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Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 205 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of letters, notes and other papers of Stephen Hislop., 1837-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8958
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Copies by Stephen Hislop of his letters to the conveners (Robert Gordon, James Buchanan, William K Tweedie) of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, with some other letters on financial matters, 1845-1852, 1857, undated (folio 1);
(ii) Copies in a later hand of Hislop's letters, 1846, 1850-1851, 1862, undated, to his colleague Robert Hunter (folio 84);
(iii) Notes, 1844-1845, 1851-1852, by Hislop on expenses (folio 131);
(iv) Various...
Dates:
1837-1862, undated.
Copy of a work written shortly after the death in 1751 of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, to show that the principalities usually possessed by the Prince of Wales belong to the Crown.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.3
Scope and Contents
The work consists largely of copies and abstracts of charters and other formal documents relating to the Stewartry and Principality of Scotland (folio 7), the Duchy of Cornwall (folio 57), the Principality of Wales and the Earldom of Chester (folio 60), the Duchy of Normandy (folio 62 verso) and the Dauphine of France (folio 62 verso), preceded by a summary of the contents (folio 2), and followed by a conclusion (folio 65 verso), an appendix (folio 66 verso), a copy (folio 75 verso) of an...
Dates:
1751, or after.
Correspondence and accounts of the Faculty of Advocates concerning publication and sales of Faculty Decisions.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/14
Dates:
1809-1837 undated
Correspondence and papers of John Coxe Hippisley, including letters to the 1st Earl of Minto, and material concerning Hippisley's financial and political affairs., 1783.
File
Identifier: MS.11143
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:
1783.
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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Family and general correspondence of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st Baronet, chiefly relating to his service with the East India Company at Madras, and to his personal financial and political affairs.
Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807., 1806-1807.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12908-12927
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.
Criminal proceedings: an abstract, eighteenth century, of the `Books of Adjournal of the Court of Justiciary`, 1536-1665.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.20
Dates:
1536-1665.
"Deemster John Parr's Abstract of the Laws of the Isle of Mann"., [1744, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.3176
Scope and Contents
The work is preceded by a dedication to Robert Heywood, Governor of the Isle of Man, and 'The supposed true cronicle of the Isle of Mann, coppied out of the originall'. It is written on paper watermarked 1744.
Dates:
[1744, or after.]
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents
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:
1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.
Discharge, 1843, by the Dean and Faculty of Advocates in favour of the Trustees and Executors of the late George Chalmers, referring to the fund left by Chalmers to found a hospital., 1843, 1848.
File
Identifier: MS.187
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1848, of Alexander Gifford, relating to the building of the hospital, and an abstract, 1843, of the trust fund, amounting to £31,242 : 13 : 4.
Dates:
1843, 1848.
Draft manuscripts and typescripts of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘The Place of Imagination in the Psychology of the Child’; ‘A Psycho-Analytical Interpretation of Soviet Russia’; ‘The Sociological Significance of Communism Considered in the Light of Psycho-Analysis’; and, notes for tutorials or lectures by Fairbairn., 1934-1935.
File
Identifier: MS.50179
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1934.‘The Place of Imagination in the Psychology of the Child’.Amended typescript, 1934, of a lecture, ‘The Place of Imagination in the Psychology of the Child’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The lecture was delivered at the Parents` National Education Union, Edinburgh Branch meeting, February 1934....
Dates:
1934-1935.
Draft manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and tutorials by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘The Rôle of the Aggressive Instinct in Manic-Depressive Insanity and Allied Conditions’; ‘The Nervous Child’; and, notes for tutorials, or other lectures, by Fairbairn., 1932.
File
Identifier: MS.50177
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically.1932.Tutorials. Manuscript notes, April 1932, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn concerning the subject of knowledge and self-analysis versus psychoanalysis. The notes would appear to have been prepared for lectures, or tutorials, given by Fairbairn at the Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh. Folios 1-3.‘The Rôle of the Aggressive Instinct in Manic-Depressive Insanity and Allied Conditions’....
Dates:
1932.
Drafts and typescripts of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Steps in the Development of an Object-Relations Theory of the Personality’; "A Synopsis of the Development of the Author`s Views in the Direction of a Psychology of Dynamic Structure"; and, ‘Comments on “Psychological Motifs in the Works of the Norwegian Sculptor, Gustav Vigeland” by Ingjald Nissen’., 1948-1951.
File
Identifier: MS.50193
Scope and Contents
1948.‘Steps in the Development of an Object-Relations Theory of the Personality’.Typescript, 1948, of a summary by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of his own paper, ‘Steps in the Development of an Object-Relations Theory of the Personality’. The paper was read at the Twelfth International Congress of Psychology, 26 July 1948. Folio 1.Amended typescript, 1948, of an article, ‘Steps in the Development of an Object-Relations Theory of the Personality’, by...
Dates:
1948-1951.
Election accounts and related correspondence and papers., 1779-1886.
File
Identifier: MS.13364
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:
1779-1886.
Epitome of the "Jus Feudale" (1603) of Sir Thomas Craig.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3752
Dates:
circa 1691.
Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich., 1834-1921, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15152-15169
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Dates:
1834-1921, undated.
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.
'Expedition of Charles, Prince of Wales', being a narrative of the Forty-Five by one who 'was eyewitness of the greatest part of what happened in the field'., 1745.
Item
Identifier: MS.3548
Scope and Contents
The narrative was apparently written shortly after Charles Edward's escape and reception in Paris. There is, in a modern hand, an abstract of the more important topics dealt with.
Dates:
1745.
Factors’ statements of estate accounts and related papers., 1765-1856.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16298-16325
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Dates:
1765-1856.
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.
Fair copy abstracts of entries concerning the Dunlop family from Alexander Dunlop's genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
File
Identifier: MS.9296
Scope and Contents
The abstracts are copies of entries from MSS.9274 ([Letter C(2)(i)]) and 9285 ('Letter N(1)').
Dates:
[Before 1939.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical notes on Scottish families; with a selective index to the notes compiled by John Dunlop of Gairbraid, and fair copy abstracts from the notes of material concerning the Dunlop family.
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Fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family and its connections from MSS.9274-9290: Genealogical notes on Scottish families.
Fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family and its connections from MSS.9274-9290: Genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9292-9296
Scope and Contents
The abstracts were probably made for J G Dunlop when he was preparing ‘The Dunlops of Dunlop’, volume 2 (1939) of the ‘The Dunlop Papers’, 3 volumes (London, 1932-1953).
Dates:
[Before 1939.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical notes on Scottish families; with a selective index to the notes compiled by John Dunlop of Gairbraid, and fair copy abstracts from the notes of material concerning the Dunlop family.
Fettercairn Mains Farm transactions., 1860-1861.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/618
Scope and Contents
Abstracts from ledger.
Dates:
1860-1861.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Accounts for Fettercairn and other estates.
Financial records., 1938-1996.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12753/58-70
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Constitutions, reports, minutes, correspondence, financial records and printed books, 1846–2001, of Donaldson's Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children and, from 1938, Donaldson's School.
Dates:
1938-1996.
Formal accounts for the whole estate of Minto, being those generally made up by the factor., 1691-1891.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13243-13246
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The estate papers for the Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus possessions of the Elliots of Minto provide a very full account of the history of these lands from the middle of the eighteenth century until the First World War. In particular the correspondence of the successive heads of the family with their factors and Edinburgh lawyers covers every aspect of estate management.The papers relating to Minto contain little material from before 1696, the year in which Sir Gilbert Elliot,...
Dates:
1691-1891.
Genealogical notes on Scottish families; with a selective index to the notes compiled by John Dunlop of Gairbraid, and fair copy abstracts from the notes of material concerning the Dunlop family., [?1790-1939, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9274-9296
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates:
[?1790-1939, or before.]
Journal of Mary, Countess of Minto, consisting of 'abstracts' by Lady Minto from more extensive journals., 1825-1831, 1841-1846.
Item
Identifier: MS.12010
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1825-1831, 1841-1846.
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, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Journals of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Minto, and their children.
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Journals of Mary, Countess of Minto, recording tours, visits or residences at home and abroad, but chiefly at Minto House and Nervi, near Genoa.
Labour journals of forester work., May 1858-May 1861, December 1859-December 1863.
File
Identifier: MS.13232
Scope and Contents
With abstarcts, December 1859-December 1863.
Dates:
May 1858-May 1861, December 1859-December 1863.