undated, relate chiefly to financial affairs and commerce, with memoranda concerning business administration and the production of fabrics (folio 22).

Dates: 1814-1837, undated.

Papers of James A A Porteous.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7882
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence, memoranda, and minutes concerning the Scottish nationalist movement.

Dates: 1944-1974.

Papers of James Halliday, former chairman of the SNP, and two minute books of the National Party of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13417
Scope and Contents James Halliday (1927-2013) played a pivotal role in stabilising the SNP in the 1950s. He replaced Dr Robert D. McIntyre as chairman of the party in 1956, thus becoming the youngest chairman at the age of 28. However, this promotion was not devoid of problems as internal divisions had to be overcome. By the 1959 election the prospects of the party had started to improve. There were five candidates contesting seats, including Halliday himself who stood once more for Stirling burghs. That same...
Dates: 1928-2005, undated.

Papers of James Porteous.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7505
Scope and Contents

Including minutes, reports and memorandums concerning the Scottish Covenant Association, Scottish Convention, and the Scottish National Development Council Economic Committee.

With editorial correspondence concerning the periodical, "Today and Tomorrow".

Dates: 1935-1970.

Papers of John Blythe Kinross, containing business papers, private correspondence and diaries.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8699/1-58
Scope and Contents Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates: circa 1925-1980.

Papers of John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, concerning lead and copper mining in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.24
Scope and Contents Lord Menmuir was appointed Master of the Metals and Minerals for life in 1592.The papers are part of the Balcarres collection. They were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that they belonged to the collection.The contents are as follows:(i) Observations of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston on the Act of Parliament concerning metals, 1592. ‘Early records relating to mining in Scotland’, 73. Cf. Adv.MS.29.2.9, folio 17. (Folio 1.)(ii)...
Dates: 1567-1596, and undated.

Papers of Major-General Honourable Sir Henry Murray relating to military manoeuvres.

 File
Identifier: MS.15383
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: (i) A memorandum written by Henry Murray between 1805 and 1808 for the assembly and exercise of a corps (folio 1); (ii) Programmes, 1812, of manoeuvres and reviews of the 18th Hussars, in which he was a Lieutenant-Colonel (folio 3); (iii) A memorandum, 1823, of the disposition of review and exercise of a division of cavalry (folio 25).

Dates: 1805-1823.

Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates: c.1970s-1994

Papers of Scotland-UN.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12735