Abstracts. Summaries.
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
‘Accounts for Robert Graham Esq. of Redgorton’ for crop year 1853., December 1852-December 1853.
All but MS.16325 are uniformly bound, and with contents lists.
‘Accounts for Robert Graham Esq. of Redgorton’ for crop year 1854., December 1853-December 1854.
All but MS.16325 are uniformly bound, and with contents lists.
Accounts of Andrew Stuart with the Hamilton Trustees, chiefly concerning the Douglas Cause., 1762-1769.
Accounts of concerning the regality of Dunfermline., 1647-1704, 1832-1833, undated.
Administrative and business papers of Basil Cochrane., 1780-1787.
Annual accounts, statements and rentals, arranged in crop years, of the resident estate factor., 1812-1853.
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Balances and abstracts of general estate accounts., 1828-1935.
Carbon copy of a typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volumes VIII-XVI: 1868-1902., 1898-1902.
Commonplace book chiefly containing historical material., 17th century.
Comparative material concerning the Aberdeen Railway., 1848-1850.
The volume contains abstracts of revenue and statements of traffic made for purposes of comparison with similar abstracts and statements concerning the Arbroath and Forfar line.
Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and miscellaneous law notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and containing abstracts, practiques, copies of decisions, and correspondence of the reign of Charles I, commencing with a list of the religious houses in Scotland, with their district, order, and founder (folio i);
(ii) Miscellaneous law-notes, citing decisions from 1666 to 1675 (page 295) with an index (page 551).
Copies of dispatches and papers from Robert Townsend Farquhar to the Governor-General in Council sent to Thomas Stamford Raffles, secretary to the 1st Earl of Minto in Java, by Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Bengal, in June 1811., 1811.
Copies of letters, notes and other papers of Stephen Hislop., 1837-1862, 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.
Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807., 1806-1807.
"Deemster John Parr's Abstract of the Laws of the Isle of Mann"., [1744, or after.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Election accounts and related correspondence and papers., 1779-1886.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
Factors’ statements of estate accounts and related papers., 1765-1856.
Some letters, particularly in the first section of correspondence (MSS. 16198-215), also refer to more general political, military and social events.
Fair copy abstracts of entries concerning the Dunlop family from Alexander Dunlop's genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
The abstracts are copies of entries from MSS.9274 ([Letter C(2)(i)]) and 9285 ('Letter N(1)').