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Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts of Andrew Stuart with the Hamilton Trustees, chiefly concerning the Douglas Cause., 1762-1769.

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Identifier: MS.5363
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Account of expenditure abroad, July 1762, to January 1766 (folio 1), followed by drafts of this account giving more detail (folio 36);(ii) Accounts relative to the Douglas Cause, 1762-1769 (folio 122);(iii) 'General abstract of the whole expence in relation to the Douglas Cause in Scotland', 1769 (folio 134), with other abstracts and a memorial concerning the proportion to be paid by Sir Hew Dalrymple (folio 142);...
Dates: 1762-1769.

Accounts of concerning the regality of Dunfermline., 1647-1704, 1832-1833, undated.

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Identifier: MS.14729
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Accounts and related papers, 1647-1695, concerning the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's claims for teinds and feu duties out of the estate of George Durie of Craigluscar (folio 1);(ii) Notes and related papers, 1651-1697, undated, concerning arrears of teind and feu duties (folio 35);(iii) Accounts, 1683-1686, of the estate of Limekilns at the time of its sale (folio 66);(iv) Accounts and receipts, 1683-1686, of the...
Dates: 1647-1704, 1832-1833, undated.

Administrative and business papers of Basil Cochrane., 1780-1787.

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Identifier: MS.8459
Scope and Contents The main topics are the accusation of murder brought against Basil Cochrane through the death of his servant after flogging (folio 8) and Cochrane's contract with the East India Company for the monopoly of supplying the Company's troops in Madras with spiritous liquors (folio 115). There is a report, 1786, by a Company solicitor in reply to a petition presented by the Earl of Dundonald on behalf of Cochrane (folio 182), and an abstract, 1786, of Cochrane's case against the Company Directors...
Dates: 1780-1787.

Commonplace book chiefly containing historical material., 17th century.

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Identifier: MS.2095
Scope and Contents The contents include copies of speeches, letters, and various documents, abstracts, tables, and notes relating to history (chiefly Scottish, of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; also Highland and some English), foundations of religious houses at Restalrig and St Andrews, rents of Church benefices, coinage, Crown rents, Dutchmen fishing with busses in British waters, the Royal Navy, merchant adventures, etc., with notes from Scripture, epitaphs, etc. In various different...
Dates: 17th century.

Comparative material concerning the Aberdeen Railway., 1848-1850.

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Identifier: MS.15484
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1848-1850.

Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and miscellaneous law notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.1943
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: Late 17th century-early 18th century.

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.

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Identifier: MS.11681
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: 1811.

Copies of letters, notes and other papers of Stephen Hislop., 1837-1862, undated.

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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.

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.

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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.

Correspondence and papers of William Elliot of Wells as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1806-1807., 1806-1807.

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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.

"Deemster John Parr's Abstract of the Laws of the Isle of Mann"., [1744, or after.]

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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.]

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.

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Identifier: MS.187
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

'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.

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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.