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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:
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library chiefly concerning donations.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/26
Scope and Contents
The papers include the following.(i) Letter dated, 5th November 1851, concerning the Hutton manuscript.(ii) Letter dated, 1855, of Alexander Duff concerning the Decisions of Bengal Courts.(iii) Letter dated, 22nd January 1856, concerning the presentation of Prince Albert's 'The Natural History of Deeside'.(iv) Letter dated, 16th December 1846, of Thomas M'Crie concerning the presentaion of Baillie's sermons, 1637-1639, and a Wodrow...
Dates:
1851-1891.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning borrowers and a list of defaulters.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e/50
Dates:
1825-1906.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Gaelic manuscripts.
File
Identifier: F.R.339e(ii)
Dates:
1863-1925.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library relating to Wodrow manuscripts and pamphlets
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/4
Dates:
1759-1828, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.7194
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) A list, circa 1642, of the cannon belonging to the Marquess of Argyll (folio 2);(ii) Business correspondence and papers, circa 1653-1669, of Sir James Lamont and Archibald Lamont of Stilaig, his brother, including some draft petitions of Sir James to the English commissioners in Scotland, claiming restitution for injuries inflicted on himself and his family by the Marquess of Argyll (folio 4);(iii) Business correspondence...
Dates:
1640-1893.
Correspondence and papers relating to General Sir George Murray`s tenure of office of chief of staff of the allied armies of occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna., 1815-1818.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.6.7-46.8.5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.
Dates:
1815-1818.
Correspondence and papers relating to town twinning., 1986-1991.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13272/7-9
Correspondence between John Cam Hobhouse and John Galt., 1830.
File
Identifier: MS.42285
Scope and Contents
This correspondence between John Cam Hobhouse and John Galt follows the publication of 'Life of Lord Byron', by John Galt, 1830.The correspondence has been placed in chronological order:Letter of John Galt to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 July 1830: folios 1-2;Letter of John Cam Hobhouse to John Galt, 2 Sep 1830: folios 3-4;Letter of John Cam Hobhouse to John Galt, 2 Sep 1830: folios 5-6;Letter of John Galt to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 Sep 1830:...
Dates:
1830.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse.
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Letters of, to and concerning John Cam Hobhouse.
Correspondence between John Murray, publishers, and various printing firms concerning the 1885 edition of "The Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite", by James Nasmyth and James Carpenter., 1883-1885.
File
Identifier: MS.42504
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is of the correspondence and papers, including some manuscripts, of many of the most prominent authors published by John Murray, publishers. The papers represent the relationship between author and publisher. There are particularly significant holdings relating to Isabella Bishop (Isabella Bird), George Crabbe, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, Richard Ford, John Franklin, William Gladstone, Sir Francis Head, Sir Austen Henry Layard, David Livingstone, Thomas...
Dates:
1883-1885.
Correspondence between the Earl of Kimberley and the Earl of Rosebery, chiefly on foreign affairs., 1894-1895.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10242-10243
Scope and Contents
At the beginning of each volume is a contemporary list of the letters with brief notes of their contents.
Dates:
1894-1895.
Correspondence chiefly of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, collected by the Very Reverend John Lee, together with some papers., 1637-1725.
File
Identifier: MS.3430
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The earlier material (MSS.3430-3431) consists almost entirely of correspondence of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and includes appointments of Commissioners to the Assembly from 1638 onwards; accounts of the intrusion of ministers into parishes, and similar disputes, 1702-1755; reports on the prevalence of Roman Catholicism, with lists of papists and renunciations of popery, 1703-1751; and correspondence on the supply of books especially to the Highlands, in association with...
Dates:
1637-1725.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Very Reverend John Lee, Principal of Edinburgh University, with the material collected by him.
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Correspondence of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee.
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Correspondence of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee, together with some papers.
Correspondence chiefly of Thomas Marr and Edward McGegan., 1898-1901.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10567-10568
Scope and Contents
The correspondence concerns past and future summer meetings, and there is a detailed programme for the Edinburgh Summer Meeting of 1899 with a list of excursions and entertainments. Preparations for the Paris Exhibition are mentioned, such as advertising arrangements, and the production of circulars.
Dates:
1898-1901.
Correspondence concerning Strathtay traditions; place-names; Alexander MacGregor’s Black Watch Song, translated by Alexander Gow, etc., 1925-1926, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.462
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:
1925-1926, undated.
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 folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Correspondence concerning the circulation of offprints, reprints and other publications by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1936-1953.
File
Identifier: MS.50104
Scope and Contents
The papers have been arranged alphabetically by theme: ‘art’, ‘communism’, ‘object relations’.Correspondence, 1937-1953, concerning papers and publications by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn on art, in particular: ‘Prolegomena to a Psychology of Art’; ‘Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’; and, “Critical Notice – ‘Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art’, by Ernst Kris”. The correspondence has been arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each...
Dates:
1936-1953.
Correspondence, journals, photographs and other papers of Isabella Plumb, mostly relating to her missionary work at Pune, India and Sialkot, Pakistan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12680/1-46
Dates:
1862-1956, undated.
Correspondence, lists and other papers., Circa 1896-1899.
Series
Identifier: Acc.5024 Box 6(1)-(4)
Correspondence, notes, staging lists, press cutting and programme of 'Cumnock chronicles', a collaboraton between St Convals High School and 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., 1993.
File
Identifier: Acc.12911/164
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.
Dates:
1993.
Correspondence of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee, including correspondence of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, together with some papers., 1726-1800.
File
Identifier: MS.3431
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The earlier material (MSS.3430-3431) consists almost entirely of correspondence of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and includes appointments of Commissioners to the Assembly from 1638 onwards; accounts of the intrusion of ministers into parishes, and similar disputes, 1702-1755; reports on the prevalence of Roman Catholicism, with lists of papists and renunciations of popery, 1703-1751; and correspondence on the supply of books especially to the Highlands, in association with...
Dates:
1726-1800.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Very Reverend John Lee, Principal of Edinburgh University, with the material collected by him.
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Correspondence of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee.
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Correspondence of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee, together with some papers.
Correspondence of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee, together with some papers., 1637-1873, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3430-3449
Scope and Contents
The earlier material (MSS.3430-3431) consists almost entirely of correspondence of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and includes appointments of Commissioners to the Assembly from 1638 onwards; accounts of the intrusion of ministers into parishes, and similar disputes, 1702-1755; reports on the prevalence of Roman Catholicism, with lists of papists and renunciations of popery, 1703-1751; and correspondence on the supply of books especially to the Highlands, in association with...
Dates:
1637-1873, undated.
Correspondence of Major-General John Campbell, including many letters of his son, Colonel John Campbell, relating to the rising of 1745-1746, and orders, intelligence reports, and intercepted Jacobite correspondence: volume IV., July 1746-August 1747, 1748, 1762, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3736
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
While there are many accounts of the operations of the main armies, the correspondence deals chiefly with Major-General Campbell's command in the west, i.e., the suppression of attempted risings and the pursuit of Jacobite’s after Culloden (in particular, correspondence and prisoners' declarations on the escape of Prince Charles Edward). The correspondents include the principal military and civil authorities concerned, officers of the Government troops, naval officers stationed on the west...
Dates:
July 1746-August 1747, 1748, 1762, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence of Major-General John Campbell, afterwards 4th Duke of Argyll, including many letters of his son, Colonel John Campbell, afterwards 5th Duke, relating to the rising of 1745-1746, and orders, intelligence reports, and intercepted Jacobite correspondence.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1889-1890
Scope and Contents
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Dates:
1833-1910, undated.
Correspondence of the Earl of Rosebery concerning applications for honours., 1871-1896, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10156-10167
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates:
1871-1896, undated.
Correspondence of the Reverend James Morton., 1811-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3381
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, 1811-1875 (folio 1), chiefly about John Leyden, the publication of his life and works and the sale of his books and manuscripts, but including several dealing with the Reverend James Morton's own affairs and an account of Van Diemen's Land, extracted from a letter (folio 175);(ii) Newspaper-cuttings relating to John Leyden, 1811-1861 (folio 193);(iii) Youthful letter of Morton and list of woven goods, undated (folio...
Dates:
1811-1875, undated.
Correspondence, reports, plans and other papers of John Rennie concerning Bridlington Harbour., 1806, 1810-1816.
File
Identifier: MS.19790 (part 1)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The contents are as follows.
(i) Bridlington, correspondence, 1810-1816, and reports, plans and other papers, 1806, 1811-1813, 1815 (folio 1);
(ii) Bridport, correspondence, 1809 (folio 142);
(iii) Bristol, printed memoranda, 1800, 1802, and a transcript of the evidence given by William Jessop concerning the harbour works, with John Rennie's comments, 1803 (folio 160);
(iv) Buckie, reports and letter, 1780, 1808, 1810 (folio 210);
(v) Burntisland, letter, 1821 (folio 218);
(vl) Chatham,...
Dates:
1806, 1810-1816.
Curricula vitae of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., Circa 1940-circa 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.50170
Scope and Contents
The curricula vitae are arranged chronologically.Typescript, [circa 1940], ‘Application for grant in aid of research’ by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The application, for funding into research for devising personality tests for the selection of officers in the British Army, is effectively Fairbairn’s curriculum vitae. Folios 1-2.Typescript, [circa 1946], curriculum vitae of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 3-4.Typescript, [circa 1955], curriculum...
Dates:
Circa 1940-circa 1955.