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:
Foreign mission records of the United Free Church of Scotland, incorporating records of the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland., 1846-1936.
Sub-Group
Identifier: MSS.7638-8011
Scope and Contents
The United Free Church of Scotland was formed from the union of the United Presbyterian Church with the Free Church of Scotland in 1900. In 1919 the United Free Church took over the Gold Coast mission of the Basler Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft.
Dates:
1846-1936.
General correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto containing material relating to all aspects of his Indian career., 1806-1814.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11283-11336
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:
1806-1814.
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.
General file, containing press releases, audience figures, tour schedules and minutes of company meetings., 1981-1982, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.10893/89
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Containing papers on the following Scottish plays: 'Gold in his boots' by George Munro; 'U.A.B. - Scotland' by Harry Trott; 'Johnny Noble' by Ewan MacColl; "In time o' strife" by Joe Corrie; and 'Men should weep' by Ena Lamont Stewart.
Dates:
1981-1982, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files relating to the Clydebuilt season, 1982, in which Scottish plays from the 1920s-1940s were revived.
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Miscellaneous papers relating to the Clydebuilt season.
Heads of School Library Services Minutes., 1996-2002.
File
Identifier: Acc.13657/66
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Papers of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), including papers relating to its foundation in 1991.
Dates:
1996-2002.
‘Journal and plan of the Movements of the Main Army in the Carnatic’: a volume of printed material prepared by James Stuart., 1783.
File
Identifier: MS.8448
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
With the exception of MS.8455, these volumes of printed correspondence were prepared by James Stuart in answer to the accusations raised against him. The contents duplicate to a large extent letters recorded elsewhere in the catalogue. The majority of the volumes contain manuscript indexes and abstracts, and manuscript marginal notes.
Dates:
1783.
Journal, "Record of the Braids Schoolboys` Meeting. May 1911"., 1911-1914.
Item
Identifier: MS.50245
Scope and Contents
The Braids Schoolboys` Meeting was a combined chapel meeting group for pupils of the five preparatory academies of greater Edinburgh, including Merchiston Castle School, which William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn had attended.The journal is divided into the following sections:Names and addresses of Boys. Folios 2-7.Braids Schoolboys` committee, 1913-1914. Folio 3.Committees. Folios 10-12.Record of meetings. Folios 24-26.Record...
Dates:
1911-1914.
Legal documents concerning William Dunbrek and the Temple lands of Lhanbryd., 1509, 1610.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.A.70-72
Scope and Contents
Deeds, [1509], relating to the Temple lands of Lhanbryd; minutes, 1509, of the Sheriff`s Court which determined in favour of the claims laid to them by William Dumbreck of Barmuckity; and procuratory of resignation, 1610, by William Dumbreck of Orton to Alexander Innes of Coxton and Mr John Innes of Haltoun, of the same lands, with charter following thereon.
Dates:
1509, 1610.
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 papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1655-1832.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.5.1-80.5.6
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise formal documents, correspondence, memorials, etc. (including many private papers), concerning legal actions raised by or against family members or their trustees. Most processes, unless described otherwise, relate mainly to disputes with tenants about debts, the terms of tacks, and other complications of tenancy.
Dates:
1655-1832.
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.
Legal papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1786-1800.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.5.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Process of Margaret Forbes, Queensferry, and Isobel Forbes, as heirs of John Forbes, Quartermaster of the East Indiaman ‘Stormont’, against Andrew Burt in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and against the tutors and curators of James Dundas of Dundas in the Court of Session, 1786-1797 (folio 1).(ii) Process of Dundas trustees against George Ponton in Overton, 1788-1790 (folio 118).(iii) Process of Dundas...
Dates:
1786-1800.
Letter-book of the secretary of the Bombay Corresponding Committee of the Scottish Missionary Society., 1825, 1829-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.8013
Scope and Contents
The secretary during this period was the Reverend Joseph Laurie.
Three folios have been lost at the beginning, and the end is also incomplete.
Inverted at the end of the letter-book is a minute, 1825, of a meeting in Bombay.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1825, 1829-1832.
Letter from the Scottish Office regarding a meeting with Scottish women's organisations, including minutes., 1993.
File
Identifier: Acc.13806/15
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection reflects Dr Esther Breitenbach's feminist activism from the 1970s onwards. This includes papers reflecting her contributions to the Women’s Legal and Financial Independence Campaign, the Radical Scotland Women’s Group, and the European Forum of Socialist Feminists, as well as papers relating to the activities of the Women's Co-ordination Group, which advanced the demand for 50:50 gender representation. The collection includes assorted annotated pamphlets, conference papers,...
Dates:
1993.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Dr Esther Breitenbach.
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Papers collected by Esther Breitenbach relating to women and gender in Scotland, and to her work as a feminist activist.
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Papers relating to women's representation in Scottish parliamentary politics collected by Esther Breitenbach.
Letter to and draft minutes of the curators of the Faculty of Advocates Library., 1830-1831.
File
Identifier: F.R.126e
Letters and enclosures of John Malcolm concerning diplomatic relations with Iran, and miscellaneous letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1807-1811, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11715-11718
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.
Dates:
1807-1811, 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.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
Letters and minutes of the Hibernian Shareholders' Association., 1991-1992.
File
Identifier: Acc.10691/19
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.
Dates:
1991-1992.
Letters and papers, mostly concerning the Church of Scotland., 1231-1641.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.8
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the case brought by John Lindsay, Lord Menmuir, against Robert Wallace; the ‘Second Book of Discipline’; the Act of Revocation; and the protests against the Service-book. Most of the papers concerning the Covenant have been published more than once, and some appeared as contemporary pamphlets.Copy of a charter, 1360, granted by David II to the Bishop of Aberdeen; in Latin (folio 1). - This was printed from Adv.MS.16.1.10 in ‘Registrum episcopatus...
Dates:
1231-1641.
Letters and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1806.
File
Identifier: MS.11280
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Copies of dispatches and enclosures of the Bengal Government to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, May-June 1806 (folio 1);
(ii) Letters and papers, 1806, concerning claims on the East India Company by Benjamin Lacam, Lady Jane Jodrell, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Sentleger, the estate of William Burke, Robert Townsend Farquar, and Walter Farquar (folio 94);
(iii) Copy of a minute by the 1st Earl of Minto, as President of the Board of Control,...
Dates:
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 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 President of the Board of Control.
Letters and papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies concerning roads and bridges in Perthshire., 1803-1838.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9947-9948
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this material covers the dispute between the 4th Earl (later Marquess) of Breadalbane and his neighbours over the construction of the road on the south side of the Tay through the Taymouth estate in 1824-1825. Also included are minutes of meetings of the Road Trustees, and papers concerning the erection of tolls.
Dates:
1803-1838.
Letters and papers of Thomas Stamford Raffles and the 1st Earl of Minto., 1811-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11699-11700
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.
Dates:
1811-1813.
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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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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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.
Letters and papers of various correspondents., 1579-1844.
File
Identifier: MS.3134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous letters. Among the writers are:
The Earl of Mar, to Sir George Bowes, Marshal of Berwick, 1579 (number 1);
Edward Kellie, Receiver and Director of Music of the Chapel Royal, on arrangements made by him for services in Holyrood, 1632 (number 3); printed in Charles Rogers, ‘History of the Chapel Royal of Scotland’ (Grampian Club, 1882), page clxvi;
Nicolas Briot, making recommendations regarding the copper coinage of Scotland, 1631...
Dates:
1579-1844.
Letters, drafts, and documents of and concerning Henry Mackenzie., 1781-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.646
Scope and Contents
The contents include:(i) Letters and drafts of letters of Henry Mackenzie to William Carmichael, USA, Minister to Spain, 1781, referring to the New Town of Edinburgh, Principal Robertson, Professor Adam Ferguson, Dr Blair, Adam Smith, his own literary work, and the founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in the hand of an amanuensis with corrections by Mackenzie (folio 1); to Pitt, 1792, thanking him for his ‘valuable additions’ to Mackenzie’s ‘Review of the Principal...
Dates:
1781-1825.
Letters, minutes and accounts relating to the Hibernian 50 Club., 1976-1993.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10691/12-13
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.
Dates:
1976-1993.
Letters, minutes and memoranda, chiefly drafts and copies of the 1st Earl of Minto, with material relating to the public debts of Java., 1811-1812.
File
Identifier: MS.11295
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:
1811-1812.
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.
Letters, minutes and other papers of the Abbotsford Club., 1714-1857, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1867
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Letters, orders for paper, minutes of meetings, lists of subscriptions, etc., 1834-1843, 1857 (folio 1);(ii) Copies of letters, 1714-1726, of the Earls of Mar and Inverness to Alexander Robertson of Strowan, preceded by a short account of Strowan, undated (folio 44);(iii) Printed minutes of meetings, 1840-1842, 1844, and rules of the Club, 1842 (folio 81);(iv) Specimen cheque and receipts taken from the Club's...
Dates:
1714-1857, undated.