Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".
Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:
Bound volumes of correspondence and papers of General Thomas Wentworth relating to the War of the Austrian Succession., 1747.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25704-25705
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The main interest of the papers lies in the military and diplomatic material relating to General St Clair's career in the British army over thirty years.
The 2nd son of the 10th Lord Sinclair, James St Clair succeeded as titular 12th Lord Sinclair in 1750 on the death of his brother, who was attainted in 1715. In 1747 he married Janet, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes, and widow of Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet of Newbyth. He served with the Foot Guards in Gibraltar in...
Dates:
1747.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning General the Honourable James St Clair of Sinclair and Balblair (1688-1762).
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Military papers of and concerning General James St Clair.
Bundle of papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire, including correspondence of and relating to the Earls and 1st Duke of Roxburghe, a letter and poems of Dr Archibald Pitcairne, and a document relating to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton., 1668-1796, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3582, folios 52-100
Dates:
1668-1796, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers in the process of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord New Abbey; papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire; and papers of James Balfour of Pilrig, director of the Darien Company.
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Papers in the process of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord New Abbey; papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire; and papers of James Balfour of Pilrig, director of the Darien Company.
‘Caledonia, seu dissertationes de primis Caledoniae incolis.’
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.13
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.V.514.
‘In quibus, Origo, Antiquitas, Mores, Instituta, Linqua, Religio Veterum Caled oniorum una cum situ ac Natura Regionis, monstrantur. Volumen Primum. Eveteribus scriptis collegit, et in ordinem Ne pereat, digessit Patricius Ninianus Gemius de Gemijs & societate Jesu.’
Dates:
1726.
'Canon sive regula vitæ’ by George Sibbald of Rankeillour, in the hand of, and with notes by, Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.3
Dates:
17th century.
Canvass books and related papers., [Circa 1794-circa 1812], 1832-1837.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16150-16178
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The general elections of 1812, 1831 and 1832, and the by-election of 1834, are particularly well documented in this series.
Dates:
[Circa 1794-circa 1812], 1832-1837.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence, papers, legal and financial documents, canvass records and printed ephemera concerning elections and politics in the County of Perth parliamentary constituency involving Thomas Graham (M.P. from 1794 to 1807) and Robert Graham (Whig/Liberal campaign manager, 1831-1832, and parliamentary candidate, 1834).
Canvass papers, pledge letters and voting statistics for the by-election campaign of Robert Graham., 1834.
File
Identifier: MS.16176
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The general elections of 1812, 1831 and 1832, and the by-election of 1834, are particularly well documented in this series.
Dates:
1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence, papers, legal and financial documents, canvass records and printed ephemera concerning elections and politics in the County of Perth parliamentary constituency involving Thomas Graham (M.P. from 1794 to 1807) and Robert Graham (Whig/Liberal campaign manager, 1831-1832, and parliamentary candidate, 1834).
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Canvass books and related papers.
‘Case for Arthur Forbes, 9th of Culloden … claiming the title and Baronetcy of Foveran, …’., 1843.
Item
Identifier: MS.21255
Scope and Contents
A legal paper written apparently in 1843 (folio 98 verso).
Dates:
1843.
Certificates, letters of appointment and other official documents of Charles Murray., 1873-1941.
File
Identifier: MS.27271
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Dates:
1873-1941.
Church affairs of Ferintosh, particularly the patronage of Urquhart and Logie Wester over which John Forbes had a dispute with the Bishop of Ross., 1603-1689.
File
Identifier: Ch.1883-1907
‘Churches estate in a natione, vol. I’., Early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.16 (I)
Dates:
Early 17th century.
‘Churches estate in a natione, vol. II’., Early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.16 (II)
Dates:
Early 17th century.
‘Churches estate in a natione, vol. III’, Early 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.16 (III)
Dates:
Early 17th century.
‘Collectanea relative to the surname and family of Napper in England’, by the Honourable and Reverend Henry Alfred Napier, Rector of Swyncombe., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.759
Collection of autographs formed by William Finlay Watson (died 1881), bookseller, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.577-600
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters and documents in the autograph of literary, political, social, artistic, naval, military, and legal celebrities, chiefly covering the period from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth.
The first 2,300 items bear numbers given in the National Galleries. Certain letters, etc., have been retained for exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery; the series is therefore not continuous (see MS.595).
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Collection of epigrams, songs, copies of letters and documents, etc., relating to current events in France., 1712-1730.
File
Identifier: MS.160
Dates:
1712-1730.
Collection of papers concerning the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
File
Identifier: MS.1081
Scope and Contents
The papers fall into three divisions. The first (folios 1-8) contains copies of letters and documents, August-September 1745, concerning Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s movements, chiefly letters of the 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and the 2nd Duke of Atholl, which retail current rumours. The second division (folios 9-47) contains letters and documents, some original, some copies, September 1745-January 1746, concerning the course of the rebellion. Many of the letters are addressed to Robert...
Dates:
1745-1746, 1755.
Collection of papers relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.18
Dates:
16th century-early 20th century.
Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands., 1639-1642.
File
Identifier: MS.2687(ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The proceedings consists mainly of speeches, petitions, newsletters, and diurnal occurrences, along with other documents, some of an earlier date, bearing on the constitutional crisis.
Dates:
1639-1642.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands.
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Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, written in various contemporary hands.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
'Collection of the moste principall speeches, argumts. and other passages, and proceedings in the parliamt. begun the xviith of March, 1627 [1628 according to the modern reckoning], in the third year of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles. And continued untill the xvith daie of June then next following. 1628.', 1628.
File
Identifier: MS.2704
Scope and Contents
The collection of papers concerning the parliament of England are in a contemporary hand. Imperfect, lacking several leaves.
Dates:
1628.
‘Collection of the principal officers of state & others in the Kingdom of Scotland, the erection of Abbacies & other such, & the genealogy of the nobility’, in the handwriting of Walter Goodall.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.17
Dates:
18th century.
Complaint made to Henry VI by the Duke of Gloucester, and ‘A fulle lamentable cronicle of the dethe and fals murder of James Steward [James I]’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.22
Dates:
16th century.
Confidential papers chiefly printed for the use of members of the Cabinet., 1838-1852.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12152-12224
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:
1838-1852.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents, 1615-1651, in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Baronet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael; and of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain., 1600-1651.
File
Identifier: MS.20799
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies, 17th century, of diplomas, gifts, and other documents in favour of Sir James Carmichael, 1st Bartonet, of Westraw, and 1st Lord Carmichael, 1615-1651. (Folio 1.) This volume is related but not apparently identical to the 'Hyndford Inventory' cited in ‘The Scots peerage’, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, volume 4 (Edinburgh, 1907) pages 584-585.
(ii) Copies, early 17th century, of papers, 1600-1618, concerning the vicarage and stipend of Pettinain....
Dates:
1600-1651.
Copies, 17th century, of letters, 1636-1640, of Samuel Rutherfurd chiefly written during the period of his banishment to Aberdeen in 1637.
File
Identifier: MS.15950
Scope and Contents
The letters are followed (folio 56) by copies of sermons and similar material of Hugh Mackail, David Dickson and others.
The inverted folios contain political and other poems, including 'The black bastel' by James Melvill.
Dates:
1636-1640.