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Ciphers. Codes.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Codes used specifically to disguise the content of a message, involving a rule defined by a secret key known only to the transmitters and legitimate receivers of the message. (AAT) Use for all documents in, or including, cipher, and also for cipher keys. Where a cipher key is present record the fact in the catalogue record. (NLS) .

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Various literary papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 18th century-19th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5113
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Addresses, 1835, undated, of an unidentified R D Murray to a St Stephen's Society, on such subjects as the advantages of public education, poetry, phrenology, etc. (folio 1);(ii) Class cards, lecture notes (mostly on legal subjects), and copies of the regulations for Dollar Academy, with excerpts from the sederunt books of the trustees, 1826 (folio 97);(iii) Various short prose pieces, chiefly nineteenth century, including...
Dates: 18th century-19th century.