Memorandums. Legal documents.
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and business papers of Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, with memoranda on Acoustics and Judicial Appointments., 1779-1810, undated.
Accounts and memoranda of Charles Herries., 1815-1819.
In several of the volumes, some or most of the accounts have been cancelled by lines drawn through them.
Agreements and contracts relating to James Thin, bookseller., 1882-1965.
Certificate of registration, James Thin, 24 September 1970, also containing memorandum and articles of association, James Thin Limited, 5 March 1973, and correspondence relating to amendment to articles of association, 1970-1989., 1970-1989.
Containing seven items.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume first'., 1748-1753.
At page 135 is the Scotch civil list establishment, 1728.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume second'., 1748-1753.
Correspondence and memoranda concerning Andrew Stuart's genealogical works., 1788-1799.
Andrew Stuart was a noted lawyer and politician. As lawyer he acted as agent for some important Scottish noble families, in particular the Dukes of Hamilton; as politician he represented Lanarkshire in Parliament, and was a member of the Board of Trade in Lord North's administration. The papers here are almost entirely of a legal and personal nature.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]
Correspondence, membership lists and other papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists’ Society., 1884-1961.
Correspondence, memoranda and other papers concerning the industrial experiments carried out at Culross by Archibald, Earl of Dundonald., 1782-1788.
The papers concern the extraction of tar from coal (folio 1), and improved methods of refining salt (folio 81), and include fragments of corrected page proofs of Archibald, Earl of Dundonald's pamphlet ‘The present state of the manufacture of salt’ (folio 122).
Cravath, Swaine and Moore: memorandum on the history of competition in the EDP market., 1981.
Professional papers as counsel, 1979-89, of David A O Edward, QC, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, 1985-9, and from 1989 a Judge of the European Community Court of the First Instance.
Documents, including accounts, petitions and memorandums, of George Skene and John Skene of Halyards., 1666-1752.
Documents, including bonds and discharges, mainly relating to John Skeyne of Halyards., 1636-1704.
Documents relating to the civilian works placement completed by James Johnston as part of his practical officer training at Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. , 1963-1964
Electoral litigation correspondence and papers., 1790-1792, 1806.
Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich., 1834-1921, undated.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Informal legal papers of the Ker family, including informations, memoranda and inventories of writs., 1615-1744, undated.
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
“Instruction concernant le service de I'Infanterie légère en campagne” (Londres, 1801); copy owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Macleod and signed by him on the title page., 1801-[before 1813.]
The book contains on blank leaves bound in at the back a memorandum (folio 3) and sketches (folios 8 verso, 11 verso, 12 verso) in pencil apparently in Charles Macleod’s hand, and, in another hand in ink, written also on the flyleaves, biographical notes and extracts from printed sources referring to him.
Legal documents and inventories of writs of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow., 1614-1696.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Inventories of writs of Haining and Ballenbreich, circa 1648, of Dunipace and Seabegs, circa 1648, 1654, and of various other properties, 1642-1696 (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous papers and information, 1651-1683, in the lawsuit between the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and the 1st and 2nd Earls of Callendar (folio 29);
(iii) Informations and legal memoranda, 1614-1696, undated (folio 73).
Legal documents concerning the families of Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance., 1631-1829, undated.
Letters of friends and other contemporaries of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Wilfred Partington for a grangerized copy of his ‘Private Letter-books of Sir Walter Scott’., 1799-1857.
The letters include correspondence and memoranda relating to the charges brought by Lady Douglas against the Princess of Wales in 1805. Many of the letters are addressed to the painter David Roberts. In addition, there are a few letters of the painter John Macwhirter.
Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Southey, Charles Erskine and other correspondents., 1807-1830, undated.
Also included are some lines from 'Glenfinlas' (not in Walter Scott's hand), a spurious memorandum purporting to be by Scott and two portraits.
Part of the letter to John Clarke Whitfeld was published by Sir Herbert J C Grierson in ‘The letters of Sir Walter Scott’, volume iii, page 194.