Abstracts. Summaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 205 Collections and/or Records:
Particular accounts., 1714-1761.
File
Identifier: MS.14660
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Annual lists of debts, 1714-1760 (lists for 1715, 1726, 1753 and 1755 are missing) (folio 1);(ii) Accounts, 1726-1727, of incidental expenses (folio 86);(iii) Abstracts of Edinburgh accounts, 1731-1741 (folio 88);(iv) Accounts of funeral expenses for Patrick Bartram, stable boy, Yester, 1733, and for Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale, 1737 (folio 102);(v) Abstracts of factors' accounts, 1742-1749 (folio...
Dates:
1714-1761.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, or Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale.
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Factors' and particular accounts.
Printed correspondence of James Stuart., 1782-[1791, or after].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8441-8455
Scope and Contents
With the exception of MS.8455, these volumes of printed correspondence were prepared by James Stuart in answer to the accusations raised against him. The contents duplicate to a large extent letters recorded elsewhere in the catalogue. The majority of the volumes contain manuscript indexes and abstracts, and manuscript marginal notes.
Dates:
1782-[1791, or after].
Printed papers for use of members of the Cabinet relating to the affairs of Greece., 1850.
File
Identifier: MS.12224
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) 'Extracts [in manuscript] of M. Drouyn de Lhuys's Despatches on Greek Question (1850)', 6 folios; (ii) 'Abstract of Greek Correspondence presented to both Houses of Parliament in February, April and May 1850', 42 pages.
Dates:
1850.
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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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Confidential papers chiefly printed for the use of members of the Cabinet.
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Various printed papers for use of members of the Cabinet.
Printed papers relating to the dispute between Thomas Stamford Raffles and Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie., 1814.
File
Identifier: MS.11701
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.
Dates:
1814.
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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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Correspondence with and papers concerning the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and other territories east of the Cape.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto and the Bengal Government concerning the British invasion and occupation of Java and other Dutch possessions in the East Indies.
Printed session papers, Kinloch v Rocheid, with manuscript notes by Lord President Blair., 1799-1800.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.1.12
Rejected drafts of the article ‘The Ultimate Basis of Aesthetic Experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn; with correspondence relating to the publication of the article., 1938-1939.
File
Identifier: MS.50185
Scope and Contents
Typescript, [1938], of original folios 28-35, re-foliated 29-36, of a draft of a version of the article ‘The ultimate basis of aesthetic experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The head of folio 28=29 has been annotated ‘I’. Folios 1-8.Amended typescript, [1938], of original folios 10-17, 19, 26-50, of a draft of a longer version of the article ‘The ultimate basis of aesthetic experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The head of original folio 26 has been annotated...
Dates:
1938-1939.
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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Articles and lectures of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.
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Typescripts of an article, `The ultimate basis of aesthetic experience’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, with related papers.
Riddell`s copy of ‘Abstracts of the Evidence submitted to a jury on Behalf of Andrew Stirling, Esquire, of Drumpellier, claiming to be served heir-male in general of Robert Stirling of Bankeyr and Lettyr’ (1818), containing notes and additions in his hand., 1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.25
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1818.
Series of general abstracts of military events in Portugal from 27 September 1810 to 31 July 1811., 1810-1811.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.1
Scope and Contents
The abstracts begin on folio 4 and are illustrated by maps (folios 77-78, 103, 189), statistical returns of troops (folios 155-159) and extracts of letters (folios 161, 163, 175). They are preceded by a memorandum in reply to observations by Colonel (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Henry W Bunbury, 7th Baronet, 1811 (folio 1), and there are notes in red ink in the margins of several of the pages by Bunbury (according to a note at folio 15 verso). A leaf is cut out between folios 105 and...
Dates:
1810-1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
'Short abstract of the 12th of Charles the Second, commonly called the Navigation law, with some observations on its relative force between England and Ireland.', 1784.
File
Identifier: MS.64
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes letters of Lord North, 1783, John Foster, 1784, and others on the subject of the Navigation Law, and abstracts of trade between Great Britain and Ireland in the year 1783.
Dates:
1784.
Small collections of letters and papers., 1647-1862, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2207
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Miscellaneous papers, 1647-1781, consisting chiefly of letters and orders addressed to William Farquharson of Inverey by Middleton and others, in connection with the Royalist campaign in Scotland, 1647-1656. 'Archaeologia Scotia', volume v, appendix, page 57. (Folio 1.)(ii) Orders of General Monck relating to Sir Robert Campbell of Glenorchy and the McNabs, 1654-1655, with modern transcripts, and a chaplain's commission given to...
Dates:
1647-1862, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 13: papers., ?1639-1641, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xiii]
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning political events, especially the Scots army at Newcastle and affairs in the English Parliament. Some printed ballads and letters to Sir James Balfour are included.
Dates:
?1639-1641, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1560-1641, undated.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents
A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows:
(i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham.
(ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582.
(iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland.
(iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’.
(v) The heads whereof George...
Dates:
17th century.
Travel and London expenses., 1713-1764.
File
Identifier: MS.14661
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts of expenses of journeys: Yester to Hamilton, May 1713; inn and horse bills, with abstract, for the journey from London to Yester, May 1755 (folio 1);(ii) Inn and horse bills, largely Scottish, 1722-1760 (folio 49);(iii) Freight bills, 1724-1761 (folio 79);(iv) Bills of exchange, 1753-1760 (folio 94);(v) Bill of fees at the Lord Chamberlain's office, 1758 (folio 98).(vi) Bills,...
Dates:
1713-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Personal, household and estate accounts of the Hays of Yester.
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Personal and household (Yester, Edinburgh and London) and Yester estates accounts.
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Accounts chiefly of, to or concerning the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, or Frances, Marchioness of Tweeddale.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations., 1898-1902.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.53.3.1-53.3.6
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; index., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.5
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volume I, part 1: 1672-1804., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.1
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volume I, part 2: 1672-1804., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.2
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volumes II-VII: 1804-1868., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.3
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volumes VIII-XVI: 1868-1902., 1898-1902.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.4
Dates:
1898-1902.
Typescript of ‘A Critical Edition of Bede on the Seven Catholic Epistles, based on the two early Oxford Manuscripts', volume I: 'Abstract' by Christian H M Milne., 1941.
Item
Identifier: MS.3696
Dates:
1941.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescript of ‘A Critical Edition of Bede on the Seven Catholic Epistles, based on the two early Oxford Manuscripts', being a thesis presented for the Oxford Doctorate of Philosophy in 1941 by Christian H M Milne, formerly Headmaster of Daniel Stewart's College.
Typescripts of a paper, ‘Is Aggression an Irreducible Factor?’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1938.
File
Identifier: MS.50186
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically. 1938.Carbon copy of a typescript abstract, 1938, of a paper, ‘Is Aggression an Irreducible Factor?’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folios 1-4.Amended typescript, 1938, of the paper, ‘Is Aggression an Irreducible Factor?’ by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The paper has been amended by Fairbairn. It was read before the British Psychological Society, St Andrews’ Meeting, 12 April 1938: a symposium on ‘The Concept...
Dates:
1938.
Typescripts of papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘The Psychological Factor in Sexual Delinquency’; and, ‘Psychology as Prescribed and as a Proscribed Subject’., 1939.
File
Identifier: MS.50187
Scope and Contents
The papers are arranged chronologically. 1939.‘The Psychological Factor in Sexual Delinquency’.Printed ‘Final Programme’, 1939, for the National Council of Mental Hygiene, Fifth Biennial Mental Health Conference. Folios 1-2.Typescript draft, 1939, of ‘The Psychological Factor in Sexual Delinquency’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The paper has been annotated (folio 3 recto) by Fairbairn, ‘Draft – not included in paper’. The draft has been...
Dates:
1939.
Various papers of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Free Church of Scotland., 1849-1894, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19103
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The archive of the General Treasurer of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900, with related papers including a few of slightly earlier and later date. The archive gives a complete picture of the financial basis of one of the most significant organised religious bodies in Scotland, from the Disruption to the first of the major Presbyterian reunions, dealing in great detail with the sources of finance and with its expenditure on a variety of projects.
Dates:
1849-1894, undated.