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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 327 Collections and/or Records:

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 associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War., 1808-1814.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.22-46.3.5
Scope and Contents

The associated papers consist of intelligence reports (many of which are illustrated by sketch-maps) by British officers, letters and memoranda forwarded from Spanish and Portuguese leaders, and a few intercepted letters of French Generals.

Dates: 1808-1814.

Correspondence and papers, 1940, of Jim Harley, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11939
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers largely of and to the Children`s Overseas Reception Board (Scottish Branch) concerning the proposed evacuation of Rosemary Harley to Canada. Also includes Rosemary Harley`s school reports, 1932-1938, from Cranley School, Edinburgh, a Cranley School photograph, 1937, and her notes on the papers, 2001.

Dates: 1932-1940, 2001.

Correspondence and papers concerning figures of Scottish historical interest.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10742
Scope and Contents

Includes:

charter, 1316, of Robert the Bruce

royal letters, 1537-1645

contemporary description, 1587, of the death of Mary, Queen of Scots

letters, 1716-1821 and undated, of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his family

letters, 1764 and 1793, of James Boswell

letters, 1810 and 1828, of Sir Walter Scott

letter, 1843, of Thomas Carlyle

Dates: 1316-1938.

Correspondence and papers concerning the Livingstonia Mission.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9269
Scope and Contents

Includes:

Instructions, 1877, by the Reverend Dr James Stewart

Letters, 1913-1924, from missionaries

paper, 1919, by the Reverend Dr George Brewster on German East Africa.

Dates: 1877-1924 and undated.

Correspondence and papers of A H E L Holt.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8756
Scope and Contents

Concerning chiefly Holt`s work as a railway engineer in Iraq, 1916-1932 and undated, and as a soil consultant in Sudan, 1952-1958.

Also includes:

papers and notebooks, 1884-1929 and undated, of his father-in-law, the Reverend E M Macphail

papers, 1880-1907 and undated, concerning the claim by Stewart Soutar Johnstone to the Marquesate of Annandale.

Dates: 1880-1958 and undated.

Correspondence and papers of H E Sumner.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9469
Scope and Contents

Concerning the history of Rhodesia, with some papers, circa 1944, on Eritrea.

Dates: circa 1944, 1973-1976.

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 and papers relating to General Sir George Murray`s appointment to the staff of the army in America and to his subsequent appointment to the command of the troops and civil government of Upper Canada., 1811-1815, and undated.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.6.5-46.6.6
Scope and Contents

The papers, many of which are undated, consist of notes, memoranda and reports on various aspects of life and of military affairs (including some sketch-maps) in Canada.

Dates: 1811-1815, and undated.

COSLA Report on Standards for School Library Services in Scotland., 1999.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13657/71
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), including papers relating to its foundation in 1991.

Dates: 1999.