Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: forged One Pound Note of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, 1810 (folio 31); petition of Nathaniel Gow for a pension, with correspondence, 1826 (folio 32); letter signed by four Principal Clerks of Session (including Thomas Thomson) relating to the accounts for office room, etc., 1848 (folio 48); letter of Duncan McNeill, afterwards 1st Baron Colonsay, 1848 (folio 50); letter of Charles Neaves, Solicitor-General, to William Edmonstoune Aytoun, Sheriff of Orkney,...

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Also includes an email, 2012, of Morag McAlpine concerning a development at 33-34 Huntly Road, Glasgow, with a related circular letter.

The 'Sheaf of refusals' folder includes a $1 bill and a copy of 'Private eye' magazine, no 1030, 15-28 June 2001.

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Written partly on four 50 million Mark notes.

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Records concerning the activities of Derek Suttie relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014, specifically through engagement with Workers Educational Association (WEA) Scotland, Adult Learning Project (ALP) Edinburgh and Crisis (part of The Salvation Army).

Scope and Contents Nancy Forsyth was born Nancy Gray in Grantown-on-Spey and educated at Grantown Grammar School. She worked for the Post Office and Royal Bank of Scotland in Inverness, where her husband Willie Forsyth was a colleague. She became actively involved in politics after signing the Scottish Covenant in 1951, working first as a branch organiser for the Liberal Party in Inverness. She had joined and started to actively canvass for the Scottish National Party by the Pollok by-election in March 1967,...

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Ephemera includes:

Souvenir programme, ‘Roman Theatre, Hippone, North Africa’, 14 June 1944. Temporary notes issues in 1944 by the Bank of Algeria. Half-million Drachma note, 1944. Italian banknote, 1935. Concert programme, Constant Lambert conducting the Friends of Music Symphony Concert, December 1944.

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The scrapbooks contain letters, circulars, verse, press-cuttings, burgess-tickets, stamps, bank-notes, and miscellaneous papers of and relating to the Greenshields family. In particular, the scrapbooks reflect John Blackwood Greenshield's interest in antiquarian matters and local politics.