Menus.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists of dishes to be served or available for meals.
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts of the Murrays of Ochtertyre., 1737-1747.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21106-21107
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
1737-1747.
Breakfast menu of the S S Maaskerk., 28 July 1941.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5640/29
Scope and Contents
Picked up in the sea off Skye, 30 July 1941.
Dates:
28 July 1941.
Corrections and additions by the first Earl of Cromer in an advance proof of a speech he afterwards delivered on Free Trade and Protection to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Unionist Free Trade Club on 10 January 1908.
File
Identifier: MS.2250
Scope and Contents
Also included are three letters to the donor, James MacLehose, the Glasgow printer (including one from Lord Cromer accompanying the corrected proof), the final printed copy of the speech and the menu and toast list of the luncheon at which the speech was delivered.
Dates:
[1908, or before.]
Correspondence and menus of Book Tokens Ltd, relating to dinner for David Ainslie Thin retrial as chairman and director, and reunion for ex-directors., 1995, 2000.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/212
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1995, 2000.
Correspondence and papers concerning publications of Seton Gordon., 1914-1970, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 20(1)-(11)
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.
Dates:
1914-1970, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Salis Daiches., Circa 1898-1945, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12278/1-40
Correspondence, membership lists and other papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists’ Society., 1884-1961.
File
Identifier: MS.21663
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Correspondence, 1886, 1896, 1906, 1927, 1943-1944, 1947-1950, 1961. Much of this relates to the demise of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society in 1950, and to its absorption by the Edinburgh Society of Musicians. The correspondence of 1961 with Miss M P Linton of the National Library of Scotland includes a catalogue of the 18th century collections held by the Harmonists. (Folio 1.)(ii) Membership lists, 1884, 1932, and historical...
Dates:
1884-1961.
Domestic accounts and menus of the household of the Countess of Eglinton.
File
Identifier: MS.15913
Dates:
1733-1735, 1741-1742.
Drafts of and notes for speeches made by the 4th Earl of Minto, with miscellaneous tickets, menus, seating plans, etc., 1911-1912.
File
Identifier: MS.12801
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1911-1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to his time in India.
Family and miscellaneous papers of Charles Murray., 1866-?1941, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27285
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Family papers of the Murray and Robbie families, 1866-1926, undated (folio 1). They include genealogical material and a few family letters. (ii) Miscellaneous papers of Charles Murray, 1890-?1941, undated (folio l9).
Dates:
1866-?1941, undated.
Family photographs largely of William Baillie Dickson and his wife Jessie.
File
Identifier: Acc.12873
Scope and Contents
Includes family certificates and menu card of Hamilton Bowling Club Burns Supper, 1952.
Dates:
circa 1900-1968.
Household account book for Ochtertyre and Fowlis Easter with daily menus and lists of expenditures., 1737-1739.
Item
Identifier: MS.21106
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
1737-1739.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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Accounts of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
Memorandum of menus, undated, of Cecilia Combe., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7467
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Menu from dinner in honour of Dr Janet Adam Smith, on the occasion of the opening of the De Quincey exhibition in NLS.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9101
Scope and Contents
With signatures of participants.
Dates:
1985.
Menu from ‘La Toundra’ restaurant, Expo 67, probably in Montreal., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11628/322
Minute book covering general and special meetings of the Edinburgh Skating Club and latterly giving some seasonal reports., 1784-1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.24641
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1784-1888.
Minute book of the Edinburgh Skating Club., 1889-1966.
Item
Identifier: MS.24642
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...
Dates:
1889-1966.
Minute book of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, containing copies of printed programmes and accounts, dinner menus, letters, press cuttings, and other ephemera., 1887-1912.
File
Identifier: MS.21588
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...
Dates:
1887-1912.
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir., 1957, 1975, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/319-323
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1957, 1975, undated.
Miscellaneous Indian speeches, dinner menus and seating plans, and articles on the 4th Earl of Minto's administration., 1905-1913, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12800
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
1905-1913, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to his time in India.
Miscellaneous papers, including notes by Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun, list of sugar prices in 1762, note of fruit supplied to Lady Milton, 1773, and three long series of dinner and supper menus, 1766., Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17850
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Miscellaneous papers of Florence Marian McNeill including testimonials, newspaper cuttings about contemporary women authors, and other material., 1899-1961, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26256
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.
Dates:
1899-1961, undated.