Pamphlets.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Complete, nonperiodical printed works generally of fewer than 80 pages, often with a paper cover, sometimes short treatises on arguments or topics of current interest. For smaller printed works, of one sheet folded and not stitched or bound, use ""leaflets"" .
Found in 289 Collections and/or Records:
Journal and scrapbook of John Francis Campbell combined, kept mainly during his visit to Paris at the time of the Siege in 1871, and while travelling round the west coast of Scotland which is described in letters to his family in August and September 1871., 1870-1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.6
Scope and Contents
Other items of interest in the volume include material regarding the marriage of Lord Lorne and Princess Louise on 21 March 1871, and on traction engines.
There are two printed pamphlets by Campbell, ‘On Current British Mythology and Oral Traditions’ and ‘Notes on Glacial Phenomena of the Hebrides’.
Dates:
1870-1871.
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.
Journal and scrapbook of John Francis Campbell in which he mainly describes his travels in Ireland from July to October 1872., 1872.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.7
Scope and Contents
The journal is illustrated with watercolour and pencil sketches, photographs and rock-rubbings. Throughout, Campbell stresses the geological aspects of the places visited, particularly with regard to glaciation, and at the end of the volume his printed pamphlet ‘On the Glaciation of Ireland’ is inserted. There are also several letters to Campbell from various correspondents, 1872, and at the beginning of the volume several press cuttings relating to Gaelic literature and the Ossianic...
Dates:
1872.
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.
Journal and sketchbook of John Francis Campbell recording his travels and interests., 1879-1880.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.5.6
Scope and Contents
The volume falls roughly into two sections:(i) Experiments in and notes on Thermography, a subject in which Campbell became increasingly interested towards the end of his life.As a result of his experiments with the sun`s rays, he published several pamphlets, two of which are included in this volume:‘Time Scales Horizontal and Vertical’ (folio 169) and “Campbell`s Registering Sun-Dial” (folio 152). There are also notes, diagrams and cuttings relating to...
Dates:
1879-1880.
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.
Journal of John Francis Campbell, kept while travelling in Norway, Russia and Italy, 1873-1874, and illustrated with a number of photographs and watercolours., 1873-1874.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.4.8
Scope and Contents
Campbell’s description of his visit to Italy dwells particularly on Mount Vesuvius and on the works of art he saw in Rome and Florence.Near the beginning of the volume he discusses Gaelic literature and meteorology with accompanying diagrams and cuttings.A little correspondence for 1874 and several printed items including copies of Campbell’s ‘On the Glaciation of Ireland’ (folio 3) and ‘About Polar Glaciation’ (folio 28) have been inserted at the front of the...
Dates:
1873-1874.
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.
Journal of John Francis Campbell written while he was travelling in the West of Scotland collecting Gaelic folklore., 1870-1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.2.2
Scope and Contents
The volume contains many Highland tales which Campbell has taken down in English in note-form. There are only one or two he has written in Gaelic.Campbell has illustrated the journal with a few watercolour sketches of Scottish Scenes (folios 10-12, 85, 87 verso, 117 verso, 158 verso-159, 166 verso, 169 verso, 283) and some miscellaneous insertions have been made throughout the volume:(i) A printed pamphlet ‘On Prehistoric Remains in the Neighbourhood of the Crinan...
Dates:
1870-1871.
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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Manuscripts, proofs and editorial commentary, with some associated correspondence, papers and notes, of John Francis Campbell and his team of collectors for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1859-1862, and of the later tale collection fieldwork by Campbell himself, 1870-1871.
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Collections of Tales for the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ project, with related correspondence and other papers.
Leaflets and reports collected by Ian Rankin as research for his novel ‘Let It Bleed’; with a synopses of the novel, and correspondence concerning cover proofs., 1995-1997.
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Identifier: MS.50363
Dates:
1995-1997.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, working papers, and published extracts of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, and working papers of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the police procedural novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts of 'Let It Bleed' by Ian Rankin; with related working papers and promotional materials.
Leaflets, pamphlets and periodicals of Tom H Gibson., 1914-1966, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6058 Box 4(1)-(3)
Letter, 1950, of Sir William Craigie to David D Murison.
File
Identifier: Acc.7498
Scope and Contents
Concerning philological matters.
With seven documents, 1938-1973, concerning the Scottish National Party.
Dates:
1938-1973.
Letters of Allan Barns-Graham to R E Muirhead on Scottish Home Rule.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14277
Scope and Contents
With Christmas card from Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham to Muirhead, 1925.
Dates:
1920-1925.
Letters of and to John Francis Campbell relating to thermography., 1858-1880.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.7.7
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include many notable 19th-century men of science, such as the astronomers Sir James South, Sir George B Airy and William Lassell, natural philosophers John Tyndall and Sir David Brewster, Sir Henry E Roscoe, the chemist, and George M Whipple, the physicist. There are also several letters of and to the 8th Duke of Argyll.A few printed items have been bound in with the letters: Campbell`s pamphlet ‘On a New Self-Registering Sun-Dial’ (London, 1857) (folio 9), and...
Dates:
1858-1880.
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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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Letters of James Ballantyne to John Murray II, with related papers., 1806-1808.
File
Identifier: MS.40042
Scope and Contents
The letters concern the business relations between Murray and Ballantyne and their associates. Some of the letters include details of business accounts. The letters are arranged chronologically :1806April: folios 1-2;November: folios 3-8. 1807January: folios 9-12;February: folios 13-14; May: folios 15-17;June: folios 18-23;July: folios 24-27;August: folios...
Dates:
1806-1808.
Letters of William Auld to Steuart Campbell, with poems and enclosures; also some Esperanto books, pamphlets and ephemera.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14012
Dates:
Circa 1978-1989.
Letters, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings relating to Lord Mark Kerr., Circa 1871.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/309
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
Circa 1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Miscellaneous Papers of the Forbes Family.
Letters, press cuttings, photographs and pamphlets concerning Tibbie Shiels.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9850
Dates:
circa 1878-1882.
Letters relating to the Mar Peerage Case., 1870-1871.
File
Identifier: MS.312
Scope and Contents
The letters are chiefly addressed to John Gough Nichols, editor of ‘The Herald and Genealogist’, by the Reverend Thomas Agar Holland, R R Stodart, Lyon Office, Edinburgh, the Earl of Mar, and Alexander Sinclair, Edinburgh. There are also printed pamphlets on the subject, some by Sinclair, with his manuscript corrections.
Dates:
1870-1871.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Alexander, W, to Alison, C., 1820-1917.
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Identifier: MS.40014
Scope and Contents
The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent.Alexander, W C.Letters, 1852, of W Alexander to John Murray III. Folios 1-4.Alexander, William (fl 1820).Letter, 1820, of William Alexander to John Murray II. Folios 5-6.Alexander, William (1824-1911).Letters, 1876-1909 and undated, of William Alexander to John Murray III, to John Murray IV and to Hallam Murray.1876-1879: folios 7-51;...
Dates:
1820-1917.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Bertie to Bettany, G., 1830-1909.
File
Identifier: MS.40092
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, where required, by date under each name.Bertie, Georgina, 1856: folios 1-3;Bertin, Louis-Emile, 1898: folio 4;Bertram, James, 1863-1882: folios 5-21;Besant, Walter, 1883-1891: folios 22-36:includes letter, 1891, of Walter Besant to George Grove: folios 33-34;letter, 1891, of George Armstrong to John Murray III: folios 35-36;Beshiktash,...
Dates:
1830-1909.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Fletcher, E. to Fonnereau., 1813-1928.
File
Identifier: MS.40412
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Fletcher, Ernest.Letter, 1901, of Ernest Fletcher to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Fletcher, John Devonald.Letter, 1904, of John Devonald Fletcher to John Murray IV. Folio 3.Fletcher, Joseph Smith.Letters, 1907 and 1908, of Joseph Smith Fletcher to John Murray IV. Folios 4-11.Fletcher, Josiah.Letters, 1840 and...
Dates:
1813-1928.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Gaull to Geikie., 1835-1912.
File
Identifier: MS.40442
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Gaull, P.Letter, 1894, of P Gaull to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Gaussen, Alice Cecilia Caroline.Letters, 1905, of Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen to John Murray IV. Folios 3-5.Gavioli, Luigi.Letter, 1900, of Luigi Gavioli to John Murray IV. Folio 6.Gawapy, Sydney.Letter, 1909, of Sydney Gawapy to John Murray...
Dates:
1835-1912.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Staples to Starke., 1814-1914.
File
Identifier: MS.41151
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Staples, John.Letter, 1878, of Sir John Staples to John Murray III. Folios 1-2.Staples, S. S.Letter, 1914, of S S Staples to John Murray IV. Folio 3.Stapleton, Augustus Granville.Letters, 1834, 1857, 1865-1867, 1869 and 1871-1872, of Augustus Granville Stapleton to John Murray II and John Murray III. Folios 4-72.Folios...
Dates:
1814-1914.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames Brodrick, T. to Brookes., 1817-1911.
File
Identifier: MS.40153
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, where required, by date under each name.Brodrick, Thomas, 1897: folios 1-8;Brodrick, William, 1858-1865: folios 9-14;Brodrill, A.A., 1894: folios 15-16;Brogden, Miss, 1870: folios 17-18;Brogden, James, 1842-1864: folios 19-48:includes letter, 1864, of Ernestine Brogden to John Murray III: folios 45-46;letter, 1864, of James Ernest Brogden to...
Dates:
1817-1911.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Brickdale to Brighton., 1824-1924.
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Identifier: MS.40147
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, where required, by date under each name. A further correspondent has been added to the end of this sequence.Brickdale, Charles, 1893-1913: folios 1-31;Brickdale, Eleanor, 1898: folios 32-36;Bridell, E.J., 1846: folios 37-38;Bridges, Frances, 1882-1889: folios 39-55;Bridges, George, 1827-c1851: folios 56-59: includes letter, [c1851], of George Bridges to...
Dates:
1824-1924.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Lawley to Lawrence, R., 1827-1928.
File
Identifier: MS.40675
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Lawley, Annie Allen.Letters, 1913, of Annie Allen Lawley to John Murray IV. Folios 1-4.Lawley, Francis Charles.Letters, 1864, 1868, 1870, 1883, 1894 and 1896, of Hon. Francis Charles Lawley to John Murray III and John Murray IV. Folios 5-23.Lawley, Georgiana Emily.Letters, 1883, of Georgiana Emily Lawley to John Murray III. Folios...
Dates:
1827-1928.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Whitaker, H. to Whitaker, T., 1770-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.41264
Scope and Contents
The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent.Whitaker, H.A.Letters, August 1893, of H.A. Whitaker, 42 Old Broad Street, London, to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Whitaker, John.Letters, 1770, 1773-1775, of John Whitaker to John Murray I. The letters probably concern John Murray as bookseller, and as publisher of works by Whitaker and as his confidant. Folios 3-28.Whitaker, Joseph.Letter, 18 December...
Dates:
1770-1893.