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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 5133 Collections and/or Records:
Two parodies of poems, 1818, of John Dryden and of 'Monk' Lewis by William Clapperton, teacher of French in Edinburgh, and translations, 1821, of Scots songs into Latin by James Beattie, writer in Edinburgh., 1818, 1821.
File
Identifier: MS.2745
Scope and Contents
There are notes on the authors (folios 6, 15) by George R Kinloch.
Dates:
1818, 1821.
Two sets of rough proofs of Cecil L`Estrange Ewen, "A History of Surnames of the British Isles" (London, 1931).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3841
Scope and Contents
Enclosing the author`s notes for a second edition.
Dates:
1931.
‘Two Theban queens’ by Colin Campbell (London, 1909); the author's copy.
File
Identifier: MS.9048
Scope and Contents
The volume contains Colin Campbell’s signature on the flyleaf, a sketch at page 84, and a few pencil notes in his hand dispersed through the printed text. Inside the front cover are pasted a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue (folio 1) and a cutting from an unidentified newspaper containing a review of the book (folio 2).Two letters, 1925, to Campbell from Professor Francis Ll. Griffith in search of a copy of the book, which were formerly loosely enclosed at the title page,...
Dates:
1909.
Typed copy with notes of dispatches from Cyrene by Lieutenant Robert Smith.
File
Identifier: Acc.10632
Dates:
circa 1992.
Typed editorial comments, with author`s notes added, by R L C Lorimer.
File
Identifier: Acc.5767
Scope and Contents
Concerning Thomas Crawford, "Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs" (1960).
Dates:
circa 1960.
Typed "Memoranda on Robert Cadell’s Collection of Scott Letters and on the Business Books of Constable & Co. and Cadell & Co".
File
Identifier: MS.803
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) “Memorandum on Robert Cadell's collection of Scott letters, by his grandson, J. H. Stevenson, M.B.E., K.C.” (describing MSS.742-745), 1933 (folio 1), with notes by the Keeper of Manuscripts (folio ii) and James Glen, Glasgow (folio 13);
(ii) "Memorandum on the business books and letters of Constable & Co. and Cadell & Co.” (MSS.319-320, 324-325, 789-802), by the Keeper of Manuscripts, 1934.
Dates:
1933, 1934.
Typescript, 1920, of ‘The Gordons of Craichlaw’ by William MacMath, with corrections and prefatory notes by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.5198
Scope and Contents
A letter about the work from E A Hornel, 1921, and a copy of Macmath's reply have been inserted (folio i).
Dates:
1920-1921.
Typescript, 1991, of a talk on maps delivered by Dorothy, Lady Dunnett at the launch of "The Scot and his Maps" and written by Margaret Wilkes.
File
Identifier: Acc.11696
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of Miss Wilkes`s reply and a note by her, 1998, setting out the background to the Dunnett speech and the occasion of its delivery.
Dates:
1991-1998.
Typescript and associated notes of a paper "The Private Press Movement...Since 1945" presented to Edinburgh Bibliographical Society by Maxwell A Begg.
File
Identifier: Acc.10661
Dates:
1966.
Typescript by Richard Burdon Haldane entitled 'Memorandum of events between 1906-1915'., 1916.
Item
Identifier: MS.5919
Scope and Contents
The typescript is dated April 1916 (folio 2).
On folio i there is a pencilled note, signed E S H[aldane]: 'This was the first draft of what R wrote in other form later but it has some interesting points not later recorded’. Despite this inscription this is a copy of MS.6109, folio 302, a corrected earlier version. It is presumably the text of the memorandum which Haldane circulated among certain friends and acquaintances following his exclusion from the Coalition Cabinet in 1915, giving an...
Dates:
1916.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
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Papers of Richard Burdon Haldane.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.20.2.13-20.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume I, 1532-1600., 1st quarter of 20th century
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.13
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume II, 1600 to 1700., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume III, 1700 to 1800., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald.
Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald: volume IV, 1800 to 1920., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.2.16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The contents consist of 4 volumes of lists, and miscellaneous papers.
The manuscripts were compiled by Lord Guthrie as material for a book projected by him.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (born 1849, died 1920), and Jessie E Macdonald.
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Typescript chronological list of the Senators of the College of Justice from 1532 to 1920, with biographical notes, compiled by Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie and Jessie E Macdonald.
Typescript copy of "Bibliography of George Thomson's Folio Collection of Scottish Airs, with supplementary sections for separate accompaniments, sonatas, & other works, compiled by Thomas Davidson Cook"., [Circa 1922.]
File
Identifier: MS.3104
Scope and Contents
Leaves of a carbon copy containing additional details have been inserted after the corresponding leaf of the main typescript. The Bibliography is preceded by two letters, 1922, of Frank Kidson on Thomson (folio i) and "Notes on the bibliography of George Thomson's Scottish Airs" (folio xiii).
Dates:
[Circa 1922.]
Typescript copy of report, 1920, of expedition of Alexander M Kellas to ascend Kamet in the Himalayas.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9603
Scope and Contents
With presentation note and letter, 1921, to Dr Ernest L Kennaway.
Dates:
1920-1921
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
File
Identifier: MS.1678
Dates:
1714-1745.
Typescript copy of the journal, 1831-1832, of the Reverend James Robert Boyd.
File
Identifier: Acc.7316
Scope and Contents
Kept during a visit to Edinburgh and the Borders.
With notes and comments by the transcriber John S B Pratt Junior, undated
photocopy of a charcoal sketch, circa 1838, of Dr Boyd
biographical note, 1882.
Dates:
1831-1882.
Typescript copy of Thomas Carlyle's remarks on Friedrich Althaus’s article ‘Thomas Carlyle, Eine biographisch-literarische Charakteristik'., 1866.
Item
Identifier: MS.1800
Dates:
1866.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
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Remarks by Thomas Carlyle, 1866, on Friedrich Althaus’s article ‘Thomas Carlyle, Eine biographisch-literarische Charakteristik’, in ‘Unsere Zeit’, 1 July 1866.
Typescript copy, undated, of the full text of the 'Unpublished letters of William Blackwood to Archibald Constable', 1796-1815, with notes, made by Thomas Davidson Cook., 1796-1815.
File
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 138-159
Dates:
1796-1815.
Typescript draft of 'Old friends' by Sir James Matthew Barrie, annotated, apparently for the original production of March 1910., [1910, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.6636
Scope and Contents
Notes discussing the relationship of the drafts in detail, and a provisional stemma, will be found inside the front cover.
Dates:
[1910, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript drafts, undated, of ‘Old friends’ by Sir James Matthew Barrie, with revisions in the hand of the author.
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Typescript drafts of 'Old friends' by Sir James Matthew Barrie, annotated, apparently for the original production of March 1910.
Typescript drafts and notes for 'Exploring Scotland with Tom Weir'., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13059/192
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of chapters, photographs with captions, and possible ‘My month’ articles to be included. Drafts for chapter on ‘Glen Lyon in All Seasons’.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
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Literary and broadcasting papers of Tom Weir.
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Manuscripts, typescripts and drafts relating to the published works of Tom Weir.
Typescript drafts of a paper, ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Psycho-Analysis’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1951-1952.
File
Identifier: MS.50200
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically.1951.Letter, 1951, of James Inglis, Honorary Secretary of the Edinburgh University Psychology Society, to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The letter concerns an invitation to Fairbairn to speak at the Society, where Fairbairn later read his paper ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Psycho-Analysis’. Folio 1.1952.Amended typescript, 1952, of a draft paper, ‘Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of...
Dates:
1951-1952.