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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 1168 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Correspondence, photographs and antiquarian collections on Pictish symbol-stones, of Cosmo Gordon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.272- is now Acc.12803.
Dates:
20th century.
‘Crawfurd’s genealogical collections’, containing memoirs and scattered notes of families by George Crawfurd, in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.8
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
“Critique on the ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel.’ A prolusion", by Robert Sym, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, with “Mr. Scott’s remarks in his own handwriting attached”, and an autograph letter of Walter Scott to Robert Sym.
Item
Identifier: MS.667
Dates:
1806.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘An Enquiry into the History of Scotland ...’ by John Pinkerton, 2 volumes (London, 1789), containing his signature on the verso of the title page of each volume, numerous marginalia throughout (some quite lengthy) and a number of sheets and scraps of paper tipped in (most are in the second volume) on which are further notes and other writings.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.6.3(i)-(ii)
Dates:
1789.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘Annals of Scotland’, 2 volumes (Edinburgh, 1776, 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.13(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Each volume contains Macpherson`s signature on the verso of the title page and numerous marginalia, many of which are quite lengthy, throughout, as well as additional notes and extracts on scraps, and some sheets, of paper tipped in at appropriate places. According to a note on the verso of the title page of volume i, Macpherson `inserted everything that occurred to me in printed authors or in manuscript records, which is useful correcting the errors, or supplying the defects of Sir David...
Dates:
1776, 1779.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘History of Scotland from the accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary’, 2 volumes, (London, 1797) by John Pinkerton.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.14(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
Macpherson’s signature is on the verso of the title page of each volume, and a number of usually brief marginalia are scattered throughout volume i, and a few more in volume ii, mostly at the beginning. A few undated notes on scraps of paper are tipped in.
Dates:
1797.
David Macpherson`s copy of ‘The History and Antiquities of Scotland’ by William Maitland, 2 volumes (London, 1757), containing many marginal notes and comments on the text.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.21(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
By far the majority of the notes are in volume i, volume ii being quite lightly marked. Some of these are quite lengthy, and many express disagreement with Maitland. One note, at page 142, is dated 1788, another, at page 227, refers to 1791; the rest are undated.The only additions to the printed leaves are a scrap of paper tipped in between pages 414-415, a prospectus for Macpherson`s edition of ‘Orygynall Cronykyl of Scotland’, 1795, tipped in between pages 756-757, and a...
Dates:
1757.
Daybook, 1728-1753, of Robert and Archibald Dickson, nurserymen at Hassendeanburn.
Item
Identifier: MS.3554
Scope and Contents
According to notes on folios i-ii and pages 32, 169, Robert Dickson owned the book in 1739; he apparently died in 1744, and Archibald owned the book in 1745 and 1750. It contains a record of sales, chiefly of trees and shrubs but also of other plants, produce, and stock, and notes of agreements of Archibald Dickson, mostly with his servants. From page 210 on, there are, in addition, notes of sheep and cattle bought and sold, and of other farming activities and financial dealings,...
Dates:
1728-1759.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1540-1549, 1570-1593, collected, late 17th century, by Alexander Colvill, and John or Henry Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.1.4
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) 'Sinclair, Maitland, Culroes, decisions MS’, to which Thomas Ruddiman has prefixed a note which informs us that it was a copy from the originals in the library of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, who has himself explained the collection;(ii) Subjoined to it is ‘a compend of decisions by an uncertain author’;(iii) Transcript of the manuscript inventory of pious donations from James I’s reign to that of James VI....
Dates:
1540-1549, 1570-1593.
Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), 1692-1695, collected late 17th century, by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.2.14
Scope and Contents
A volume of Lord Fountainhall’s notes of decisions from 1 November 1692 to 28 February 1695. It is marked by the author ‘P.P’. At the beginning are Thomas Crawfurd’s notes on Buchanan.
At the end is ‘A judgement censure & opinion of sundrie books containing also a collection of some remarkable passages thereof – 1679 – an intimation of the Journal des Sçavans’ (57 pages) by Fountainhall.
Dates:
1692-1695.
Description and topographical notes of the Shire of Fife by Sir James Balfour, in his own hand, with notes and additions in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.34
Dates:
17th century.
Descriptions by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, of the coronations of Alexander III in 1249 (folio 1), Robert II in 1371 (folio 6), and James VI in 1567 (folio 15).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.7.10
Scope and Contents
The first two, to which Balfour has appended notes of his sources, are related to the versions in Adv.MS.33.2.36, printed in Balfour`s ‘Ancient heraldic and antiquarian tracts’ pages 32-41. See also ‘The Medieval Scottish coronation service’.
Dates:
17th century.
Dialogue ‘De Oratoribus’, variously ascribed to Tacitus and to Quintilian, being pages 1183-1212 of a printed work, 'cum conjectures MS. D. Al. Cunninghamij [Alexander Cunningham], Hagae Comitum conscriptis vel potius collatis cum MS’.
Item
Identifier: MS.3400
Scope and Contents
The manuscript notes are all textual emendations.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Diaries and other papers of W M Docharty.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6334/1-28
Scope and Contents
Concerning his mountaineering expeditions in the British Isles, the Alps and Canada.
Dates:
1929-1968.
Diary, 1745-1746, of a clerk in the leadmines at Leadhills, with unconnected papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9523
Scope and Contents
Includes:
notes, 18th century, on optics
farm accounts, 1822-1830 and 1843-1859, of Glenholm, Lockerbie
farm accounts, 1818-1829
Dates:
circa 1700-1859.
Diary and notes of Mary Stewart Richardson.
File
Identifier: Acc.5729
Scope and Contents
Concerning her nursing service in France.
Dates:
1914-1915.
Diary of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.5059
Scope and Contents
Also included are:
(i) Three of John Ballantynes' letters, 1820-1821 (tipped-in at folios 1, 16 and 19);
(ii) Minutes of a meeting, in June 1821, of Ballantynes' trustees (tipped-in at folio 22);
(iii) A letter, 1821, of Ballantynes' brother, James (tipped-in at folio 26).
On the flyleaf is a note concerning the provenance and identity of the volume.
Dates:
December 1814-July 1818, 1821.
Diary, sermons and notes of a minister in British Guiana.
File
Identifier: Acc.9274
Dates:
1840-1841 and undated.
Digital copies of letters of James, Robert and William Low, emigrants in the USA.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13361
Scope and Contents
Digital copies in pdf format of ten letters, 1871 - 1884, of James, Robert and William Low of Forfar, emigrants in New Jersey, Texas and Chicago, with transcriptions of the letters in word and rich text format and family history notes in pdf format.
Dates:
1871 - 1884.
Documents, chiefly copies, and papers in the claim to the ancient earldom of Levenax, or Lennox, drawn up about 1772-1774 (but not brought to the House of Lords) by George Cockburn Haldane of Gleneagles.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20001-20003
Dates:
?1195-1844, undated.
'Domestic manners and private life of Sir Walter Scott’ by James Hogg (Glasgow, 1834), containing a brief note from Scott to James Ballantyne, 1824, and an undated note from Hogg to Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: MS.9610
Dates:
1824-1834, undated.
Drafts and notes of and for the two volumes of ‘The life and letters of James Hogg’ by Alan Lang Strout, Professor of English in the Texas Technological College.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10492-10497
Dates:
1800-1832, 1933-1937, 1946, undated.
Drafts of, and notes for, Dennis Smith`s contribution to "For the Encouragement of Learning" (1989)
File
Identifier: Acc.12607
Dates:
circa 1980-1989.
Drafts of lectures, notes, and other papers on ecclesiastical subjects by John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3555-3563
Dates:
Late 19th century-[before 1911].