Proposals.
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
Administrative correspondence and other materials of Ian Rankin relating to his ‘Lazarus’ television serial project., 1999-2001.
Copies of correspondence, and papers of and concerning Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux, chiefly on military subjects., 1775-1809, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Copies of correspondence, 1775-1786, between Charles Grant and the Comte de Langeron concerning Grant's military career (folio 1); (ii) Papers, chiefly printed, concerning the Écoles Royales Militaires, 1777-1786, undated (folio 11); (iii) Miscellaneous papers on military and maritime subjects, 1779-1809, undated (folio 22).
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'A great reckonin', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and copies of letters., 1992-2001, undated.
This play was first performed at Perth Theatre in 2000.
Originally entitled ‘Another Orpheus’.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Beatrice', by Ian Brown, containing typescript draft and typescript project proposal., Circa 1989, undated.
This play was first performed by the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company at the Traverse Theatre in 1989.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Wasting reality', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and some stray draft pages., Circa 1992, undated.
This play was first performed at Perth Theatre in 1992.
Originally entitled ‘The house that Jack built’.
Correspondence and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle., 1883-1888, undated.
The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Hugh Pattison Macmillan, chiefly relating to proposals for a National Library for Scotland., 1914-1924.
Correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan chiefly concerning the establishment of a National Library for Scotland., 1922-1934.
Correspondence and papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to the voyageurs., 1884-1886.
The 4th Earl of Minto's main preoccupations were with the raising of a voyageur force for service in Egypt, the employment of Canadian forces in the imperial service, and the rebellion of Louis Riel in the North-West in which he was personally involved.
Correspondence and papers on various actual and projected lead or copper mines in Scotland., 1751-1774.
With letters and reports on the lead mines of Islay, 1771-1785.
Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc., 1684-1910, undated.
Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc., 1684-1847.
Estate memoranda, including inventories of plenishing, inventories of writs, statements of financial affairs, recommendations for improvements, etc., 1851-1910, undated.
File, 'The Attic Archive. Proposal for exhibition of outsider art at Duff House 1999'., 1999.
The box is covered in tartan.
Film proposal for ‘In the Wake of Ulysses’., 1997.
On the archaeological findings in areas visited by Odysseus on his travels.
General and East Lothian papers., 1541-1891, undated.
Household accounts of the Earl of Angus, and other miscellaneous papers., 1608, 18th century-19th century.
Legal notes on various matters of Civil and Scots law, including some by Lord Milton., 17th century-18th century.
The more substantial items are: suggestions for amending the law, 1752 (folio 12), proposals for publishing the Civil Law (folio 15), notes on actions (folio 57; cf. MS.17820), a summary of Stair's ‘Institutions’ (folio 69), a copy of 'De jure praelationis Nobilium Scotiae ... 1606' (see Adv.MS.33.7.5) with various lists of peers down to 1707 and of representative peers down to 1739 (folio 86), and an alphabetical list of tailzies from 1685 to 1754 (folio 131).
Letter of Admiral the Viscount Keith to the 1st Viscount Melville concerning two enclosed schemes, involving the use of steam, for attacking French ships in Boulogne harbour., 29 August 1804.
Letters and miscellaneous papers of James Hyman Singer, ‘Burns Singer’., 1948-[circa 1970], undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Letters of Singer, 1948-1964, undated (folio 1). They include a letter to Marguerite Caetani, 1952, explaining why he used the name 'Burns Singer' (folio 4), and a letter to the publisher Fredric Warburg, ?1956, with proposals for two books (folio 11). (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1957-circa 1970, undated (folio 33). A typescript list of works by Singer is included (folio 41).
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Haygarth to Haynes., 1808-1928.
Manuscripts of proposals of Robert Mein for the removal of night-soil, etc., from lands, i.e. tall tenement buildings, as published in his ‘City cleaned and country improven’., 1735-1737, 1751.
Miscellaneous notes and other papers, including a business journal of John Spottiswoode, Keeper of the Advocates' Library., 1658-1712, undated.
Miscellaneous papers, 1962-1989, including correspondence concerning a tombstone for Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, 1979., 1962-1989.
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.