Annotations.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes added as comment or explanation, such as those accompanying an entry in a bibliography, reading list, or catalogue intended to describe, explain, or evaluate the publication referred to.
Found in 581 Collections and/or Records:
Printed catalogue, [?1814], of Kelso Library with manuscript additions to 1826.
File
Identifier: MS.14241
Scope and Contents
A list of the proprietors of the Library in February 1827 has been added (folio 1).
Dates:
[?1814]-1827.
Printed copy, annotated by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, of ‘Inquiry into the secondary causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity’ (Edinburgh, 1786)., [1786, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25391
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...
Dates:
[1786, or after.]
Printed copy of Cornelius Van Eck, "Principia Juris Civilis" (1756), with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7836
Dates:
1756.
Printed copy of ‘Coronel and the Falkland Islands’ by A Neville Hilditch (1915), with marginal notes by Robert Kirk Dickson and an annotated envelope., 1915.
File
Identifier: MS.13579
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From the Fonds:
The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...
Dates:
1915.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
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Papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson.
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Personal and naval papers of Robert Kirk Dickson.
Printed copy of Justinius, "Institutes" (1678), with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7835
Dates:
1678.
Printed copy of Pablo Neruda, 'Estravagario' (Buenos Aires, 1969), annotated by Alastair Reid., [1969, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27449
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.
Dates:
[1969, or after.]
Printed copy of Pablo Neruda, ‘Plenos Poderes’ (Buenos Aires, 1962), annotated by Alastair Reid., [1962, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.27451
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.
Dates:
[1962, or after.]
Printed copy of the song, 'Tranent Muir' by Sir Walter Scott, interleaved with anonymous explanatory notes and annotations, with an endorsement by Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.23056
Scope and Contents
The endorsement by Sir Walter Scott is as follows, 'Tranent Muir & Notes to be taken in page 189'.
Dates:
[1791, or after.]
Printed copy of 'Toom Byres' by Robert McLellan., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.26334
Scope and Contents
This published version was used in a production of the play by Perth Theatre, and is annotated for the actor playing the part of Sir Andrew Ker.
Dates:
1936.
Printed edition of the metrical Psalms (Edinburgh, 1615), (Aldis 480.5), with contemporary manuscript additions of musical parts for the Psalms, probably by Edward Millar.
File
Identifier: Acc.12805
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and papers on the item, 1913-1962.
Dates:
1615.
Printed legal papers, annotated by the 1st Earl of Minto, concerning proceedings against the Maharaja Nand Kumar., [1787-1788.]
File
Identifier: MS.11202
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates:
[1787-1788.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Political correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto's management of the impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey, formerly chief Justice of Bengal, for his conduct of the trial of the Maharaja Nand Kumar.
Printed list of registered voters for Roxburghshire, with manuscript notes showing how each voted., 1868.
Item
Identifier: MS.8119
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover the period from 1750 to 1945, but the bulk of the collection belongs to the lifetime of Sir George Henry Scott-Douglas, 4th Baronet, who succeeded his father as a minor in 1836 and died in 1885. During his minority and absences abroad with the army, his affairs were in the hands of a trustee, but after his return in 1851, Sir George took a keen interest in the running of his estates, as is evident from the long series of detailed factory accounts and correspondence....
Dates:
1868.
Printed map of Persia, Afghanistan, and Buluchistan (60 miles to an inch), with later manuscript additions showing proposed railway lines., 1904.
Item
Identifier: MS.13453 [Map Library]
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1904.
Printed map of Sikkim, 1906, with manuscript annotations and markings to show the routes taken by Sir Hugh McPherson in 1908 and 1911, and by Duncan H McPherson in 1942., 1906-1911, 1942.
Item
Identifier: MS.19616 [Map.s.162.30]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
From 1891 to 1925, Sir Hugh was in the Indian Civil Service, first in Bengal and from 1912 in Bihar and Orissa. The papers concern his career but also reflect his interest in walking and climbing in the Himalayas, an interest shared by his son.
Dates:
1906-1911, 1942.
Printed page proofs, and drafts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’ by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, with notes on Lord Hailes work., [1776, or before], [1779, or before], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25360
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Printed page proofs of parts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volume I, with marginalia in the hands of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Lord Hailes (folio 1); (ii) Drafts of parts of the ‘Annals of Scotland’, volumes I and II, with notes by Samuel Johnson (folio 22); (iii) Notes by William Robertson and another on Lord Hailes' work, undated (folio 116).
Dates:
[1776, or before], [1779, or before], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Historical papers: Scotland and Great Britain of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Material for the ‘Annals of Scotland’ volumes I and II (Edinburgh, 1776 and 1779) by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Printed pages of ‘Fugitive Pieces’, ‘Poems on Various Occasions’, 'Hours of Idleness' and ‘Poems, Original and Translated’, by Lord Byron, with notes, revisions and additions by Henry Buxton Forman., 1884-1896.
File
Identifier: MS.43399
Scope and Contents
The pages here are of poems contained in the first four publications of Lord Byron. They have been heavily annotated by Henry Buxton Forman.Henry Buxton Forman was a well-known bibliographer and, it was later discovered, forger. He and John Murray [III] had agreed that he would work on a new edition of the works of Byron for Murray in the 1884. This never came to fruition, but the proofs here are the result of the start of that work and was sent to John Murray [IV] in 1896....
Dates:
1884-1896.
Printed papers in Archibald William 13th Earl of Eglinton’s claim to the Earldom of Winton., 1840.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.27(i-ii)
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Dates:
1840.
Printed papers relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus., 1830-1859.
File
Identifier: MS.19588
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1830-1859.
Printed 'Particulars and Plan of the Fine Residential and Sporting Estate of Bowland situated in the Parish of Stow and Counties of Midlothian and Selkirk', including a map and a few manuscript annotations.
File
Identifier: MS.13600
Dates:
1889.
Printed pedigrees, with annotations, of the Ashburner, Vincent and Boddington, and Sparks and Tickell families., 1872-1877.
File
Identifier: MS.20398
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1872-1877.
Printed proof of ‘An anthology of Scotland’, prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, with manuscript corrections and notes., 1908.
File
Identifier: MS.355B
Dates:
1908.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Author's manuscript and printed proof of ‘An anthology of Scottish history’ from 1093 to 1746, being a list of characters, etc., prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, for the pageant given at the Scottish National Exhibition, 1908.
Printed Registers of Voters, County Bute, annotated by Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1868-1884.
Item
Identifier: MS.25644
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1868-1884.
Producer`s marked copy of R MacKelvie Black, "For Faith and Freedom: a Drama of Covenanting Days".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10048
Dates:
early 20th century.
Production files of 'Victorian values' by Donald Campbell., 1986, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/180-184
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes material concerning productions, administration and publicity.
Dates:
1986, undated.
Programme and annotated prompt copy of Frederic Mohr`s play "The Admiral Jones", as produced by the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association.
File
Identifier: Acc.11004
Dates:
1993.