Plans. Reports.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Organized and often detailed proposals that lay out strategies and schemes of action for something to be done.
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with Melven's Bookshop and Melven Press., 1968-1970, 1973-1990, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/103-109
Dates:
1968-1970, 1973-1990, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others.
Copy of a letter of Lord Hobart to General Richard Vyse concerning an enclosed plan for the formation of volunteer corps in Scotland., 20 June 1803.
File
Identifier: MS.14835, folios 113-118
Dates:
20 June 1803.
Correspondence, accounts and plans with Edinburgh Bookshop., 1980-1988.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/102
Dates:
1980-1988.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others.
Correspondence and plans with Melven’s Bookshops., 1973-1975.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/104
Dates:
1973-1975.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with Melven's Bookshop and Melven Press.
Correspondence and reports on a new approach to Sites of Special Scientific Interest designations in Scotland., 1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/1124
Scope and Contents
For SNH.
Dates:
1998.
Correspondence, plans and insurance documentation of Bennett [and] Robertson, and Whinney Murray [and] Co., solicitors., 1973-2000.
File
Identifier: Acc.12384/8
Dates:
1973-2000.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Legal and property papers of James Thin, bookseller.
Drawing, undated - Copy of Parliamentary plan - Edinburgh, Regent Road., ?19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5849 (65)
Dates:
?19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson, the Edinburgh civil engineers.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson concerning places in Scotland.
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Plans chiefly made by Messrs Stevenson relating to places in Scotland beginning with Edinburgh, London Road-Ey.
Financial papers of the Scottish Craft Centre., 1985-1990.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10729/41-46
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Includes papers concerning the closure of the Scottish Craft Centre, the move from Acheson House in 1990, and the proposed Scottish Craft Council, 1991.
Dates:
1985-1990.
Letters chiefly of the Earl of Caledon, Governor of the Cape, and Lieutenant-General the Honourable Henry George Grey to the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning plans for the invasion and occupation of Mauritius and Bourbon (Réunion)., 1807-1811.
File
Identifier: MS.11676
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1807-1811.
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, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with various Governors and others.
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Correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto with the Governor of Ceylon, the Governor of the Cape, and others.
Notebook of James St Clair, containing copies of various reports., [1745, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25685
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains a copy of the 'Ordres de Marches issued to the British Army in Flanders in 1745’ (folio i). Also copies of two reports written by St Clair: 'Report to His Majesty concerning the Ground for Encamping the Troops between Highgate and Whetstone and a report of the different ways leading to London' (page 95); 'Report to His Majesty in relation to the County of Kent' (page 100). With four plans for encampments pasted in (inverted folios 1-3).
Dates:
[1745, or after.]
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.
Papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller, branches., 1963-1985.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/117-119
Papers of correspondence, minutes, plans and accounts relating to Melven’s Bookshop Ltd and branches., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12384/108-109
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers.
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Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with publishers, bookshops and others.
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Associated business of James Thin, bookseller, with Melven's Bookshop and Melven Press.
'Plan for raising Sixteen Thousand Men for internal Defence by embodying the highland Clans to be employed in Great Britain or Ireland in case of actual Invasion or civil commotion, or the imminent danger of both or either'., 1797.
Item
Identifier: MS.14835, folio 95-98
Dates:
1797.
Reports, plans and related papers of the estate of Foxhall., 1835-1943, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.6275/115-123
Dates:
1835-1943, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers, including correspondence, financial documents, plans, reports and related material, concerning the estates of Foxhall and Avoncrook.
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Papers concerning the estates of Foxhall, containing titles, financial papers, and other related material.
Route descriptions for the ascent of the north face of the Eiger., 1966.
File
Identifier: Acc.14376/1
Scope and Contents
There are here two descriptions of the route taken by the British-American team.
The first is a typed route description, annotated by Dougal Haston.
The second is a manuscript route description of the First Band section written by Layton Kor.
Dates:
1966.
'Scottish Plan of Action', compiled and edited by Cassandra McGrogan (Scottish Joint Action Group)., 1985.
File
Identifier: Acc.13806/2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection reflects Dr Esther Breitenbach's feminist activism from the 1970s onwards. This includes papers reflecting her contributions to the Women’s Legal and Financial Independence Campaign, the Radical Scotland Women’s Group, and the European Forum of Socialist Feminists, as well as papers relating to the activities of the Women's Co-ordination Group, which advanced the demand for 50:50 gender representation. The collection includes assorted annotated pamphlets, conference papers,...
Dates:
1985.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Dr Esther Breitenbach.
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Papers collected by Esther Breitenbach relating to women and gender in Scotland, and to her work as a feminist activist.
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Papers relating to feminism and gender equality in Scotland collected by Esther Breitenbach.
Sermons of Alexander Carlyle., 1746-1803, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23786-23909
Scope and Contents
They consist of sermons preached before and after the Sacrament (MSS.23786-23805), series of sermons on the Sermon on the Mount (MSS.23806-23816), on the Lord's Prayer (MSS.23817-23825) and on righteousness (MSS.23826-23834), sermons on death (MSS.23835-23840), sermons preached on public occasions (MSS.23841—23863), some of which were, printed subsequently, and sermons preached on various topics (MSS.23864-23906), followed by drafts, fragments and summaries of sermons and schemes of services...
Dates:
1746-1803, undated.
SNH draft corporate plan to provide guidance on natural heritage policy., 1994.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/1063
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These papers relate to Magnusson's time working for Scottish Natural Heritage. The organisation was formed in 1992 following the amalgamation of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Commission for Scotland. Magnusson served as the Chairman of the organisation from 1992 until 1999. The papers contain minutes from SNH meetings, papers from working groups, such as those relating to the designation of the Cairngorms as a European Heritage Area and a series of papers...
Dates:
1994.
Special correspondence and related papers, mostly concerning organisations and public bodies, of Sir George Taylor., 1932-1989.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9533/75-203
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates:
1932-1989.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents
A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham.
(ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582.
(iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland.
(iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’.
(v) The heads whereof George...
Dates:
17th century.
Synopses of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’., 1932-1934, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26060
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two synopses of a history of America before Columbus, 1932 (folio l);
(ii) Plan of a work on the conquest of the Maya, undated (folio 21);
(iii) Synopsis of a history of mankind, 1934, with a letter from C S Evans, the publisher (folio 25);
(iv) Synopsis of 'Memoirs of a materialist', an autobiographical work, 1934 (folio 36);
(v) Synopsis of 'The Story of religion', undated (folio 43);
(vi) Notes from a sequel to ‘Stained Radiance’, undated (folio 54);
(vii)...
Dates:
1932-1934, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.
Various papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1683-1770.
File
Identifier: MS.1493
Scope and Contents
Contains the following papers: Advocates, affairs of the Faculty and their Library, 1683-1770; Abroath and affairs of local merchants, 1702-1707; Bank of England, note of staff and salaries, 1756; Caputh Church, 1721-1770 (see also MSS.1237, 1294); Carron Company, 1768 (see also MSS.1241-1244); Plan and description of a coalseam, undated.
Dates:
1683-1770.