Memorandums. Legal documents.
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and business papers of Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, with memoranda on Acoustics and Judicial Appointments., 1779-1810, undated.
Accounts and memoranda of Charles Herries., 1815-1819.
Agreements and contracts relating to James Thin, bookseller., 1882-1965.
Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.
William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.
Certificate of registration, James Thin, 24 September 1970, also containing memorandum and articles of association, James Thin Limited, 5 March 1973, and correspondence relating to amendment to articles of association, 1970-1989., 1970-1989.
Containing seven items.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume first'., 1748-1753.
At page 135 is the Scotch civil list establishment, 1728.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume second'., 1748-1753.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh’.
Correspondence and memoranda concerning Andrew Stuart's genealogical works., 1788-1799.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
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, membership lists and other papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists’ Society., 1884-1961.
Correspondence, memoranda and other papers concerning the industrial experiments carried out at Culross by Archibald, Earl of Dundonald., 1782-1788.
The papers concern the extraction of tar from coal (folio 1), and improved methods of refining salt (folio 81), and include fragments of corrected page proofs of Archibald, Earl of Dundonald's pamphlet ‘The present state of the manufacture of salt’ (folio 122).
Cravath, Swaine and Moore: memorandum on the history of competition in the EDP market., 1981.
Documents, including accounts, petitions and memorandums, of George Skene and John Skene of Halyards., 1666-1752.
Documents, including bonds and discharges, mainly relating to John Skeyne of Halyards., 1636-1704.
Documents relating to the civilian works placement completed by James Johnston as part of his practical officer training at Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. , 1963-1964
Electoral litigation correspondence and papers., 1790-1792, 1806.
Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich., 1834-1921, undated.
Informal legal papers of the Ker family, including informations, memoranda and inventories of writs., 1615-1744, undated.
“Instruction concernant le service de I'Infanterie légère en campagne” (Londres, 1801); copy owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Macleod and signed by him on the title page., 1801-[before 1813.]
The book contains on blank leaves bound in at the back a memorandum (folio 3) and sketches (folios 8 verso, 11 verso, 12 verso) in pencil apparently in Charles Macleod’s hand, and, in another hand in ink, written also on the flyleaves, biographical notes and extracts from printed sources referring to him.
Legal documents and inventories of writs of the Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow., 1614-1696.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Inventories of writs of Haining and Ballenbreich, circa 1648, of Dunipace and Seabegs, circa 1648, 1654, and of various other properties, 1642-1696 (folio 1);
(ii) Miscellaneous papers and information, 1651-1683, in the lawsuit between the 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and the 1st and 2nd Earls of Callendar (folio 29);
(iii) Informations and legal memoranda, 1614-1696, undated (folio 73).