Receipts. Financial records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written acknowledgment of the receiving or taking of goods or money delivered or paid.
Found in 939 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous papers of John Spottiswoode, Advocate., 1698-1718, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.658
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) ‘Act [i.e., Bill] for erecting the Advocats into a Society. 27 Jany. 1701’ (folio 1);(ii) Similar draft, undated (folio 2);(iii) Lists of advocates, 1661-1710 (folio 4);(iv) Printed petition to the Court of Session by the Dean and Faculty of Advocates and others regarding valuation of the burgh of Edinburgh by the stent masters, 1707 (folio 14);(v) Draft of formal receipt by John Spottiswoode of the...
Dates:
1698-1718, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir Charles Dalrymple found loosely enclosed in his journals (MSS.25568-25629), 1861-1916, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25631
Scope and Contents
With one letter to John Adam Fergusson, 1908.
Dates:
1861-1916, undated.
Miscellaneous Papers of Sir William Forbes., 1813-1827.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/67-69
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1813-1827.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Papers of Sir William Forbes, 7th Bart. of Monymusk and Pitsligo.
Miscellaneous papers of the Incorporation of Candlemakers, Edinburgh, including deeds and other legal documents, boxmasters' accounts, extracts from the minutes, memoranda and reports., 1569-1884, 1913, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.254-277
Scope and Contents
The later papers consist almost entirely of tradesmen’s bills and receipts.
Dates:
1569-1884, 1913, undated.
Miscellaneous papers relating to militia, and correspondence and papers relating to county affairs., 1746-1827.
File
Identifier: MS.10896
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Miscellaneous papers relating to militia, including clothing bills and receipts, muster rolls, commissions, etc., 1746, 1778, 1803-1827, undated (folio 1);(ii) Correspondence and papers relating to county affairs: letters of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet of Duntreath, M.P. for Stirlingshire, to Thomas Graham Stirling, 1811-1819 (folio 61); papers relating to the Corn Law, 1810, 1814 (folio 122); papers relating to the property...
Dates:
1746-1827.
Miscellaneous receipts and accounts of Andrew Hunter, some being personal and some relating to the St Andrews Club, Nuwara Eliya., 1847-1862.
File
Identifier: MS.19727
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Andrew Hunter was co-owner with Alexander Hood of the Nanoo Oya and Talawa Kelle coffee estates in Ceylon. As a planter, Hunter was concerned with the road building programme, he was also secretary of the St Andrews Club in Nuwara Eliya, and latterly was involved in the administration of the island as a Justice of the Peace. These interests are reflected in his papers which relate to the period 1847-1866 with a concentration on the early 1860's. Andrew Hunter died in 1866 shortly after...
Dates:
1847-1862.
Miscellaneous receipts probably for Fettercairn., 1864-1865.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/768
Scope and Contents
File includes account, charge and discharge relating to Sir John Hepburn Stuart Forbes, 8th Bart. and Mackenzie and Kermack, W.S., and notes on regulations for punishment of minor rural offences.
Dates:
1864-1865.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Receipts and vouchers for Fettercairn estate.
Miscellaneous scripts and related correspondence and papers of David Thomson., 1935-1987, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10129/117-128
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.
Dates:
1935-1987, undated.
Miscellaneous single items and small collections.
File
Identifier: MS.10279
Scope and Contents
The material is predominantly literary and is chiefly confined to the 19th century. Among the more notable items are:Seven letters of Allan Cunningham, 1828-1840, chiefly to Captain Charles Gray of the Royal Marines, with an undated manuscript of the poem 'The standard bearer' published in ‘Poems and songs’ (London, 1847) by Cunningham, under the title 'The Cavalier' (folios 43-59);Papers of James Hogg, including manuscripts of his poems 'A Scottish ballad', circa...
Dates:
1592, 1723-1891, undated.
Miscellaneous small bills and receipts, 1968-1973, and bank statements, 1973-1976, of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, 1968-1976.
File
Identifier: MS.21608
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:
1968-1976.
Miscellaneous small collections of letters and papers.
File
Identifier: MS.1006
Dates:
1620-1837, undated.
Miscellaneous small receipts of Sir Walter Scott, 1807-1831, Lady Scott, 1823, and their sons Walter, 1828-1837, undated, and Charles, 1835-1839., 1807-1839, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1584
Dates:
1807-1839, undated.
Money steward's cash receipt book., 13 October 1931-5 November 1934.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4959/27
Dates:
13 October 1931-5 November 1934.
Money Steward's cash receipt books., 1936-1961.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4725/22-34
Notebook kept by the 4th Earl of Minto containing details of monthly receipts from the coal at Lochgelly., 1891-1914.
Item
Identifier: MS.13302
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates:
1891-1914.
Notebook of John Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, containing his business journal and accounts., 1695-1722.
Item
Identifier: MS.10283
Scope and Contents
There are also notes of John Spotttiswoode’s reading and receipts in his favour.
Dates:
1695-1722.
Notebook of receipts of feu duty on a house in Nether Bannockburn., 1767-1850.
Item
Identifier: MS.9683
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Group:
Walter McCulloch, schoolmaster at St Ninians and session clerk from circa 1779 to 1804, was related to the Wilson family through his daughter Martha, who married Alexander Wilson, younger son of the original William Wilson.
Dates:
1767-1850.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of and concerning the firm of William Wilson and Son, tartan manufacturers in Bannockburn; and concerning the parish of St Ninians, Stirlingshire.
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Papers collected by Walter McCulloch, schoolmaster in St Ninians, in his capacity as session clerk, concerning the parish of St Ninians.
Notes of income, assessment for taxes and public burdens of all kinds, accounts of and receipts for payment., 1761-1834.
File
Identifier: MS.15432
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
1761-1834.
Notes of Mrs Mary Graham, chiefly relating to the care of the poor., 1783-1791, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3635
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
'No. 1. Old cloaths given out', and notes on the poor about Balgowan, 1783-1791 (folio 1);
'No. 2. Books recommended to me', perhaps intended for Sunday Schools, etc. (folio 17);
'No. 3. Receipts', chiefly medical, ?1786 (folio 25);
'No. 4.' Notes on the poor, 1787 (folio 33).
Dates:
1783-1791, undated.
Official military papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Quartermaster-General to the army in the Spanish Peninsula., [Circa 1811]-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14555-14557
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
[Circa 1811]-1813.
Original papers, including bonds and receipts, chiefly 17th century, probably collected by Robert Paul, the minister., 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5151
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Robert Paul, manager of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, married Charlotte, the daughter of John Erskine of Cambus, advocate, in 1814. The connection of the Pauls with the Erskines of Alva, and later with the Erskine Murrays, remained strong, and the antiquarian interests of the Reverend Robert Paul, Free Church minister at Dollar, led him to examine many of the Erskine papers. Some of these remained with the Paul’s and now form part of the collection.
Dates:
17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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Correspondence and papers of the Paul family.
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Papers concerning the education, careers, activities and interests of the Paul family.
Papers and correspondence relating to Robert Davidson of Aberdeen, pioneer of electric traction, with miscellaneous printed bills and leaflets relating to his work., 1841-1843, 1850.
File
Identifier: MS.19989, folios 200-242
Dates:
1841-1843, 1850.
Papers and records relating to the climbing of the north face of the Eiger., 1966-2018.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14376/1-10
Scope and Contents
The records here all relate to the climbing of the Eiger by a British-American team in March 1966.
Theys here include route plans, notes, receipts and photographs, as well as tapes recording communication between the climbers on the mountain face and their support team at Kleine Scheidegg.
Dates:
1966-2018.
Papers, chiefly 18th century, concerning the Court of Session., 1531-1761, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17538
Scope and Contents
The papers begin with copies of papal documents on the foundation of the College of Justice, and include also papers on judges' salaries, receipts by Lord Milton for his salary, petitions of the macers and clerks, acts of sederunt, and papers on points of law.
Dates:
1531-1761, undated.
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.