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Essays.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Short literary compositions on single subjects, often presenting the personal view of the author.

Found in 567 Collections and/or Records:

Documents relating to an industrial management course undertaken by James Johnston., 1964

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Identifier: Acc.13818/34
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates: 1964
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Major-General James Johnston / Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston. / Papers relating to the military and technical training, and subsequent regimental service, of James Johnston. / Papers relating to James Johnston as a trainee officer at Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Officers School. / Officer training courses taken by James Johnston while attending REME Officers School.

‘Doggerel Allegory of Hemophthisis', by Thomas Davidson, sent by him in a letter to the Reverend James Brown., 1869.

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Identifier: MS.3112, folios 302-303
Dates: 1869.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Miscellaneous letters and manuscripts.

Draft of parts of the novel ‘The house with the green shutters’ by George Douglas Brown., [1901, or before.]

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Identifier: MS.8171
Scope and Contents The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) A section of the novel entitled 'Young Gourlay's first home-coming', which appears in a considerably shortened form as chapter XIX of the finished work. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Young Gourlay in Edinburgh', a description of Gourlay's reading habits which is not included in the printed version. (Folio 18.) (iii) 'A Possible for House with Green Shutters', being the description of the Reverend Struthers found in chapter...
Dates: [1901, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and drafts of and concerning George Douglas Brown.

Essay, 1794, entitled 'On the chorus', and miscellaneous fragments, undated, on ancient drama, apparently unpublished., 1794, undated.

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Identifier: MS.6382
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.

Dates: 1794, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family. / Literary manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, and of members of his family.

Essay, 'Administration the reason why', by David Ainslie Thin., 2 May 2002.

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Identifier: Acc.12384/68
Dates: 2 May 2002.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of James Thin, bookseller, containing business papers and correspondence, with some personal papers. / Business papers and correspondence of James Thin, bookseller. / Administration papers of James Thin, bookseller, containing correspondence, reports, essay and newspaper clippings.

Essay and notes on Mývatan., 1978.

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Identifier: Acc.13542/618
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 1978.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Magnus Magnusson. / Research notes and speeches. / Research on Iceland. / Collected pamphlets and newspaper cuttings on places in Iceland.

Essay and notes on naval warfare of the Vikings., 1979.

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Identifier: Acc.13542/708
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Files contain reseach notes relating to Magnusson's interests, the bulk of which are on Scotland and Iceland. Research notes on Vikings were kept separate by Magnusson.

Dates: 1979.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Magnus Magnusson. / Research notes and speeches. / Research notes on Vikings.

Essay and pamphlet on Stranraer., 4th quarter of 20th century.

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Identifier: Acc.13542/549
Scope and Contents

The essay is typed up, but unidentified, so it may not have been written by Magnusson.

Dates: 4th quarter of 20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Magnus Magnusson. / Research notes and speeches. / Research on Scotland. / Papers on Scottish Places.

Essay by Alexander Carlyle on the parish of Inveresk., 1752-1756, [1791, or before.]

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Identifier: MS.23919
Scope and Contents

The volume was first used to record the maintenance expenses of the Musselburgh Poors House 1752-1756 (folio 1), then reused by Alexander Carlyle for this essay (folio 18 verso). A few leaves loosely enclosed in the volume have been placed at the back (folio 43).

Dates: 1752-1756, [1791, or before.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Alexander 'Jupiter' Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, and of his trustees and later relations. / Other writings of Alexander Carlyle. / Writings on various subjects of Alexander Carlyle.

Essay by Henry Bell describing his work on steam navigation with the "Comet" and other contributions.

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Identifier: Acc.12402
Dates: circa 1824.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Essay by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson on personal names., [Before 1928.]

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Identifier: MS.407
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: [Before 1928.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay. / Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.

Essay by William Marwick on cautionry for Scots Law Class at Edinburgh., 1852.

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Identifier: Acc.4886/16
Dates: 1852.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of William Marwick, writer in Arbroath, and of the Reverend William Marwick.

Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Acc.6778
Dates: circa 1760-1782.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Essay concerning cobalt, addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, possibly by Nicholas Crisp., Mid 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.5135
Scope and Contents

The Society for the Encouragement of Arts had offered a prize for the best essay on the subject of colbalt, and this essay bears the written comments of two examiners. Inserted at the end of the volume are an examiner's comments on two other essays on the same subject (folio 53); including that of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, Berlin, to whom the prize was awarded.

Dates: Mid 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva. / Official papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.

Essay entitled `Superstitions of Perth` by the Reverend James Scott, incorporating extracts from the Kirk Session registers of Perth upon 16th century popular customs in Perth., 1788.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.1.5
Scope and Contents

Among the customs recorded are the Corpus Christi play (page 1), Saint Obert`s play (page 6) and processions to the Dragon`s Hole of Kinnoul (page 13).

Dates: 1788.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Transcripts and translations, 1776-?1781, of ecclesiastical records of Perth, 1241-1732, and an essay entitled `The Superstitions of Perth`, 1788, by the Reverend James Scott, minister of the East Church, Perth.

Essay entitled, 'The beneficial influence of the Christian Clergy during the first thousand years of the Christian Era’, apparently unpublished., [1849, or after.]

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Identifier: MS.6381
Scope and Contents

From the dates of publication of books cited in the footnotes, the essay could not have been written before 1849.

Dates: [1849, or after.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family. / Literary manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, and of members of his family.

Essay entitled 'The political and social condition of the Republics of the Medieval Italy, as compared with those of Greece', apparently unpublished., [1843, or after], undated.

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Identifier: MS.6380
Scope and Contents

There are two copies of the essay (folios 1, 40), the second being written on paper watermarked 1843.

Dates: [1843, or after], undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, and of his family. / Literary manuscripts of Henry Mackenzie, and of members of his family.

‘Essay for the Rhetoric Class upon the Origin of Superstition’, by John Lawson, United Presbyterian minister of the 1st charge in Selkirk, 1850-1896.

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Identifier: MS.19320
Scope and Contents

John Lawson attended Edinburgh University from 1841/1842 until at least 1845 and the Rhetoric class which he attended was probably that of Professor William Spalding thus dating his essay to ?1842-?1845. On the versos of folios 21-24 is a Knoweparke Library catalogue in an older hand of the same John Lawson.

Dates: ?1842-?1845.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.11
Scope and Contents According to a pencil note on page i, `This Book is in handwriting of Commissary John Goldie [of Craigmuie]`.The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Note on reason for parsons being addressed as `Sir’. (Page i.)(ii) `Ane Essay on Teinds.’ This is basically the same text as in Adv.MS.81.1.3. (Page 1.)(iii) `Extracts from [White] Kennets Parochiall antiquitys of Ambrosden andc [Oxford, 1695]`. (Page 88.)(iv) `Extracts from a...
Dates: 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Essay of James McDougall.

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Identifier: Acc.4294
Dates: circa 1917.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Essay of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes ‘Was the movement of Bonaparte beneficial to France’., 1828.

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Identifier: Acc.13827/94
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates: 1828.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo. / Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families. / Papers of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, 8th Bart. of Monymusk and Pitsligo. / Writings of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes.

Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.

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Identifier: MS.6658
Scope and Contents

The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).

Dates: 1738-1739.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Essay on healing by James Campbell., 1913.

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Identifier: MS.10262
Dates: 1913.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts and typescripts of talks and essays of James Archibald Campbell of Achanduin and Barbreck (1854-1926).

Essay on logic., 1679.

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Identifier: MS.17782
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1679.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun. / Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun. / Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun concerning religion and morals.

'Essay on the application of steam to the purposes of navigation'; a fair copy by James Rennie of his prize essay.

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Identifier: MS.9352
Scope and Contents

In an introductory note (folio ii verso), James Rennie states that he could not transcribe ‘several important particulars, which he has in the Scroll Copy'.

Dates: 1816.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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