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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 1238 Collections and/or Records:

Legal and related papers, including original documents, drafts and memoranda by Archibald Campbell, and notes of Lord Milton., 1682-1762, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17610-17612
Scope and Contents

The principal subjects are the settlement of the 2nd Duke's estate; lists of charters to be signed; wadsets; compensation for the abolition of heritable jurisdictions; entail and will of the 3rd Duke; the succession to Archibald Campbell of Inverliver; petitions; and the funeral and biography of the 3rd Duke.

Dates: 1682-1762, undated.

Legal, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.17933
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers concerning James Augustus Grant's service in India, 1853-1884, undated, supplementary to MS.17908, folios 50-108, including a list of property lost during the Mutiny and general statements of his service (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning Africa, undated, supplementary to MS.17922, including a list of the contents of John Hanning Speke's cases at Zanzibar and a copy of an agreement between Alexander Low Bruce and James Augustus Grant junior concerning...
Dates: 1827-1913, undated.

Legal notes on various matters of Civil and Scots law, including some by Lord Milton., 17th century-18th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.17813
Scope and Contents

The more substantial items are: suggestions for amending the law, 1752 (folio 12), proposals for publishing the Civil Law (folio 15), notes on actions (folio 57; cf. MS.17820), a summary of Stair's ‘Institutions’ (folio 69), a copy of 'De jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae ... 1606' (see Adv.MS.33.7.5) with various lists of peers down to 1707 and of representative peers down to 1739 (folio 86), and an alphabetical list of tailzies from 1685 to 1754 (folio 131).

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Legal papers, addresses and petitions, and miscellaneous papers of and concerning Hugh Elliot., 1811-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.13058
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Papers connected with the trial of Edward Huggins, senior, planter in Nevis, on the charge of cruelty to slaves, 1810 (folio 1), with the action of William Musgrave, Kings Counsel, Tortola, against George Martin of Tortola, for defamation of character, 1811 (folio 106), and with the trial of Arthur Hodge, planter, Tortola, for the murder of the slave Prosper, 1811 (folio 120). The trials of Huggins and Hodge are discussed in L J Ragatz, ‘The fall...
Dates: 1811-1813.

Legal papers concerning the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate., 1694-1785.

 File
Identifier: MS.1960
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: notarial copy, dated 1736, of a 'Decreit of Mutuall Declarator of Reductione In Favours of the Trades of the Canongate', 1694 (folio ii); copy of a decree, 1767, of the Sheriff Depute of Edinburgh in favour of the Incorporations of Tailors of Canongate and of Potterrow regarding wages and breakfast-hours (folio iv); copy of a decision, 1767, of the Bailies of the Canongate confirming the latter in favour of the Incorporation of Tailors of the Canongate (folio 5)....
Dates: 1694-1785.

Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1741.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.1
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process between John Fairholm of Craigiehall and George Dundas of Dundas concerning the building of a seat in Dalmeny kirk, 1655-1660 (folio 1).(ii) Process at the instance of Jean Dundas of Dundas against George Dundas of Dundas concerning her jointure, 1687-1697, preceded by a typed list of documents (for the final item of which see Adv.MS.80.3.50) (folio 30).(iii) Minutes concerning action by George Wilson...
Dates: 1655-1741.

Letter-book 3 of the Home Mission Secretary of the United Presbyterian Church, with some other letters and documents concerning home and foreign missions., 1854-1872.

 File
Identifier: MS.7736
Scope and Contents The letter-book is for the year 1867.The other letters and documents are as follows:(i) a list, 1854-1870, of the members of the Foreign Mission Committee (Folios 78); (ii) a list, 1870, of subscribers to the ‘Missionary Record’, and letters, 1870-1872, concerning alterations thereto (folio 87); (iii) a copy, undated, of a letter, 1869, to the Duke of Argyll (folio 204); (iv) the Home Mission Report for 1867 (the beginning is lost) (folio 269).Another copy...
Dates: 1854-1872.

Letter-book containing copies of letters of Customs officers in Scottish ports, with lists, May-July 1746, of persons engaged in the Jacobite rising of 1745, being copies of papers delivered to the Lord Justice Clerk., 1746.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1918
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: 1746.

Letter-book of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, with lists, memoranda, and accounts., 1743-1764.

 Item
Identifier: MS.16752
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Letter-book of Lord Milton, 1743-1744, 1760 (folio 1);

(ii) Lists by Lord Milton of his account-books and of the contents of cabinets, and indexes, circa 1760 (folio 25 and lower pastedown);

(iii) Memoranda and accounts of Lord Milton, 1758, 1763-1764 (folio 1 inverted).

Dates: 1743-1764.

Letter book of John William Ballantyne, with a list of correspondents , 3 July 1921-10 April 1923.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13189/78
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of an autobiography written between the years 1910 and 1921 and a diary kept between 1899-1923. Both series of volumes contain letters, photographs and memorabilia pasted in.

Dates: 3 July 1921-10 April 1923.

Letters and copies of letters of Augusta Leigh to Elizabeth Vassall Fox (Lady Holland), John Murray II and John Murray III., 1816-1850, 1960, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.43482
Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent name and then chronologically within each section, with those of uncertain date placed at the end of the sequence.Copy, 1960, of a letter of Augusta Leigh to Elizabeth Vassall Fox (Lady Holland), undated: folios 1-3;Letters of Augusta Leigh to John Murray [II] dated:1816: folios 4-36;1817: folios 37-49;1818: folios 50-60;1819: folio 61-65;1820:...
Dates: 1816-1850, 1960, undated.

Letters and 'miscellaneous documents' of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, chiefly concerning the National Library of Scotland., 1922-1936.

 File
Identifier: MS.25270
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1); (ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows. (ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68); (iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the...
Dates: 1922-1936.

Letters and miscellaneous papers of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’., 1948-[circa 1970], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27436
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of Singer, 1948-1964, undated (folio 1). They include a letter to Marguerite Caetani, 1952, explaining why he used the name 'Burns Singer' (folio 4), and a letter to the publisher Fredric Warburg, ?1956, with proposals for two books (folio 11). (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1957-circa 1970, undated (folio 33). A typescript list of works by Singer is included (folio 41).

Dates: 1948-[circa 1970], undated.

Letters and papers concerning the libraries of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian., 1643-1899.

 File
Identifier: MS.5828
Scope and Contents

Contains, inter alia, book lists of 1643-circa 1663 (some in the hand of the 3rd Earl of Lothian), and a series of letters, 1867-1870, written by Alexander Orrock to the 8th Marquess of Lothian, in which the library and plans for printing some of the family papers are discussed.

Dates: 1643-1899.