Abstracts. Summaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 205 Collections and/or Records:
17th-century extracts and transcripts, in the hand of Sir James Balfour, of chartularies and other historical works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.9
Scope and Contents
17th-century manuscript written and compiled by Sir James Balfour containing the following works:1. Copy by Sir James Balfour of George Marjorybanks, 'Annals of Scotland, 1514-94'. Folios 6r-23r.A history of Scotland in the form of annals written in Scots, originally written in the late 16th century by George Marjoribanks, burgess of Edinburgh. The location of the original manuscript from which Balfour made his copy is unknown. The work is separated into...
Dates:
17th century.
Abstract, 1817, of will of 1807 and codicil of 1813 of George William Leslie, 13th Earl of Rothes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9129
Dates:
1817.
Abstract in a small notebook of the ‘State of expence [sic] and funds for the Perthsire election, April and May 1834’., 1834.
Item
Identifier: MS.16177
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The general elections of 1812, 1831 and 1832, and the by-election of 1834, are particularly well documented in this series.
Dates:
1834.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence, papers, legal and financial documents, canvass records and printed ephemera concerning elections and politics in the County of Perth parliamentary constituency involving Thomas Graham (M.P. from 1794 to 1807) and Robert Graham (Whig/Liberal campaign manager, 1831-1832, and parliamentary candidate, 1834).
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Canvass books and related papers.
Abstract of accounts of all the tenants, 1742-1754, and accounts concerning Aberlady, 1743-1756., 1742-1756.
Item
Identifier: MS.17722
Scope and Contents
The abstract begins on folio 1, and accounts concerning Aberlady begin on folio 1 inverted.
Dates:
1742-1756.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore,
Abstract of accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates., 1829-1840.
File
Identifier: F.R.43d
Scope and Contents
Printed abstracts of the Treasurer's accounts [1829-1840], manuscript abstracts, 1840-1841, and notes of the Treasurer, 1841, 1842 and 1843 stating that no abstract of account will be circulated.
Dates:
1829-1840.
Abstract of deed of covenant of Edward Ellice., 1858.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12740
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1858.
Abstract of Garrison Orders and General Orders, 3 June 1769-19 July 1771, issued by Lieutenant Colonel (later General Sir Robert) Boyd, Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar., 1769-1771.
File
Identifier: MS.7120
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...
Dates:
1769-1771.
Abstract of letters received by Sir Charles Elliot from the Admiralty., 1864-1866.
Item
Identifier: MS.21226
Scope and Contents
The copies of the letters have been removed from the letter book at an unknown date.
Dates:
1864-1866.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot Murray Kynynmounds, Earls of Minto, of related families, and of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, whose career was associated with that of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Papers and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Charles G J B Elliot, Admiral of the Fleet.
Abstract of log of HMS Wellesley., 1837-1838.
Item
Identifier: Dep.353/10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates:
1837-1838.
"Abstract of Lord Cornwallis's letters to Mr. Dundas", i.e., of the letters in MS.3385., 1790-1794.
Item
Identifier: MS.3388
Dates:
1790-1794.
Abstract of standing orders issued to the squadron employed on the East India and China station by Rear Admiral Sir Charles J Austen, Admiral Sire George R Lambert, and Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Fleetwood B R Pellew., 1851-1856.
File
Identifier: MS.21223
Scope and Contents
The orders have been removed at an unknown date.
Dates:
1851-1856.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot Murray Kynynmounds, Earls of Minto, of related families, and of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, whose career was associated with that of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Papers and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Charles G J B Elliot, Admiral of the Fleet.
Abstract of the account of the Sheriff Depute of Selkirkshire for the year ending Whitsuntide., 1824.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.29
Dates:
1824.
Abstract of the account of the Sheriff Depute of Selkirkshire for the year ending Whitsuntide., 1825.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.30
Scope and Contents
With an autograph note of Sir Walter Scott, 27 January [1827, error for] 1826.
Dates:
1825.
'Abstract of the Laws and Regulations ... and of the rules and orders ... from 1764 to 1778. Extracted from the Records & Sederunt Book of the Society', with subsequent laws, 1778-1781, rolls, etc., 1781, and later additions., 1764-1781.
File
Identifier: MS.2000
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
With these papers were some of David Herd (see MSS.1924-1928).
Dates:
1764-1781.
Abstract of the public account of Selkirkshire for the year ending Whitsunday., 1829.
Item
Identifier: Ch.B.35
Dates:
1829.
Abstracts and copies of correspondence of William Elliot concerning disturbances in Counties Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim, Cavan and Limerick., 1806-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.12923
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates:
1806-1807.
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 chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807.
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.53.3.1-53.3.13
Dates:
16th century-1902.
Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of articles on aspects of psychiatry by various authors., 1939.
File
Identifier: MS.50216
Scope and Contents
The final version of each of the abstracts was published in the ‘International Journal of Psycho-Analysis’, July 1940.Typescript, 1939, of an abstract by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of ‘Diagnosis and Prognosis in Psychiatry’, by Jules H Masserman and Hugh T Carmichael. Folios 1-3.Typescript, 1939, of an abstract by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of ‘The Nineteenth Maudsley Lecture: A Revaluation of Psychiatry’, by David Kennedy Henderson. Folios 4-5....
Dates:
1939.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own writings and those of other authors.
Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own articles and papers., 1935-1939, 1953.
File
Identifier: MS.50215
Scope and Contents
The abstracts are arranged chronologically.1935.‘The Sociological Significance of Communism in the Light of Psycho-Analysis’.Typescript, 1935, of an abstract by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of ‘The Sociological Significance of Communism in the Light of Psycho-Analysis’, by Fairbairn. The abstract would appear not to have been published. Folios 1-2. 1938.‘The Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’.Typescript, 1938, of...
Dates:
1935-1939, 1953.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Lectures and articles of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own writings and those of other authors.
Abstracts by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own writings and those of other authors., 1935-1953.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50215-50216
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A comprehensive collection of the writings of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn including published and unpublished articles, lectures and reviews.
Dates:
1935-1953.
Abstracts from contracts, accounts, reports and letters., 1845-1874.
File
Identifier: Acc.3521/51
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Including legal and financial papers.
Dates:
1845-1874.
Abstracts of accounts for Balgowan and Lynedoch and (from 1844) the Redgorton and Bertha Park estates, arranged in crop years., 1841-1855.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16312-16325
Scope and Contents
All but MS.16325 are uniformly bound, and with contents lists.
Dates:
1841-1855.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Estate, political and some personal correspondence and papers, travel letters and journals, and military papers, of General Sir Thomas Graham of Balgowan and Lynedoch (1748-1843), created (1814) Baron Lynedoch, and of his kinsman and heir, Robert Graham, formerly Graeme, Advocate, of Balgowan and Redgorton (1784-1859), a Lord of the Treasury (1834), and their families.
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Correspondence and papers, legal papers, memoranda and reports, tacks, rent rolls and accounts concerning the administration of the Balgowan, Lynedoch and Redgorton estates.
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Factors’ statements of estate accounts and related papers.
'Abstracts of accounts Glengarry', a ruled and lined volume containing summaries, 1861-1865., 1861-1865, 1904-1907.
Item
Identifier: MS.15161
Scope and Contents
Leaves have been torn out between folios 5 and 6, and 18 and 19. Those between 5 and 6 are headed ‘Forestry’.
The summaries are on folios 1 verso-5. There are also accounts for gardens, 1904-1907 (folios 8-12), shootings, 1905-1907 (folios 15-16) and stables, 1905-1907 (folios 18-19) written on surviving blank leaves.
Dates:
1861-1865, 1904-1907.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich.
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Estate finance books.
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Summaries of estate accounts.
Abstracts of accounts of Ochtertyre Trust., 1838-1841.
File
Identifier: MS.21162
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
1838-1841.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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Estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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Accounts of Ochtertyre estate.
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Papers of the Ochtertyre Trust.
Abstracts of accounts of the Public Revenue during the reign of King William III.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.10
Dates:
1688-1702.