Memorandums.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents recording information used for internal communication.
Found in 993 Collections and/or Records:
Contracts, schemes, and other papers concerning the estate of Ladykirk, Berwickshire., 1771-1775, undated.
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Identifier: MS.999
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From the Series:
Detailed schemes of inclosing, building, stocking, planting, and general work on the farm are described.
Dates:
1771-1775, undated.
Copies, 19th century, and original papers collected by Sir William Fraser, 16th century-1793.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.25
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The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Latin legal abbreviations, 16th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Speech in Latin addressed to `domine doctissime coeterique commilitones mei suavissimi`, in praise of modesty. Late 16th or early 17th century. (Folio 2.)(iii) Transcript, 19th century, of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3 February, 1590, concerning the slaughter of David Taillor by William Spottiswood of that Ilk and others. Cf. ‘The...
Dates:
16th century-1793.
Copies of correspondence, chiefly compiled for James Stuart, probably as part of his defence against accusations of inefficiency., 1767-1783.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8403-8412
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From the Sub-Series:
The papers chiefly refer to James Stuart's stay in India as an officer (later Commander-in-Chief) of the forces of the East India Company based at Fort St George (Madras). The most detailed portions of the papers cover the year immediately prior to Stuart's dismissal from the Company's service in 1783. Stuart appears to have retained these papers as justification of his actions and as a defence against accusations of inefficiency. He made different sets of copies of much of his...
Dates:
1767-1783.
Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
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Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates:
1796, 1799.
Copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury. Volume II., 1794.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vol. II
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The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.
Dates:
1794.
Copies of memoranda on suggested naval operations by Sir Home Riggs Popham, including copies of his letters to Lord St Vincent., 1803-1804.
Series
Identifier: MSS.67A-B
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From the Series:
Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.
Dates:
1803-1804.
Copies of memoranda on suggested naval operations by Sir Home Riggs Popham, including copies of his letters to Lord St Vincent, volume 1., 1803.
Item
Identifier: MS.67A
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From the Series:
Contains also some copies of replies or of draft replies.
Dates:
1803.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
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Copies of memoranda on suggested naval operations by Sir Home Riggs Popham, including copies of his letters to Lord St Vincent.
Copies of memoranda on suggested naval operations by Sir Home Riggs Popham, including copies of his letters to Lord St Vincent, volume 2., 1804.
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Identifier: MS.67B
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Across the left-hand corner of folio 3a is the following note in pencil: 'This was written in consequence of General Pichegru and Dumourier wishing Government to attack Walcheren, to which I strongly objected in consultation with those officers, and was then desired to propose a scheme for offensive operations'. Sir Home Riggs Popham suggested attacks on the Island of Oleron in France and the islands of Schaven and Goeree in Holland.
Dates:
1804.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
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Copies of memoranda on suggested naval operations by Sir Home Riggs Popham, including copies of his letters to Lord St Vincent.
Copies of miscellaneous dispatches, memoranda and papers sent by the Foreign Office to the 2nd Earl of Minto as First Lord of the Admiralty or as a member of the Cabinet., 1839-1840.
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Identifier: MS.12218
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From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1839-1840.
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, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Confidential papers chiefly printed for the use of members of the Cabinet.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
Copies of official correspondence and memoranda concerning the Baroda reforms and the subsidiary reports., 1808-1809.
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Identifier: MS.13697
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The papers may have been compiled about the time of Alexander Walker's departure from Baroda.
Dates:
1808-1809.
Copies of official correspondence, with some original reports concerning India., [?Circa 1820]-1824.
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Identifier: MS.13740
Scope and Contents
The reports include:(i) The cultivation of coffee, 1824 (folio 3);(ii) The Baroda revenue system, undated, but post 1821 (folio 21);(iii) Memorandum, 7 August 1820, on the revision of the judicial code of the Bombay presidency, 7 August 1820 (folio 32);(iv) Regulations, undated, but circa 1820, concerning the duties of a collector, revenue regulations concerning village representatives, and queries concerning land values, with a glossary of...
Dates:
[?Circa 1820]-1824.
Copies of official memoranda and correspondence, 1805-1808, of Alexander Walker concerning the Baroda finances and including explanatory memoranda about native accounting and about Sanskrit terms, compiled circa 1826., 1805-1808.
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Identifier: MS.13842
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From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1805-1808.
Copies of speeches given by the Earl of Rosebery, together with drafts and notes, 1888-1896; with memoranda of conversations and meetings, 1867-1908, undated., 1867-1908, undated.
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Identifier: MS.10176
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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:
1867-1908, undated.
Copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's letters and papers., 1806-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11283-11292
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From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
1806-1813.
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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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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General correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto containing material relating to all aspects of his Indian career.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
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Identifier: MS.6135
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The items are also closely associated with William Maitland of Lethington, and are chiefly concerned with the diplomatic negotiations of the period with England and France; they are apparently unpublished. Where no exact date is given on the document, the letters have been dated from internal evidence.The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter, [end of February 1563], of William Maitland of Lethington to François, Duc de Guise, reporting the course of his...
Dates:
[1562]-1563, [1568].
Copy, 17th century, of the statutes of Christ`s College, Cambridge, 1506.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.4
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The text is followed (folio 28) by an additional chapter in the form of question and answer: `Dubia quaedam per socios Collegij Christi ... suo visitatori proposita et per eundem declarata`. On folio 29, in another hand, are copies of a declaration by the Vice-Chancellor,Andrew Perne, 1581, a memorandum of Thomas Osborne`s admission to the college, 1581, and the finding of Lord Burghley in a dispute between Osborne and the college, 1584.The initial on folio 1 is...
Dates:
1506.
Copy letters and memoranda of concerning Bábáji, the Gaikwar's Commander., 1802-1810.
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Identifier: MS.13650
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The copies were probably compiled circa 1825.
Included is a memorandum on panchayet courts in Baroda in 1808 (folio 23).
Dates:
1802-1810.
Correspondence and accounts of the Faculty of Advocates concerning publication and sales of Faculty Decisions.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/14
Dates:
1809-1837 undated
Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War., 1808-1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.46.1.22-46.3.5
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The associated papers consist of intelligence reports (many of which are illustrated by sketch-maps) by British officers, letters and memoranda forwarded from Spanish and Portuguese leaders, and a few intercepted letters of French Generals.
Dates:
1808-1814.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
Correspondence and memoranda between SNH and the Scottish Office., 1991-1996.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/1107
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On proposals to set up a Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
Dates:
1991-1996.
Correspondence and memoranda chiefly concerning the Duke of Bedford., 1805-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.12921
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The contents are as follows.
(i) Correspondence and memorandum, March 1806, concerning the Duke of Bedford's instructions on appointment as Lord Lieutenant, relating chiefly to the Catholic question (folio 1);
(ii) Three memoranda, 1805-1806, one in the Duke of Bedford's hand, relating to Maynooth College (folio 12);
(iii) Copies of 'secret' letters of the Earl Spencer and Lord Howick to the Duke of Bedford concerning amendment of the Mutiny Act to allow Roman Catholics into the army on the...
Dates:
1805-1806.
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 chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807.
Correspondence and memoranda chiefly concerning the proposed printing by T and A Constable of the Skerryvore edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's works for Odhams Limited., 1936.
File
Identifier: MS.23614
Dates:
1936.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letter books, correspondence and other records of the printing firm of T and A Constable, Edinburgh, together with records of the Edinburgh Press, which was amalgamated with the firm in 1936.
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Letter books, correspondence and other records chiefly of T and A Constable.
Correspondence and memoranda, chiefly of the ‘Ossian Committee’ of the Highland Society of Scotland in preparing the Ossian Report (1805).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.24
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Also contains correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair in preparing ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. There are no Gaelic items. For a detailed listing see John Mackechnie.
Dates:
1797-[1805 or before.]
Correspondence and memoranda concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to Lord William Seymour, General Officer Commanding British forces in Canada., 1898-1900.
File
Identifier: MS.12578
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The papers and correspondence chiefly concern relations between Lord William Seymour and General Sir Edward Hutton, General Officer Commanding Dominion Militia, and to a lesser extent the raising of Canadian troops for South Africa. Appended (folio 291) is a memorandum prepared by Seymour in ?1903 giving a statement of his position in Canada, and of his disagreements with Hutton and the 4th Earl of Minto.
Dates:
1898-1900.
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 Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to Canada.
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Papers relating to the 4th Earl of Minto's tenure of office as Governor-General of Canada.
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to military affairs in Canada.
Correspondence and memoranda of Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, largely concerning his election as Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire and related dispute with Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1760-1761.
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Identifier: MS.16734
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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:
1760-1761.
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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Correspondence of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.