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Epitaphs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Inscriptions on sepulchral monuments in the memory of those buried in the tomb or grave. (AAT) Collections of copies of epitaphs in general. Collections from a particular place are indexed also under the place. Epitaphs of a particular person go under the name of the person. (NLS).

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Album titled 'A Select Collection of Epitaphs & Inscriptions ... 1. Moral. 2. Humorous. 3. Instructive. By T. Bailey . . . 180-.', [Circa 1805.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.2141
Scope and Contents

The album consists of manuscript and printed epitaphs, cut out and pasted into an old account-book ending 1792. It was evidently intended for the press.

Dates: [Circa 1805.]

Albums of epitaphs., ?Early 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2141-2142
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: ?Early 19th century.

Biographical and memorial material relating to Alasdair Geddes., 1919-1969, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19267
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Biographical notes of Alasdair Geddes written by his brother Arthur, undated (folio 1);(ii) Typescript of epitaph to Alasdair Geddes carved on his tombstone by his brother, Arthur, in 1919 (folio 6);(iii) Typescript of ‘To One is not and Yet is’, by Rachel Annand Taylor, undated (folio 10);(iv) Correspondence, 1969, of Jeannie Geddes with the Scottish National Institute for the War Blinded concerning the medals...
Dates: 1919-1969, undated.

'Collection of Epitaphs taken out of [list of English counties follows], with several drolleries taken from signs, &c.', undated, written into a blank album., ?Early 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2142
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: ?Early 19th century.

Commonplace book chiefly containing historical material., 17th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2095
Scope and Contents The contents include copies of speeches, letters, and various documents, abstracts, tables, and notes relating to history (chiefly Scottish, of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; also Highland and some English), foundations of religious houses at Restalrig and St Andrews, rents of Church benefices, coinage, Crown rents, Dutchmen fishing with busses in British waters, the Royal Navy, merchant adventures, etc., with notes from Scripture, epitaphs, etc. In various different...
Dates: 17th century.

Copies of printed and other material concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1745.

 File
Identifier: MS.297
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter, manifesto, etc., of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1745; the ‘dying declarations’, last speeches, etc., of Lord Balmerino, Mr John Hamilton, and other Jacobites; political verses, toasts, epitaphs, etc.

Dates: 1745.

Correspondence of the 2nd Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston with the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto, and letters concerning the death of the 2nd Viscount Palmerston., 1797-1804, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.11129
Scope and Contents

(i) The correspondence of the 2nd Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston with the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto, begins on folio 1, and includes letters, chiefly of physicians, concerning the illness of Lady Palmerston in 1804. (ii) The letters concerning the death of the 2nd Viscount Palmerston, 1804, begins on folio 74, and includes copies of epitaphs, notes, and drafts of obituaries in the hand of the 1st Earl of Minto.

Dates: 1797-1804, undated.

Diary for 1778, containing epigrams, anecdotes, epitaphs, etc., 1778.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5789
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1778.

Financial, legal and miscellaneous papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale., 1654-1697, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14487
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Inventories, 1659-1694, undated, of household and legal papers (folio 1);(ii) Legal papers, 1662, concerning the claims of the 4th Viscount Stormont against the creditors of James Murray, 2nd Earl of Annandale (folio 28);(iii) Order, 19 June 1667, for a seat in Lady Yester Kirk for the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 48);(iv) Note of pictures bought in 1691 (folio 49);(v) Inventories, 1691-1697, of...
Dates: 1654-1697, undated.

Genealogical papers concerning the Earls Marischal and the Keiths of Ravelston., [Circa 1748]-1802, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.21188
Scope and Contents The papers include copies of ‘History of Keith Marischal of Scotland’ by Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunnottar (folio 7); ‘History of the family of Keith Marischal’ by Bishop Robert Keith (folio 45), and an essay and letters of Alexander Keith of Ravelston and Dunnottar concerning Bishop Keith's ‘History’ (folios 2, 52-60).Appended to the inside of the front and back covers of the volume are an English Translation, 1802, of the German inscription on Marshal Keith's Tomb in...
Dates: [Circa 1748]-1802, undated.

Genealogical papers of, and concerning, the Keith family., 1623-1927, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21187-21188
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates: 1623-1927, undated.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Walter Hamilton., 1814-1830.

 File
Identifier: MS.40516
Scope and Contents Letters, 1814-1828, of Walter Hamilton to John Murray II with related letters and papers. They concern work on his publications “East India gazetteer” and “Geographical, statistical, and historical descriptions of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries”. They also refer to his own reading, and his opinions on manuscripts sent to him by Murray. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1814-1819: folios 1-29; (1)1820-1821: folios 30-54;1822-1823:...
Dates: 1814-1830.