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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.

Found in 5131 Collections and/or Records:

‘Autographs, 9, Napoleon & his officers’., 1795-1884.

 File
Identifier: MS.9311
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.

Dates: 1795-1884.

‘Autographs, 10, Napoleon & his officers’., 1779-1870.

 File
Identifier: MS.9312
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.

Dates: 1779-1870.

‘Autographs, 11, Napoleon & his camp’., 1794-1840.

 File
Identifier: MS.9313
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.

Dates: 1794-1840.

Ballads and songs, ancient and modern., [1787]-1831, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.893
Scope and Contents

This material does not appear to have been used by F J Child. Besides British ballads, it includes a note on Spanish ballads by George Tickner of Boston (folio 7), a letter of William Laidlaw (folio 15), a letter of Robert Jamieson, with translations of Danish ballads (folio 23), historical ballads and songs (folios 50-82), two versions of ‘Galatian’, and correspondence of Sir John Sinclair regarding the Gaelic song ‘Malli bheag Og’, 1819-1820 (folio 93).

Dates: [1787]-1831, undated.

'Ballingalliana', being genealogical notes on the family of Ballingall, by Surgeon-Major George Ballingall Stuart., 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2110-2112
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: 19th century.

'Balloon Tytler', a play for radio by Robert McLellan, produced in 1962., 1962.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26365-26366
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.

Dates: 1962.

Barometric readings of the 2nd Earl of Minto in a copy of 'Peacock's Polite Repository' (London,1812)., 1812-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.12227
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: 1812-1813.

Battles and sieges of the War of Liberation (1813). [Small plans of towns fought over or besieged 1813, pasted into scrapbook]. , 1813

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(144)
Scope and Contents

1: Luneburg, Czenstochau, Thorn, Dannigkow, Spandau, Gr Gorschen, Bantzen, Haynau, Hoyerswerda, Luckau, Lowenberg, Goldberg, Gr 2: Beeren, Katzback, Dresden, Hegelsberg, Plagwitz, Kulm, Dennewitz, An der Gohrde, Wartenburg, Dohna, Liebertwolkwitz, Lindenau, Mockern, Wachau, Dresden, Leipzig, Freiburg, Hanau, Schonebeck, Hockheim, Modlin, Dresden, Zamosk, Stettin, Doestburg, Zutphen. 3: Arnheim, Zara, Breda, Gertrundenburg, Friedrichsort, Danzig, Torgau.

Dates: Other: 1813

Bible, probably written in Italy in the 13th century.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.19
Scope and Contents The order of contents is the usual one (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, ii, pages 210-212), except that the Prayer of Solomon is included at the end of Ecclesiasticus (folio 193). The prologues are as listed in ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, with the following exceptions: 2 Chronicles, no prologue; Job, Stegmüller 349; Psalms, Stegmüller numbers 430, 10470, and 1833, 1; Proverbs has two additional prologues, Stegmüller 456 and 455; Jeremiah has two additional...
Dates: Mid 13th century.

Bibliographical notes and correspondence of Andrew Gibson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6356
Scope and Contents

Including letters concerning William Guthrie, "The Christian`s Great Interest" (Dumfries, 1785).

Dates: 1891-1897 and undated.