Calculations.
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Account-book containing details of income and personal expenditure, apparently of Alexander Anderson, merchant and burgess of Edinburgh, son of James Anderson of Newbigging, advocate.
Although the volume does not contain the owner's name, it seems clear that it belonged to Alexander Anderson (folio 3).
Loose leaves containing supplementary calculations have been inserted in their correct chronological location, as far as possible.
Accounts of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton., 1718-1744.
Accounts of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton., 1745-1765, undated.
Accounts of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, chiefly drafts, rough notes, and calculations., 1718-1765, undated.
Also included are some unbound notebooks similar to the account books and memoranda books.
Astronomical observations and calculations of distance, 1 January-26 August 1859, by David Livingstone; with two pages of poetry in the Tette dialect., 1859.
Calculations of sums due by shareholders in the Darien Company., ?1698.
'Chronometer rates'., 1834.
"Collection of rules for Navigation selected principally for the pupils attending Mr Crawford's school in Leith. 1817."
A copy of J G Crawford's rules, probably by Captain Henry Harper, who served his apprenticeship from 1832 to 1837. It is followed (folio 46 verso) by miscellaneous rules, mathematical calculations, and notes chiefly concerned with the measuring of cargoes for revenue purposes. There are also brief notes on Harper's career (folio 50) and on that of an official in the customs, 1848-1850 (folio 71).
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
Correspondence and calculations, share dividend payments, of James Thin., 1989-2001.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Drawing, plans and measures of and for buildings on the Minto estate., Late 18th century-1875, undated.
Edinburgh and Yester accounts., 1683-1716.
Exercise book of William Chalmers, while a student at Marischal College, Aberdeen, containing chiefly mathematical calculations and problems, and notes on Euclid., 1714-1715.
Between folios 25 verso and 42 there are lists of books belonging to Dr Chalmers and to William Chalmers.
Interest accounts of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1775-1792.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Interest account between the trustees on the estate of Dundas and John Dundas, Writer to the Signet, 17 April 1775-17 January 1785. Some of the material is duplicated or overlapping. It includes calculations of interest (folio 1).
(ii) Interest account between George Dundas of Dundas (died 1792) and John Dundas, Writer to the Signet, 29 April 1785-6 February 1792: account and vouchers (folio 49).
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Jinarajadasa to Johnson, Celia., 1807-1926.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Hoyos to Hubbard., 1865-1914.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Lester to Levo., 1808-1919.
'Lists and States referred to in the Report of the Third Investigation of the Widow's Fund of the Faculty of Advocates'.
Manuscript material of David Livingstone, additional to MSS.10707-10756: Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Graham concerning his estate., 1808-[circa 1812.]
The contents are as follows: (i) Lists, 1808-1809, by Thomas Graham of his brood mares and working mares in Scotland; with tree planting and other estate instructions, 1810-1811, sent from Spain; (ii) Memoranda on a new ‘Back lane’ road, and costings of estate work, [circa 1812] (folio 1 (inverted)).
Miscellany of journal drafts and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto associated with MSS.11991-11992., 1787, 1830, undated.
Miscellany of papers, chiefly undated, chiefly of J B S Haldane, including notes, memoranda, reports and mathematical calculations concerning diving, [1942-1944.]
Some papers are in the hands of others, including Helen Spurway, who were involved in the work.