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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:

Personal and miscellaneous papers of Andrew Stuart., 1746-1791.

 File
Identifier: MS.8325
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1746-1759, concerning Andrew Stuart's legal training, including his contract of apprenticeship, and his admission to the Society of Writers to the Signet (folio 1);(ii) Inventories, 1767-1787, of personal and household possessions (folio 12).(iii) Catalogues and lists of books, 1771-1783 (folio 54).(iv) Accounts of household expenses, 1775-1777 (folio 92).(v) Accounts of horse and carriage...
Dates: 1746-1791.

Personal and official correspondence of Charles Steuart, including accounts., 1747-1798, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5025-5041
Scope and Contents The personal correspondence is mostly between Charles Steuart his sister, Mrs Cecilia Ruddoch, Kirkwall, Orkney, and his brother, James Steuart, writer in Edinburgh. It also includes letters from his nephews Thomas Ruddach (a merchant in Tobago), Charles Ruddach (a merchant in Grenada), Alexander Ruddach (who served for a time in the Navy), and William Steuart (who was Assistant Resident at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad). The official correspondence is mostly between...
Dates: 1747-1798, undated.

Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13491
Scope and Contents Rosemary Hall was born on 22nd April 1925 in Aberdeen. She spent her early life in Montrose where her father and uncle ran the family salmon fishing business. Hall began her schooling in Montrose. However, the outbreak of the war caused interruption and her school was evacuated to Speyside. She began her working life as a PA to a partner in a firm of accountants in Edinburgh. Although Hall gave up her job after marriage, she did not stop working; she was against nuclear power in all forms...
Dates: 1947-2010