Minutes. Administrative records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records of what was said and done at meetings or conferences.
Found in 644 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the Commonwealth Writers' Conference, Edinburgh., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9403/26-49
Correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan chiefly concerning the establishment of a National Library for Scotland., 1922-1934.
File
Identifier: MS.25268
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters from prominent Scots, chiefly sponsors of Hugh Pattison Macmillan's public memorial, "A National Library for Scotland: Proposal to Establish a Scottish National Library on the Basis of the Advocates' Library", (folio 1);
(ii) Correspondence and papers, 1922-1925, 1934, concerning the Scottish National Library Endowment Trust established on the basis of the Proposal. Correspondents include: James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde; Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar...
Dates:
1922-1934.
Correspondence and papers of Ian Dunn and related organisations concerning gay rights activism., 1967-1998, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11905/47-163
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers concerning personal interests (town planning, left-wing politics, Mansfield Place Church, Edinburgh Central Times) and gay rights activism – especially the activities of the Scottish Minorities Group, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland.
Dates:
1967-1998, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, relating to the Carlton Club., 1971-1977, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11628/237-243
Dates:
1971-1977, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Wilson, missionary in Bombay., 1826-1875, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8955
Scope and Contents
The principal contents are: letters (with typescript copies) of John Wilson as secretary of the Edinburgh Association of Theological Students (folio 1); his plans for missionary work (folio 36); letters to him from various orientalists and politicians (folio 46); papers on George Strachan (folio 116); ninth-century accounts of India (folio 122); notes on Indian history (folio 134); a translation by Aviet Aganoor of Eznik's treatise against the Parsis (folio 159); and a paper (imperfect at...
Dates:
1826-1875, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Minto concerning their commands in the Roxburgh Regiment, Volunteer Infantry and the 1st Regiment, Roxburghshire Local Militia respectively., 1797-1803.
File
Identifier: MS.13366
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1797-1803.
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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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the militia and volunteers in Roxburghshire.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Minto concerning their commands in the Roxburgh Regiment, Volunteer Infantry and the 1st Regiment, Roxburghshire Local Militia respectively.
Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java and other Dutch possessions in the East Indies., 1808-1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11691-11711
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.
Dates:
1808-1814.
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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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India., 1806-1815, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11283-11739
Scope and Contents
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:
1806-1815, 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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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
Correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto, including letters from Henry Brougham and Sir John Sinclair, on the Farmers' Property Tax and on the current agricultural and industrial depression., 1807-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.12121
Scope and Contents
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:
1807-1823.
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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Correspondence and papers addressed to the 2nd Earl of Minto on particular topics of political interest.
Correspondence and papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to the voyageurs., 1884-1886.
File
Identifier: MS.12549
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The 4th Earl of Minto's main preoccupations were with the raising of a voyageur force for service in Egypt, the employment of Canadian forces in the imperial service, and the rebellion of Louis Riel in the North-West in which he was personally involved.
Dates:
1884-1886.
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 service as Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada.
Correspondence and papers of the secretary and treasurer of the Scottish Association for Mental Health, Edinburgh, of and concerning affiliated local voluntary organisations., 1930-1975, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7170/[Boxes] 4(1)-9(11)
Correspondence and papers on various actual and projected lead or copper mines in Scotland., 1784-1792.
File
Identifier: MS.12876
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
With letters and reports on the lead mines of Islay, 1771-1785.
Dates:
1784-1792.
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 John Elliot (1732-1808), 4th son of Lord Minto, Lord Justice Clerk.
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Estate, financial and legal correspondence and papers of and concerning Admiral John Elliot.
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Correspondence and papers concerning Admiral John Elliot's mining ventures in Perthshire and southern Scotland for copper and lead deposits.
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Correspondence and papers on various actual and projected lead or copper mines in Scotland.
Correspondence and papers relating to Janet Adam Smith and her involvement with the National Library of Scotland., 1953-1999.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13861/78-80
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1953-1999.
Correspondence and papers relating to membership of Janet Adam Smith and involvement in the Alpine Club., 1957-1999.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/133
Scope and Contents
Containing:
Notes on articles and obituaries written by Janet Adam Smith about climbers - Christine Bicknell, and husband and wife team - Alison Chadwick and Janusz Onysckiewicz.
Minutes of meetings, rules and regulations of the Club and Library.
Club exhibition catalogues.
Dates:
1957-1999.
Correspondence and papers relating to publications and publishers., 1968-2012, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13416/12-29
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Literary papers of Alasdair Gray, including ledgers and notebooks used for journal entries, drafts of letters and poems, working notes and illustrations. Literary papers and correspondence include material relating to 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2010) and 'Every short story' (Canongate, 2012). The collection of CDs and DVDs includes scans and drafts for these works as well as 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009).There is also a small collection of printed material, mostly...
Dates:
1968-2012, undated.
Correspondence and records of the Hibernian Fifty Club., 1933-2004.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12436/8-10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.
Dates:
1933-2004.
Correspondence between the Scottish Poetry Library and organisations., 1988-2012.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13626/27-44
Correspondence concerning roads in East Stirlingshire., 1757-1849, 1864.
File
Identifier: MSS.10887-10889
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
1757-1849, 1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly eighteenth to nineteenth century, of the Grahams of Airth.
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Airth estate papers.
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Papers concerning roads in East Stirlingshire, particularly on the carse, but including material relating to the reconstruction of Stirling Bridge in 1823.
Correspondence, June 1823-1849, 1864, concerning roads in East Stirlingshire., 1781-1864.
File
Identifier: MS.10889
Scope and Contents
The manuscript also contains (folio 174) minutes of meetings of the Road Trustees for various years between 1781 and 1840.
Dates:
1781-1864.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly eighteenth to nineteenth century, of the Grahams of Airth.
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Airth estate papers.
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Papers concerning roads in East Stirlingshire, particularly on the carse, but including material relating to the reconstruction of Stirling Bridge in 1823.
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Correspondence concerning roads in East Stirlingshire.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and speeches relating the ‘Paths for all initiative., 1995-1996.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/854
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.
Dates:
1995-1996.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and speeches relating the ‘Paths for all initiative., 1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/855
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.
Dates:
1997.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and speeches relating the ‘Paths for all initiative., 1998.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/856
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.
Dates:
1998.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and speeches relating the ‘Paths for all initiative., 1999.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/857
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.
Dates:
1999.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and speeches relating the ‘Paths for all initiative., June-December 1999.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/858
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.
Dates:
June-December 1999.
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, and speeches relating the ‘Paths for all initiative., 2000.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/859
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
"Paths for all" initiative aimed to create up to 200 local path networks throughout Scotland.
Dates:
2000.