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Accounts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents in which monies or goods received and paid or given out are recorded in order to permit periodic totaling. This term was not used in the published volumes of the 'Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925'. Such records were indexed under the subject terms Housekeeping or Prices.

Found in 3038 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, volume VIII: papers on various topics., 1680-1725.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.2(VIII)
Scope and Contents The contents include: papers on ‘Diplomata Scotiae’, especially Anderson`s attempts to obtain payment from Parliament; a proposal to give Anderson`s books to the Faculty of Advocates; a memorandum on the Leighton Library in Dunblane; notes on Sir Robert Sibbald`s Library (referring to ‘Bibliotheca Sibbaldiana’, pages 138-140); papers concerning Anderson`s wife, Jean Ellis, the widow and family of David Pringle, Surgeon Apothecary, and the Campbells of Calder; various household accounts;...
Dates: 1680-1725.

Correspondence and papers of James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde, concerning the Grant trust., 1929-1944.

 File
Identifier: MS.24722
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Further Grant Trust correspondence and papers, 1940-1944 (folio 1); (ii) Copy, agreement and deed of trust between the trustees of the National Library, and Sir Alexander Grant and his trustees, January 1929 (folio 93); (iii) Copies of supplementary agreements (2) between the same parties, March-April 1933 and August-September 1935 (folio 103); (iv) Copy, memorandum by Lord Clyde on the Grant Trust, 24 June 1939 (folio 121); (v) Manuscript draft and...
Dates: 1929-1944.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Newhailes., 1849-1961, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25534-25572
Scope and Contents Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates: 1849-1961, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Henry Lindsay Bethune.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8959
Scope and Contents

Concerning Bethune`s military career in Persia.

Including instructions, firmans (royal mandate or decree), commissions and bills.

Dates: 1813-1851.

Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1781-1786, 1793, undated.

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Identifier: MS.11198
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and papers concerning the administration of the Penitentiary Act, 1781-1786, 1793, undated (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and papers concerning experiments on the growing of tobacco in Scotland and the duty on home-grown tobacco, 1781-1785 (folio 86).

Dates: 1781-1786, 1793, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to private affairs in India., 1910-1912.

 File
Identifier: MS.12793
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence and papers concerning the settlement of accounts between the 4th Earl of Minto and Lord Hardinge, 1910-1911 (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and papers relating to the 4th Earl's stable accounts, 1911-1912 (folio 63); (iii) List of the contents of packing cases sent home, 1910 (folio 143).

Dates: 1910-1912.

Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1802-mid 20th century, undated.

Correspondence and political papers of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple., 1714-1748, undated.

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Identifier: MS.25281
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple, 1721-1748, undated, with two letters to Lady Christian Dalrymple, 1746, undated. Written from London and Hanover, they contain much of political interest. A letter from General James Sinclair describes the Battle of Dettingen in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1743. Also letters on plans for the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and tiends of Prestonkirk, East Lothian, 1729-1742 (folio 1); (ii) Political and...
Dates: 1714-1748, undated.