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2 letter-books of an unidentified Scottish law firm
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1531, Volume: data_value_missing_044bad0cd209d0fc001ac418e9779b16, Volume: Coll-1699 / SC-Acc-2016-0001
Identifier: Coll-1699
Content Description
The correspondence suggests that this was an Edinburgh-based law practice, with the majority of letters emanating from city addresses.There are 2 volumes with information on the spines showing:
Letter Book No. 3 - 18th May 1956 - 21st Aug. 1956
Letter Book No. 5 - 9th Dec. 1956 - 31st Mar. 1957
The volumes came from The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society Ltd., Hope Street, Glasgow. They hold reference numbers: No.5354 Date.1956...
Dates:
1956-1957
5 x documents: notarial instruments relating to lands in Nether Carlowrie, west of Edinburgh, and in Invertiel, 1528-1566. Marks of 16th century Scottish notaries
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1747
Scope and Contents
5 x documents - notarial instruments - being:
Invertiel, 13 November 1528
Nether Carlowrie, 23 January 1529
Nether Carlowrie, 22 June 1535
Nether Carlowrie, 23 February 1540
Nether Carlowrie, 19 April 1566At the foot, each document bears a fine penned mark of a 16th century Scottish notary. Old folds, contemporary endorsements.
Dates:
1528-1566
12 stereo views of Scotland, 1891, B. W. Kilburn, Littleton NH
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1554
Scope and Contents
The views are of:
6322 Oban, its harbour, and Mull, Scotland
6310 Loch Katrine Boat Landing, Highlands, Scotland
6303 Birthplace of Robert Burns, Ayr, Scotland
6297 The Bonnie Doon, Burns' Lullaby, Ayr, Scotland
6292 Melrose Abbey, Scotland
6280 Sir William Wallace's Prison, Dumbarton Castle, Scotland
6238 John...
Dates:
1880-1910
18th century and 19th century legal documents some in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-622
Identifier: Coll-1553
Scope and Contents
The collection of legal documents is composed of:
1 x Discharge by William Pirie in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex Blake, 15 May 1890. Of a Bond and Disposition in Security of £400 over subjects in Grove Street, Edinburgh. Andrew Urquhart SSC Edinburgh
1 x Disposition by Thomas Fairweather Weir with consent, In favour of Sophia Jex Blake MD. 1884. Subject 6 Grove Street, Edinburgh. Andrew Urquhart...
Dates:
1786-1890
A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1594
Identifier: Coll-2027
Content Description
A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication history of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen, from the archives of its publisher Victor Gollancz. A small quantity of typed and holograph contracts, correspondence and associated materials, between and concerning Duncan Glen, his publisher, and other interested parties. Includes 23 ALS and Typed Letters Signed (TLS) from Duncan Glen, and TLS from Tony Benn, Jo Grimond and contributor...
Dates:
1970-1977
Account of a trip to the Western Isles and St. Kilda
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1430
Scope and Contents
Manuscript account of a 'Pedestrian tour round the west coast of Scotland in 1849', in August of that year, followed by an account of a 'Trip aboard the Free Kirk Breadalbane yacht with 3 ministers to St. Kilda, Staffa, and back' in 1850.
The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda
The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda
Dates:
1849-1850
Affleck, James Whigham
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-64
Scope and Contents
Papers regarding rehabilitation 1957-1988; membership of Boards 1969-1981; miscellaneous papers 1969-1988; published papers 1947-1989; slides; Royal Medico-Psychological Association material 1927
Dates:
1927-1989
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Album of sketches by Sir James Skene of Rubislaw
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2019
Content Description
This is an album of sketches by Sir James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), comprising approximately 420 sketches. A talented amateur artist, James Skene of Rubislaw was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott who accompanied him on riding excursions to localities that Scott planned to feature in his novels and poems. There, at Scott’s suggestion, Skene made sketches of landscapes and buildings that Scott then used as an inspiration and aide-memoire for his own work. Many of the sketches in this album...
Dates:
c 1804-c 1830
Alderston Convalescent Home
Fonds
Identifier: LHB19
Scope and Contents
Admissions registers 1939-1956; wages records 1948
Dates:
1939-1956
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Alison, William Pulteney
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-4
Scope and Contents
Notes by unidentified student from lectures by W. P. Alison on the Institutes of Medicine 1828 and 1830
Dates:
1828-1830
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
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