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Registers (lists).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Official lists of entries of any information considered sufficiently important to be exactly and formally recorded, typically maintained in numerical or chronological order in a regular manner.

Found in 169 Collections and/or Records:

Licence registers of the Bible Board for Scotland., 1859-1946.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11182/13-14
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: In the early 19th century there was much public complaint about the cost and quality of Bibles produced on both sides of the Border where the respective King's printers enjoyed monopoly rights to the printing of acts of Parliament, proclamations, the Authorised Version of the Bible, the metrical psalms, catechism, etc (in England the universities of Oxford and Cambridge also had the Bible printing privilige). When the existing Scottish patent expired in 1839, new letters patent were issued...
Dates: 1859-1946.

Microfilm comprising a copy of the surviving portion of the journal, 1799, of Agnes Ranken, kept during her voyage to India; a copy of MSS.8832-8863: Journal, 1801-1811, of Jessy Harden; and the Register of Documents compiled by Arundel S Clay., 1799-[20th century].

 File
Identifier: MS.8873 [Mf.MSS.143]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.

Dates: 1799-[20th century].

Miscellaneous financial records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman', and 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'., 1852-1972.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11812/135-144
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The surviving business records of 'The Scotsman', 'The Weekly Scotsman' and 'The Evening Dispatch', consisting largely of financial records, 1832 to 1964. Other records have survived only sporadically. These include minutes of directors, 1868-1880, and for the 1940s and 1950s, records of debenture stock, office diaries for 1915 and 1941, and papers of libel cases brought against the newspaper.The second part of the archive consists of titles and other administrative records,...
Dates: 1852-1972.

Miscellaneous letters and documents collected by William Finlay Watson, many of which have not been identified., 1691-early 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.599
Scope and Contents The contents include letters to the Master of Stair, 1691 (folios 13-17); cuttings from the Register of the Tolbooth Prison, Edinburgh, 1736 (folios 39-40); copy of a letter of the Earl of Hertford, Ambassador in France, to the Earl of Halifax, 1763, in the handwriting of David Hume, then acting as secretary to Hertford (folios 44-45); letter of John Witherspoon acknowledging receipts, 1790 (folio 52); letter of Bishop Percy regarding Macpherson’s ‘Ossian’, 1805 (folio 61); fragments of an...
Dates: 1691-early 20th century.

Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester., 1509-mid 20th century, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14778-14827
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: 1509-mid 20th century, undated.