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23 maps of estates in the area of Lockerbie, from the office of Messrs Cormack and Byers, Writers to the Signet.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7883
Dates:
1758 and 19th century.
Account, with plan, of the division of Langton Common and Langton Moor.
File
Identifier: Acc.5318
Dates:
1769.
Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.20
Scope and Contents
The copy is in Nimmo’s own hand, written up in the form of a journal, from the notes which he took in his pocket-book whilst engaged upon the survey. It is written on the rectos of the leaves, the versos being left for maps (folios 11 verso, 12 verso), notes, bearings, and additions to the text. It appears to be incomplete, for it ends rather abruptly (folio 50). It is followed by an explanatory letter to John Rickman, who at the time was secretary to the commissions for making roads and...
Dates:
1806.
Annotated photocopy, 1989, of xerox copy of map of Orkney in 1931, in two parts.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9965
Scope and Contents
Annotations by Peter MacDonald indicate World War II military installations, together with explanatory correspondence, 1989.
Dates:
1931-1989.
Anonymous description of a proposed route from Port Patrick, Wigtonshire, to Edinburgh for Sir Edward Baker, formely Littlehales, 1st Baronet of Ashcombe, Surrey, with maps and mileage tables.
Item
Identifier: MS.17958
Scope and Contents
This is a carefully planned tour. The writer states his reasons for the selection of the route and for rejecting the alternatives, and comments on the history and contemporary situations of the major settlements en route.
Dates:
1819.
Atlas of plans, 1813, of Ulva, Gometra and Little Colonsay.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9442
Scope and Contents
Includes other plans, undated.
Dates:
1813 and undated.
Atlas of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.9374
Scope and Contents
A volume of county maps outlined in colour, with decorative cartouches in pen and wash. They are preceded by an index (folio i) and a map of the whole of Scotland showing the counties. The maps are based on ‘A general map of Scotland and Islands’ by James Dorret. They include a number of estates and the sites of several battles. The paper has the shield watermark with GR appendage used by James Whatman the younger from about 1762.
Dates:
18th century.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates:
1636-1963.
Business papers of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.216- is now Acc.10706.
Dates:
Circa 1795-1905.
Campaign materials of Yes Scotland for the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13672/1-22
Dates:
?2012-2014.
Copies and photographic and other reproductions of early maps in British and foreign collections.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3024-3027
Dates:
10th century-17th century, undated.
Copy of White Heather calendar, with historical notes and maps of Lachlan Dinwoodie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5489
Dates:
1972.
Copy of William Allan, "History of the Campaign of Gen T J (Stonewall) Jackson", inscribed and marked by Douglas Haig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7135
Scope and Contents
Containing maps and sketches, undated.
Dates:
1888 and undated.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.6.5
Scope and Contents
Tucker had been sent to Scotland in the autumn of 1655 to set up the customs and to re-establish the excise, and his report, dated 20 November 1656, was written after his return to London. The report is followed by an unmarked copy of ‘Rules, Orders and Instructions, Made and Published by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in Scotland ...’ (Edinburgh, 1656) (folio 54), and by `The forme of the Cash or Day Booke to be kept by the severall Collectors of Customs and Excise in...
Dates:
1655-1656.
Correspondence and financial and administrative papers of the Sligo and Smith-Sligo family of Inzievar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8287/1-272
Dates:
1685-1968.
Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.1-46.10.2
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.
Dates:
1793-1846.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert Grieve.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10205
Scope and Contents
Concern Grieve`s work on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other working during his period as a senior and Chief Planner, Scottish Office.
Dates:
circa 1945-1964.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Dates:
Circa 1903-1982, undated.
Correspondence, notes, literary papers and other papers of the Cunninghame Graham family, mostly of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham; and financial and administrative papers relating to Gartmore and Ardoch.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11335/1-227
Dates:
1757-1991.
Digital images of estate maps and plans of properties belonging to the Maxwells of Monreith surveyed by John Gilone.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13374- Map Library.
Dates:
1777-1778
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7488
Scope and Contents
1. Scrapbook inscribed `James Malcolm Palmer Douglas. This book started by his father and continued by his mother, 1948`, with pasted in letters, household accounts and bills for garden seeds, genealogical charts, invitations, menu cards, press cuttings and photographs, 1712-1948, undated.2. Plan of the Cavers Estate the property of James Douglas Esq., 19th century.3. Plan of the Cavers Estate, 19th century.4. Cavers Estate Woods, record of plantations,...
Dates:
18th century to 20th century.
Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents
The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates:
1649-1919, undated
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates:
1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.
Engraved plan, circa 1840, of Holyrood Park with manuscript additions, 1843, of William Nixon.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7795
Dates:
circa 1840-1843.
Estate and other plans and maps, with some drawings, concerning various places in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Acc.10086
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.