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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 5133 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of correspondence and other documents of James Stuart., 1783.
File
Identifier: MS.8411
Scope and Contents
Many of the letters in this volume are duplicates of those in MSS.8408-8409.The papers consist of:(i) 'Journal or Extracts of Letters', 24 February-28 July 1783 (folio 1);(ii) Copies of administrative correspondence, 31 January-9 July 1783 (folio 58);(iii) Copies of administrative correspondence, July-October 1783 (folio 92);(iv) Copies of administrative correspondence, July-September 1783 (folio 118);(v) Copies of...
Dates:
1783.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence and papers of Major-General James Stuart, younger brother of Andrew Stuart.
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Copies of correspondence, chiefly compiled for James Stuart, probably as part of his defence against accusations of inefficiency.
Copies of 'Higden Mappaemundi', numbers 2-18, with 'Higden Cartography', being a typed list of the maps and notes on differences., 14th century-17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3024
Dates:
14th century-17th century.
Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.3
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.7.18.The contents are as follows:(i) ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’, ‘Arminianorum abjectiones adversus hanc doctrinam’, 1653 (folio 1);
(ii) ‘Rerum scoticarum compendium in usum scholarum, per Alexandrum Humium’, 1660 (folio 72);
(iii) ‘Clavis in Buchananum, hoc est, nomi num propriorum aliorumque elucidatio’, undated (folio 165).At the end of the volume are some...
Dates:
1653, 1660, undated.
Copies of legal documents, 2nd half of 17th century, and copies, 1657 and early 18th century, of valuations, 16th century, of places in Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.5
Scope and Contents
(i) 'Taxtio super integra ecclesia Scoticana tam super pralatiuris quam aliis beneficis numonluis ad valarem annuum £40 sel ad rationem £30,000' (page 1);
(ii) 'Libellus taxationum seu contrivutionum spiritualitatis conceparcum S.D.N. Regi per fraelator et Clericas Regni Scotiae' (page 16);
(iii) Extent rolls of the Shires of Scotland in some instances distinguishing the property of the Crown, kirklands, and temporal lands, all apparently of the 16th century but dated at the end Sept 10 1687...
Dates:
16th century, 2nd half of 17th century.
Copies of letters, 1769-1808, of Ann Murray Keith addressed to Jeremiah Hill, a Bristol merchant.
File
Identifier: MS.3524
Scope and Contents
The letters deal largely with personal and family affairs, including those of Ann Murray Keith's friends, Mrs Baird of Newbyth and the Countess of Balcarres, but there are also references to public affairs and to the social life of the time.
According to a note in the volume the copies were made in 1829 at the instance of Charles Hill, a son of Jeremiah and the owner of the originals.
Dates:
1769-1808.
Copies of letters, 1802-1806, of Charlotte Edgeworth to her brother and sisters, and of a description by Henry Edgeworth of a journey to Edinburgh, October 1803., 1802-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.2722
Scope and Contents
Two family letters, notes, and copies of poems in various hands have been inserted on folios 20-46.
Dates:
1802-1806.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems.
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 I., 1793-1794.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.4.1.2, vol. I
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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:
1793-1794.
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
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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 letters, chiefly of James Hogg, and rough biographical notes on Hogg by Alan Strout., 1800-[1946, or before], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.10496-10497
Copies of letters, notes and other papers of Stephen Hislop., 1837-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8958
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies by Stephen Hislop of his letters to the conveners (Robert Gordon, James Buchanan, William K Tweedie) of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, with some other letters on financial matters, 1845-1852, 1857, undated (folio 1);
(ii) Copies in a later hand of Hislop's letters, 1846, 1850-1851, 1862, undated, to his colleague Robert Hunter (folio 84);
(iii) Notes, 1844-1845, 1851-1852, by Hislop on expenses (folio 131);
(iv) Various...
Dates:
1837-1862, undated.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1876-1877.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.5.1-50.5.4
Scope and Contents
Campbell requested that these volumes be kept as his journal and for possible publication.
Dates:
1876-1877.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India., 1876.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.1
Scope and Contents
This volume describes Campbell’s voyage to Bombay, his stay in that city and in Simla. Later notes in Campbell’s hand have been added at the beginning of the volume, dated July 1883, and at the end, loosely inserted, is an introduction to the letters he wrote with a view to their publication. Also loosely inserted are notes he had made before embarking for India on ‘Matters and things common to the far East and far West’ (folio 124).A copy of Campbell’s ‘On Current British...
Dates:
1876.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Collection of journals and sketchbooks of John Francis Campbell, kept during his travels throughout the world.
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Copies of letters of John Francis Campbell to his mother from India.
Copies of letters to Cardinal Giovanni Morone; ‘Una Ghirlanda Fiorentina, 1938’; copies of poems; and notes on Shelley in Italy by John Purves., 16th century, [?1920-?1940.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15707
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.
Dates:
16th century, [?1920-?1940.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
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Notebooks, undated, of John Purves, probably belonging to the period 1920-1940.
Copies of notes of Ishbel MacDonald; with some unidentified negatives., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13629/6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Research notes of Dr Alice G. Vines for her book `The MacDonald Women: Margaret and Ishbel`.
Dates:
Undated.
Copies of official correspondence concerning Alexander Walker’s service in India and his subsequent claiming of arrears of salary and allowances; with some miscellaneous autobiographical notes by Walker., 1783-1815.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13729-13735
Scope and Contents
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:
1783-1815.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents
On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows:
(i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3);
(ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4);
(iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11);
(iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates:
1546-Late 16th century.
Copies of papers of L L Ardern.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9693
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes and printed articles.
Dates:
1953-1969 and undated.
Copies of papers relating to Galloway, in various hands of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Retours in Kirkcudbrightshire, extracted from the Chancery records, 1542-1682; in two series (folios 1, 15).(ii) Copy of an extract (certified by Thomas Gibson, Principal Clerk of Session) of the tax-roll of Kirkcudbrightshire in 1613 (folio 44).(iii) Copy, from the Exchequer records, of the rental of the Bishopric of Galloway in 1685 (folio 46).(iv) Copy of the tax-roll of the Lordship of Galloway,...
Dates:
1542-1685, 1741.
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.
File
Identifier: MS.10176
Scope and Contents
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 Stair`s "Institutions of the Law of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1681 and 1693).
File
Identifier: Acc.11284
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript additions, late 17th century.
Dates:
circa 1681-1699.
Copies of the indexes of the principal published collections of Scottish dance music from the 18th to the 20th century, compiled by John Murdoch Henderson., 18th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21709
Scope and Contents
The volume includes notes on each of the collections and on pages 100-102 some biographical notes about composers of the tunes. On pages 184-193 there is a list of the first appearances of tunes in these collections.
Dates:
18th century-mid 20th century.
Copies, on paper watermarked 1811, of an opinion on the descent of and right to the title of the Earl of Moray, 1785 (folio 1), a brief for William, Lord Belhaven, claiming the rights to vote as a Scots Representative Peer in the election of 1790 (folio 29), notes on the claim of Andrew John Drummond to the viscountcy of Strathallan, ?1790 (folio 37), and the case of Francis, Lord Napier, concerning the election of 1790 (folio 43)., 1785, 1790.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
1785, 1790.
Copies or drafts of letters and memoranda of Mary, Queen of Scots, or associated closely with her, probably written by various secretaries.
File
Identifier: MS.6135
Scope and Contents
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].
Copies, possibly 1831-1832, of letters, February 1831-April 1832, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn., February 1831-April 1832.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.9.1.8
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Henry Cockburn states in an introductory account of Francis Jeffrey`s career (Adv.MS.9.1.8) that, "While he [Jeffrey] was in London he wrote to me almost daily, and his letters are so excellent, and so illegible, that I have resolved to copy them..." (folio 3). The letters are concerned mainly with political and official matters, particularly the drafting and passage of the Scottish Reform Bill, Municipal Corporations Bill, and other Scottish legislation and patronage. After...
Dates:
February 1831-April 1832.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Legal and political correspondence and papers of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice.
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Copies, possibly 1831-1849, of letters, 1831-1849, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn, largely written during Jeffrey`s period of office as Lord Advocate, 1831-1834.
Copies, possibly 1831-1849, of letters, 1831-1849, of Francis Jeffrey to Henry Cockburn, largely written during Jeffrey`s period of office as Lord Advocate, 1831-1834., 1831-1849.
File
Identifier: Adv.MSS.9.1.8-9.1.11
Scope and Contents
Henry Cockburn states in an introductory account of Francis Jeffrey`s career (Adv.MS.9.1.8) that, "While he [Jeffrey] was in London he wrote to me almost daily, and his letters are so excellent, and so illegible, that I have resolved to copy them..." (folio 3). The letters are concerned mainly with political and official matters, particularly the drafting and passage of the Scottish Reform Bill, Municipal Corporations Bill, and other Scottish legislation and patronage. After...
Dates:
1831-1849.