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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:

Papers and correspondence of the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9872/1-178
Scope and Contents Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates: circa 1678-circa 1907.

Papers and correspondence relating to Lochgelly and Melgund estates., 1620-1858.

 File
Identifier: MS.13299
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Accounts, correspondence and memoranda relating to gardens at Lochgelly and Melgund, 1726-1742 (folio 1);(ii) Inventories of deed, 1620-1793 (folio 31);(iii) Account of the family of Kinninmound of that Ilk, compiled by Andrew Chalmer, writer in Edinburgh, circa 1740. Another copy of this appears in Walter MacFarlane's genealogical collections, Adv.MS.35.4.8(ii), page 487 (volume 2, page 531 of the Scottish History Society edition,...
Dates: 1620-1858.

Papers and letters of and concerning the 5th and 6th Earl's of Minto., 1890-1941, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12805
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Accounts and legal papers concerning the house at 22 Charles Street, London, 1927 (folio 1); (ii) Letters of Marion, Countess of Minto, to her son, Viscount Melgund (later 6th Earl of Minto), 1937-1941 (folio 37); (iii) Letters of the 5th Earl to his son, Viscount Melgund, 1937-1941 (folio 212); (iv) Letter of Lady Willa Chetwode to her mother, Marion, Countess of Minto, 1941 (folio 247); (v) Letter of Mary Caroline, Countess of Minto, to her son, Viscount...
Dates: 1890-1941, undated.

Papers chiefly concerning building at Yester House and Tweeddale Court, and various household inventories., [Circa 1697]-1910, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14552
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts and correspondence, 1729-1910, undated, chiefly concerning building at Yester House (folio 1);(ii) Registered bond of servitude, 1732, by William Smellie, mason, to the City of Edinburgh (folio 151);(iii) Tack, 1740, between the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale and John Home, coach-maker, concerning the former’s coach-house in St. Mary Street (folio 135);(iv) Letter, 1797, of Robert Somerville concerning the...
Dates: [Circa 1697]-1910, undated.

Papers, chiefly financial and legal, of the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale., [Circa 1694]-1739.

 File
Identifier: MS.14499
Scope and Contents The papers consist of the following: (i) Family financial and legal papers, 1697-1732, of the Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale (folio 1); (ii) Draft, circa 1694, in the hand of the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale, endorsed: 'Draught of a paper for securing the jewel of the family' (folio 19); (iii) Legal and financial papers, 1699-1739, undated, including accounts, relating to the claim of Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale and the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale on the Dundonald estate (folio...
Dates: [Circa 1694]-1739.

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.

Papers, chiefly political, of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1422-1444.

 File
Identifier: MS.14516
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1722-1734, concerning the election of Scottish representative peers (folio 1);(ii) Notes, undated, of speeches to be made in the House of Lords (folio 69);(iii) Papers, 1717-1744, being largely accounts, concerning Scottish Customs, Excise, Crown revenue, and offices (folio 90);(iv) Papers, 1742, concerning Glasgow brewers and the Excise (folio 159);(v) Copies of papers, 1735-1740, concerning...
Dates: 1422-1444.