Broadsides. Notices.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Sizeable single-sheet notices or advertisements printed on one or both sides, often chiefly textual rather than pictorial, and printed to be read unfolded. For the format in which the sheet is not folded, use ""broadsheet (format)""For folded sheets having printed matter that generally does not cross the folds, use ""folders (printed matter)"" .
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication., 1823-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.4890
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Manuscript of two poems by Robert Brown Cunnynghame entitled “Tales o' the daft days. The mistress's tale or The hunt the gowk” and “Tale third. The boarding school Miss's tale or Bailie Blair's courtship”. These are apparently unpublished continuations of the three parts of “Tales o' the daft days” published in “Blackwood's Magazine”, November and December 1822, and March 1823. (Folio 1.)(ii) Manuscript, 1823, of an apparently...
Dates:
1823-1840.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Anonymous manuscripts and proofs of works offered to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers, for publication.
Correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Minto concerning their commands in the Roxburgh Regiment, Volunteer Infantry and the 1st Regiment, Roxburghshire Local Militia respectively., 1804-1819.
File
Identifier: MS.13367
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:
1804-1819.
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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Papers concerning the Elliot family of Minto relating to local affairs.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the militia and volunteers in Roxburghshire.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Minto concerning their commands in the Roxburgh Regiment, Volunteer Infantry and the 1st Regiment, Roxburghshire Local Militia respectively.
Four letters of the Reverend Dr Hew Scott, author of ‘Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae’, with some notes for that work., 1840-1841, 1856, 1870.
File
Identifier: MS.1758, folios 37-55
Miscellaneous papers of and relating to Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1855-1916, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25652
Scope and Contents
The papers include Sir Charles Dalrymple's account of Lady Alice Mary Dalrymple's death in 1884 and drafts for his Memorial Service at Newcraighall Church in 1916. There is also miscellaneous verse, drawings, and printed notices.
Dates:
1855-1916, undated.
Notes, drafts of speeches, printed notices and other political papers of and concerning Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1942-1977, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27203
Scope and Contents
The papers include material on the Kelvingrove elections (1945, 1950) and the Kinross election (1964) at which Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’ stood as a candidate.
Dates:
1942-1977, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, (1892-1978), the author 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Miscellaneous papers of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
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Political papers of and concerning Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'.
Papers concerning the Jacobite rebellion, collected by John Blair, ‘Vol. I’., 1715-1716, 1745-1747.
File
Identifier: MS.487
Scope and Contents
Includes papers, manuscript and printed, relating to the election of the Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh by a poll vote, 1746 (folios 1-11, 29); excerpts from printed sources relating to the trial of Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1747 (folios 14-24, 29); ‘Particulars of 1715 and 1716 from Rae, Patten, and Tindal’ (folio 27); similar ‘Particulars’ relating to 1745 and 1746, from printed sources (folio 28 verso); printed pamphlets and broadsides relating to the...
Dates:
1715-1716, 1745-1747.
Political papers of and concerning Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1942-1978, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27203-27204
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers consist chiefly of Christopher Murray Grieve’s literary papers, but there is also material relating to his family and affairs.
Dates:
1942-1978, undated.
Printed election 'squibs' and posters. , 1837-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.13365
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:
1837-1841.