Abstracts. Summaries.
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale containing précis of letters of General Robert Alexander and John Fryer Thomas., 1857.
Notebooks containing fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family from Alexander Dunlop's genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
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).
Notes and letters on the genealogy of the Douglas family of Springwood Park including transcripts of charters and notes on other families related by marriage to the Douglases., 1739-1875, undated.
Most of these notes and letters were collected by Sir George H Scott-Douglas in preparation for the printing of the family's pedigree (MS.8109).
Papers, 1651-1876, chiefly concerning Principal Dunlop's activities in Carolina, Glasgow University matters, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland from 1689 to 1700., 1651-1876.
Papers and accounts connected with alterations to Minto House., 1860, 1864, 1891-1899, 1903, 1905-1906.
Papers and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Charles G J B Elliot, Admiral of the Fleet., 1844-1875, undated.
Papers compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1825-?1842.
Papers concerning the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, including copies of examinations of rebels, abstracts of correspondence, and minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices., 1744-1745.
Papers concerning the Arbroath and Forfar Railway., 1840-1853.
Papers concerning the destruction of shipping off the American coast., 1813-1815.
Papers concerning the Signet., 1661-1765, undated.
The great majority of the papers are monthly abstracts of fees from 1746 to 1765, when Lord Milton was Keeper. Also included are commissions to and resignations by sheriff clerks, certificates for prospective writers and other papers concerning the writers, and some papers concerning the Chancery and the Great Seal.
Papers concerning the Signet., 1661-1750.
The great majority of the papers are monthly abstracts of fees from 1746 to 1765, when Lord Milton was Keeper. Also included are commissions to and resignations by sheriff clerks, certificates for prospective writers and other papers concerning the writers, and some papers concerning the Chancery and the Great Seal.
Papers concerning the Signet., 1751-1757.
The great majority of the papers are monthly abstracts of fees from 1746 to 1765, when Lord Milton was Keeper. Also included are commissions to and resignations by sheriff clerks, certificates for prospective writers and other papers concerning the writers, and some papers concerning the Chancery and the Great Seal.
Papers concerning the Signet., 1758-1765, undated.
The great majority of the papers are monthly abstracts of fees from 1746 to 1765, when Lord Milton was Keeper. Also included are commissions to and resignations by sheriff clerks, certificates for prospective writers and other papers concerning the writers, and some papers concerning the Chancery and the Great Seal.
Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, concerning the office of Commissary-General to the army in Germany., 1761.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston from his career as tutor to the sons of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto, to the beginning of his diplomatic career in Munich and Ratisbon., 1756-1776.
The papers concern: Robert Liston's career as tutor to the sons of Sir Gilbert Elliot; the period from 1771 to 1773 which he spent in applying, unsuccessfully, for various posts; his assisting Gilbert Stuart in editing 'The London Magazine'; and the beginning of his diplomatic career, as secretary to Hugh Elliot in Munich and as Chargé d'Affaires to the Imperial Diet in Ratisbon, 1774-1776.
Papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1806-1874, undated.
Papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar concerning railways., 1818, 1836-1865.
Papers relating to Inveraray, especially the building of the Castle and the New Town., 1752-1754.
Papers relating to the personal interest of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn in migraine; and, personal recollections of Fairbairn in the context of self-analysis., 1919-circa 1955.
Particular accounts., 1714-1761.
Printed correspondence of James Stuart., 1782-[1791, or after].
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.
Printed papers for use of members of the Cabinet relating to the affairs of Greece., 1850.
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.
Printed papers relating to the dispute between Thomas Stamford Raffles and Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie., 1814.
Includes correspondence and papers, 1810-1814, of and concerning Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Java.