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Catalogues.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Enumerations of items, usually arranged systematically, with descriptive details; may be in book or pamphlet form, on cards, or online. (AAT) This term in the NLS published catalogues was used only for lists of books. Lists of other objects were indexed under the name of the object (e.g. pictures). General household inventories were indexed under 'Plenishing' (NLS).

Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of John Gilmour

 Fonds
Identifier: MI.5/28
Dates: 1938-2006
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of John Grant, bookseller.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9751
Dates: circa 1889-1947.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of John Purves chiefly on South African literature., [Circa 1905-circa 1926], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15885
Scope and Contents The manuscript includes: (i) Typescripts of articles, 1907-1914, of John Purves on English and Italian literature which were published in various South African periodicals (folio 28); (ii) Catalogue of exhibits for the Shakespeare Tercentenary Exhibition, Pretoria, 1916 (folio 95); (iii) Typescript notes, ‘Early school legislation of Cape Colony’ (folio 127); (iv) Copy of an article by Olga Racster, 'Old Cape theatres', published in ‘The Cape times’ (folio 142); (v) Corrected typescript of...
Dates: [Circa 1905-circa 1926], undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947. / Notes of John Purves. / Miscellaneous notes of John Purves.

Papers of Sir James Lawton Wingate, President of the Royal Society of Arts, including sketchbooks, annotated catalogues of paintings, photographs of paintings and sketches, and personal and family photographs.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.218
Dates: Circa 1868-1922.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the family of Gordon of Halmyre and Gordonstoun, including correspondence, catalogues of books, commissions, financial papers and legal papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4642/1-12
Dates: Majority of material found within 1630, [?1743]-1885, 1911, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the Gordon family of Halmyre and Gordonstoun.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.115- is now Acc.4642.
Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the Henderson Memorial Library of Books on America.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11462
Dates: circa 1940-1959.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.164- is now Acc.5058.
Dates: 19th century-20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Papers relating to the poetry magazine 'Akros' and its supplement 'Knowe'., 1965-1982.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10094/34-37
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and essays, and includes critical work on Hugh MacDiamrid.

Dates: 1965-1982.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers of Duncan Glen, including research materials relating to Hugh MacDiarmid.

Personal and miscellaneous papers of Andrew Stuart., 1746-1791.

 File
Identifier: MS.8325
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1746-1759, concerning Andrew Stuart's legal training, including his contract of apprenticeship, and his admission to the Society of Writers to the Signet (folio 1);(ii) Inventories, 1767-1787, of personal and household possessions (folio 12).(iii) Catalogues and lists of books, 1771-1783 (folio 54).(iv) Accounts of household expenses, 1775-1777 (folio 92).(v) Accounts of horse and carriage...
Dates: 1746-1791.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance. / Papers of Andrew Stuart, Writer to the Signet, of Craigthorn and Castlemilk, second son of Archibald Stuart of Torrance.

Personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie., 1736-1823, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10229/45-132
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1736-1823, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.

Photocopies of a letter, 1870, of R W Emerson to the President of Harvard.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7928
Scope and Contents

Concerning Thomas Carlyle`s intended bequest of books to Harvard College.

With a catalogue, undated, of the library in the Land of Mary Aitken.

Dates: 1870 and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50273-50276
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of correspondence of and concerning Scots in Jamaica, including letters of the Earl of Balcarres, the Fyffe family and other Scots in Jamaica.

Typewritten lists concenring materials of Scottish interest in the National Library of Jamaica, formerly the West India Reference Library.

Typewritten list of Scottish place names in Jamaica.

Dates: 1699; 1735-1846.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopies of the catalogue of the Leadhills Library and two connected letters.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7903
Dates: 1761-1767.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopies of three sale catalogues of paintings and drawings by Thomas Stothard.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12161
Dates: 1834-1835, 1845.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopies of volumes 2 and 3 of catalogue of naval books in the library of Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4105
Dates: 20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopy of a catalogue of the Telford Library, Langholm, compiled by J Ronald Martin.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6217
Dates: 1969.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopy of the catalogue of the contents of the Episcopal Safe in the Episcopal Theological College, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5853
Dates: 1905.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photocopy of typescript of "Erik Chisholm: Provisional Catalogue of Works", by Morag Chisholm.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11598
Dates: 1998.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photographs and typescript copies of letters of Sir Walter Scott, collected by Sir Herbert Grierson for the centenary edition of Scott's letters.

 File
Identifier: MS.1846
Scope and Contents

Some of the letters have not been printed.

At the end are catalogues of letters of Sir Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and other correspondents, 1927, and to his brother Thomas and the latter's wife, undated.

Dates: 1796-1828, 1927, undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photographs of catalogue of books belonging to Daniel Stewart.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3540
Dates: 1811.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'Press catalogue of the Library at Newbattle Abbey'., 1875-1876.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5826
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1875-1876.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey. / Catalogues of the libraries of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian, at Newbattle Abbey and in London.

'Press Catalogue of the Manuscripts, etc., in the Library of the University of Glasgow, October, 1828', in the hand of William James Duncan, Manager of the National Bank of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3113
Dates: 1828.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

"Press Catalogue [of] Tyninghame Library Alphabetically Arranged".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9677
Scope and Contents

Paper watermarked 1820.

Dates: circa 1820.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

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