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Printed materials. Object genre.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Genre of written works published or otherwise available in printed form, usually on paper.

Found in 1186 Collections and/or Records:

'Letter from the Governor-General of India to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company Dated 2nd May 1839'., 1839.

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Identifier: MS.12165
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1839.

'Letter from the Governor-General of India to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company Dated 9 May 1839'., 1839.

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Identifier: MS.12166
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1839.

'Letter from the Governor General ... to the Secret Committee'. Sinde, Simla., 19 September 1839.

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Identifier: MS.12173
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 19 September 1839.

'Letter from the President in Council to the Secret Committee; Ava'., 6 November 1839.

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Identifier: MS.12181
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 6 November 1839.

'Letter from the President in Council to the Secret Committee; Ava'., 16 December 1839.

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Identifier: MS.12182
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 16 December 1839.

'Letter ... to the Secret Committee', etc.', Simla., 29 August 1839.

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Identifier: MS.12170
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 29 August 1839.

Letters and, chiefly printed, papers of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington., 1787, 1809-1812, 1815, 1831, 1834-1835, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15336
Scope and Contents From the Series: James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates: 1787, 1809-1812, 1815, 1831, 1834-1835, undated.

Letters and documents relating chiefly to appointments to the first charge of the Canongate Parish Church, Edinburgh, and to the National Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh., 1808-1824, 1828-1848.

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Identifier: MS.352
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Letters and documents, 1808-1824, relating chiefly to appointments to the first charge of the Canongate Parish Church, Edinburgh. The correspondents include: Reverend Dr Andrew Grant, Moderator of the General Assembly, on the proposed Teind Bill, 1808, and on the Canongate, 1810; Sir John Sinclair, Baronet 1808; The Earl of Wemyss, 1808; Magistrates, Elders, and Incorporated Trades of the Canongate, 1808, 1810-1811, 1824; Reverend Dr Thomas...
Dates: 1808-1824, 1828-1848.

Letters and 'miscellaneous documents' of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, chiefly concerning the National Library of Scotland., 1922-1936.

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Identifier: MS.25270
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1); (ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows. (ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68); (iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the...
Dates: 1922-1936.

Letters and papers concerning affairs in the United States of America., 1770-1886, undated.

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Identifier: MSS.15130-15136
Scope and Contents The Ellices owned a considerable amount of land in New York State, centring around the town of Little Falls. The correspondence consists chiefly of letters of agents who administered the property, and of letters from friends of Ellice who inspected their administration. There was considerable dissatisfaction on both sides. The Ellices felt that their agents were not drawing enough profit from the estates, and the local American authorities thought that not enough money was being put into...
Dates: 1770-1886, undated.

Letters and papers concerning honours bestowed on Thomas Carlyle.

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Identifier: MS.1795
Scope and Contents The contents concern the following:Membership of the Gesellschaft für in- und ausländische schöne Literatur in Berlin, 1830, 1835 (folio 1); of the Orden der Wachsamkeit, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1859 (folio 7); of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1866 (folio 16); and of the Prussian order, Pour le Mérite, 1874 (folio 18); with a letter forwarding an article published in the ‘Deutscher Reichs- und Königlich-Preussischer Staats-Anzeiger’ in honour of Thomas Carlyle's birthday, 1875...
Dates: 1830-1875.

Letters and papers concerning the Glasgow Free Church Building Society., 1862-1870, undated.

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Identifier: MS.19196
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.

Dates: 1862-1870, undated.

Letters and papers concerning the reduction of the Danish islands and Cayenne, accounts of naval actions against the French, decisions of the prize-courts, and other papers, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands., 1805-1808.

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Identifier: MS.2314
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates: 1805-1808.