Proposals.
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Microfilm of plan de finance: a detailed scheme in two volumes for the reform of ‘les impôts ... sur les divers objets de consommation’ in France, based on ‘la science financière’.
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.
Miscellaneous papers of John Spottiswoode, Advocate., 1698-1718, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of members of the families of Campbell, Ker, Galbraith, and others., 1622-1735, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the 10th and 11th Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1875-1915, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Faculty of Advocates., 1722-1771.
Miscellaneous printed documents of the Minto family, chiefly relating to India., 1792-1812.
Notes and diagrams, undated, of Sir Patrick Geddes concerning his theories on 'Place, work, folk', 'Sex and eugenics', 'History' and other topics., [?1890-?1932.]
There is also a scheme for 'the complete library' by Lewis Mumford, 1927 (folio 180).
Outreach and collaborative production files of 'Glasgow generations'., 1994, undated.
This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.
Papers concerning home defence, chiefly military, with some naval., 1790, 1794-1799, 1802-1804, 1807-1808, 1814, undated.
The papers concern Militia, Fencibles, Sea Fencibles, and Volunteers, with a few papers about the Regular Army, and many proposals of a general kind for the defence of the country.
Papers concerning Ireland, the Isle of Man, and transportation of convicts, and letters of Sir John Dalrymple to Henry Dundas., 1788-1809, undated.
The contents include papers concerning the following: (i) Ireland, 1793-1809. Traitors; the Union (folio 1); (ii) Isle of Man, 1788, 1804, including proposals to relax Excise regulations (folio 23); (iii) Transportation of convicts, 1789, 1793, undated. Their landing in Newfoundland, principles, procedure (folio 43); (iv) Letters of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet, of Cousland, to Dundas (1st Viscount Melville), 1791-1807, undated (folio 97).
Papers concerning the reorganisation of University Hall, Edinburgh., 1928-1949.
Papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto on proposed Scottish Reform Act Amendment-Bills., 1835, 1852.
Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale concerning the Court of Session., 1721-1754, undated.
Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1437-1912, undated.
Papers of the Hays of Yester concerning legal and miscellaneous estate and local affairs., 1660-[circa 1834].
Papers relating chiefly to the election of Scottish Representative Peers.
Some letters to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville), 1783-1807, unconnected with election, possibly indicate that these are part of the Melville papers. The papers consist of minutes of elections, lists of peers and their votes, protests, excerpts from ancient records, proposals as to methods of electing, and other papers.
‘Papers relating to a Bank of Credit upon Land-Security, proposed to the Parliament of Scotland' Edinburgh, 1693) by Dr Hugh Chamberlen, the economist and physician, a printed pamphlet, accompanied by two manuscript objections to the proposal, 1693, separately numbered 2 and 3., 1693.
Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1719-1760, undated.
Printed pamphlet by Sir Gilbert Elliot 2nd Baronet, Lord Minto, entitled ‘Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh’, [1752], with manuscript alterations and additions possibly in the hand of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet.
The proposals concern the need for certain public buildings, including those which eventually became Register House, the Signet Library, the Court of Session, and the North Bridge.
Printed papers relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus., 1830-1859.
Printed material consisting of proposed heads of a bill (folio 1) and the subsequent act (folio 9) relating to the making and maintenance of roads in Angus, 1830-1831; Patrick Chalmers’ annotated copy (and another) of the 'Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill, 1836' (folio 20); 'A Bill for the better management of Highways in England', 1859 (folio 26).
Proposal for BBC2 early afternoon lecture series ‘It happened here’., 1997.
On British history focusing on the local areas where great historical events took place.