Collection BAL - Papers relating to Sir Andrew Balfour

Identity area

Reference code

GB 235 RBG/1/BAL

Title

Papers relating to Sir Andrew Balfour

Date(s)

  • 1691 - 1872 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 box, 8cm

Context area

Name of creator

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Creator)
(1670-present)

Administrative history

Repository

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Archives

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

• GB 235 BAL/1 Folder: "Misc. Papers"; including:
Typescripts of extracts from various sources, including
copy Biography of Andrew Balfour by Patrick Neill;
Early Days of the Royal College of Physicians by Peel Ritchie, Edinburgh;
Some Passages from the Life and Death of the Earl of Rochester by Gilbert Burnett (pp4-6);
Balfour's notice in Anderson's Scottish Nation;
marriage and death notices, from Mr John Lamont’s Diary;
auctions of books belonging to Sir Andrew and his brother, Sir James, the Edinburgh Gazette, 1699;
Extracts from Foulis of Ravelston’s Account Book, 1671–1707.
• GB 235 BAL/2 Folder:
Ms. copy of extracts from Memoria Balfouriana (and English translations);
transcript of letter from Robert Sibbald regarding the Memoria Balfouriana, 1699;
“Pharmacy in Edinburgh in the Olden Time,” by James Mackenzie, The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, (1871-1872), Vol.11, pp.444-469, typescript;
founding of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, from Robert Sibbald’s autobiography, pp.20-22, typescript photocopy.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

open

Conditions governing reproduction

permission required from RBGE

Language of material

    Script of material

      Language and script notes

      Physical characteristics and technical requirements

      Finding aids

      Generated finding aid

      royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh-4.pdf

      Allied materials area

      Existence and location of originals

      Copy of 'Memoria Balfouriana' and other material relating to Balfour and the founding of RBGE in the RBGE Rare Book Collection

      Existence and location of copies

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      Description control area

      Description identifier

      BAL

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      Status

      Level of detail

      Partial

      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Archivist's note

          description compiled by J.M. and M.R.

          Accession area