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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Transcribed collections of numbers, names, or other text indicating tallies of concepts collocated for any particular purpose.
Found in 1665 Collections and/or Records:
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.13(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Each volume contains Macpherson`s signature on the verso of the title page and numerous marginalia, many of which are quite lengthy, throughout, as well as additional notes and extracts on scraps, and some sheets, of paper tipped in at appropriate places. According to a note on the verso of the title page of volume i, Macpherson `inserted everything that occurred to me in printed authors or in manuscript records, which is useful correcting the errors, or supplying the defects of Sir David...
Dates:
1776, 1779.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume 2 (Edinburgh, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple., 1779.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.13(ii)
Scope and Contents
Additions are tipped-in at pages 3, 17, 127, 169, 247, 276, 303 and 319.
Dates:
1779.
Dialect words from Argyll, Arran, Laggan, West Ross, East Ross, Sutherland, Caithness, Lewis, Uist, Skye, Mull., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.424
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
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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.
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Papers concerning dialects and phonetics compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Dates:
1896-1977.
Diary and notebook of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer., 1746.
Item
Identifier: MS.17891
Scope and Contents
On folios 10 verso-11 is a list of trees, on folios 12 verso-14 verso keys to cyphers.
Dates:
1746.
Diary of a journey from London to Venice and back by Francis Jeffrey travelling with Henry Cockburn and others., July-September 1823.
Item
Identifier: MS.23224
Scope and Contents
The outward journey was made via Belgium, Holland, Germany and Switzerland, the return was through Switzerland and France. There is a list of places visited at folio 170; folios 164-169 are blank.
Dates:
July-September 1823.
Diary of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, recording political events and extensive lists of seeds sent to Saltoun and elsewhere., 5 November 1748-24 July 1751.
Item
Identifier: MS.17747
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:
5 November 1748-24 July 1751.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Dairies of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Diaries and notebooks of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, auditor of exchequer.
Diary of Robert Cadell kept during visits to London, describing his journeys, and business and social meetings., 1831-1846.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21041-21042
Scope and Contents
The entries in these volumes fill the gaps in the main series of diaries (MSS.21014-21039). As well as journal entries they include memoranda, lists of names and accounts concerning Robert Cadell's trips to London.
Dates:
1831-1846.
Diary of the South African campaign of 1900-1901 kept by Second Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Herbert George Sotheby of the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Item
Identifier: MS.8498
Scope and Contents
The diary, though silent on the larger issues, is interesting for its first-hand accounts of the raids in which the battalion took part. A list of the battalion's officers and a drawing of Colonel Plumer (later Viscount Plumer) are also included.
Dates:
1900-1901.
`Die Statistic der Familien von Ferein Aghidas Achim`, listing details (name, age, place of birth, profession, number, age and sex of children, and address) of 30 families, with official signatures and stamps., 1898.
Item
Identifier: Ch.16847
Documents concerning the activities of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart as British Vice-Consul in Moscow, with a championship medal of the Moscow Football League.
File
Identifier: Acc.11970/1-2
Dates:
[1912], 1915-1917, undated.
Documents relating to the Episcopal Church of Scotland and copies of papers relating to the rising of 1745., 1739-1746, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1916
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'A short narrative of the occasion, rise, progress, & administration of the . . . Fund . . . for Relief of the Indigent Episcopal Clergy in Scotland and their Widows', with a copy of Bishop David Freebairn's commission to the collectors, dated 1739 (folio 1);(ii) List of the Episcopal clergy possessed of cures in Scotland at the Revolution (folio 7);(iii) Narratives of the Jacobite rising of 1745 (copies), preceded by...
Dates:
1739-1746, undated.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, watermarked 1796, was compiled by and for Dr Donald Smith when in Ireland circa 1798. Scribes:
(a) anonymous, Roman hand;
(b) Toirdhealbhach Maguidhir (Terence McGuire), Gaelic hand;
(c) Dr Donald Smith, Roman hand. Terence Mcguire’s work at part II pages 17-90, written in 1798 (cf. pages 17, 45, 69) reproduces material written by him in 1788 at Royal Irish Academy 1185 (24 C 55), pages 159-175, and in 1789 at Royal Irish Academy 1074 (24 P 29),...
Dates:
[Circa 1798.]
Draft petitions and other papers (thirteen items in total) connected with the rising of 1745., [Circa 1748.]
File
Identifier: MS.1004, folios 6-26
Dates:
[Circa 1748.]
Drafts and annotated typescripts of articles, lectures, and films scripts relating to a visit to Morocco with Douglas Scott in 1955., 1955, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13059/220A
Scope and Contents
Includes articles entitled 'Berbers of the High Atlas', 'The Astonishing Atlas', 'The Peaceful side of Morocco', 'Birds of the Himalayas' with lists of birds seen, and 'Mountains of Morocco', with a related letter, press-cuttings and printed articles.
Dates:
1955, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
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Literary and broadcasting papers of Tom Weir.
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Papers relating to short stories, articles, press, radio and TV scripts of Tom Weir
Drafts and copies of poems of William Mickle, not all in Mickle's hand., [?1751-?1788.]
File
Identifier: MS.15934
Scope and Contents
A list of those poems which were published, including “There's nae luck about the house”, has been inserted.
For the background to 'Prospects of liberty and of slavery' (Folio 86), see “Mickle, Boswell, liberty, and the ‘Prospects of liberty and of slavery’” by Monica Letzring in ‘Modern language review’, volume 69, pages 489-500.
Dates:
[?1751-?1788.]
Drafts and corrected proofs of ‘Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield’ by Andrew Stuart, in which he justified his actions in the Douglas Cause., [1773, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5365-5367
Scope and Contents
A note at the beginning of MS.5365 gives details of the drafts, and a statement of the probable relationships between them and the final printed version.
Dates:
[1773, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
Drafts and corrected proofs of ‘Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield’ by Andrew Stuart, in which he justified his actions in the Douglas Cause., [1773, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.5367
Scope and Contents
The volume contains (folio 111) a list in Andrew Stuart's hand of persons to whom copies of the printed work were sent.
Dates:
[1773, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the Douglas Cause.
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Drafts and corrected proofs of ‘Letters to the Right Honorable Lord Mansfield’ by Andrew Stuart, in which he justified his actions in the Douglas Cause.
Drafts and notes of the 1st Earl of Minto., 1776-[1806], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11206
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Memorandum in defence of the 1st Earl of Minto's administration of Corsica, 1797, (folio 1);
(ii) Draft of a speech on the suspension of Habeas Corpus, January 1797 (folio 2);
(iii) Draft of a speech in the House of Lords, 21 November 1798, on Nelson's victory in the Battle of the Nile (folio 25);
(iv) Drafts of and notes for speeches in the House of Lords, June 1802-circa April 1803, against the provisions of the Peace of Amiens and the Government's handling...
Dates:
1776-[1806], undated.
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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Political correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
Drafts and translations of poems and plays by Edwin Morgan., 1959-1984.
File
Identifier: MS.27493
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Drafts of translations into Scots of 21 poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1959-1960 (folio 1). All the poems were published in Edwin Morgan's collection ‘Wi the haill voice: 25 poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky’ (Oxford, 1972). They are preceded by a typescript list by Morgan, 1968, giving details of previous publication.
(ii) Drafts of original poems, 1963-1968 (folio 36). All were published in Morgan's ‘Collected poems' (Manchester, 1990). They are preceded by a...
Dates:
1959-1984.
Drafts of Alexander Wood Inglis for a history of military music in the armies of England, Scotland, and Great Britain, with related and unrelated material., 1901-1919, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3353 [Ing.306]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Drafts, mainly typewritten, by Alexander Wood Inglis for a history of military music in the armies of England, Scotland, and Great Britain: the use of music in general, instruments, regimental bands, airs, are discussed. Many of the airs mentioned are in MS.3352. (Folio 1.)(ii) Miscellaneous material, 1915, 1918-1919, relating to military music, including correspondence. (Folio 185.)(iii) Lists of airs (not necessarily...
Dates:
1901-1919, undated.
Drafts of the end of chapter 8 and of part of chapter 10, of 'Living with ballads' by Willa Muir, with a list of chapter headings and miscellaneous notes., 1962, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19688
'Ecclesia Scoticana': lists, chiefly in Latin, of the Kings, Bishops, and Abbots of Scotland., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2665
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete.
On page 175 is an unfinished note by George Neilson of data that might identify the compiler.
Dates:
18th century.
Edinburgh directory and price list., 1946.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4341/18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Including minute books, general fund ledger and six district directories.
Dates:
1946.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
File
Identifier: Acc.12362
Dates:
1987.