Contracts. Agreements.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents, enforceable by law, embodying agreements between two or more competent parties to do or not to do something, and specifying the terms and conditions of the agreement.
Found in 485 Collections and/or Records:
Twelve letters of Sir Walter Scott to several correspondents., 1804-1828.
File
Identifier: MS.786, folios 1-26
Scope and Contents
With a letter from Archibald Constable containing a contract with Sir Walter Scott for an edition of his ‘Miscellaneous Prose Works’ (Edinburgh, 1825), enclosing the copy of an agreement between James Ballantyne and Hurst, Robinson & Company, regarding the Novelist’s Library, 1822 (folio 19).
Dates:
1804-1828.
Two agreements concerning the lands of Hindhope in Selkirkshire and Maryheugh in Berwickshire.
File
Identifier: Acc.6497
Dates:
1695, 1703.
Typescript of 'Wilderness dreams' radio play, and contract., 1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.12233/78
Typescripts of 'Knots and Crosses' by Ian Rankin; with related working papers and administrative materials., Circa 1985-Circa 2006., bulk: 1985-1987.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50354-50357
Dates:
Circa 1985-Circa 2006.; Majority of material found within 1985-1987.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, working papers, and published extracts of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, and working papers of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the police procedural novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin.
Typescripts of 'The Flood', a literary novel by Ian Rankin; with related working papers, administrative and promotional materials., Circa 1984-1986.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50432-50435
Dates:
Circa 1984-1986.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, working papers, and published extracts of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, and working papers of the novels of Ian Rankin.
Typescripts of 'Tooth and Nail' by Ian Rankin; with related working papers and a cover proof., 1990-1991, undated.
File
Identifier: MSS.50400-50402
Scope and Contents
Notes of Ian Rankin relating to the development of the plot and characters for ‘Tooth and Nail’. The notes include references to specific drafts, including first and final drafts. The distinction between notes relating to specific drafts is not always clear. Some notes have been revisited and subsequently annotated by Rankin as his development of the novel progressed. Included are editorial notes relating to plot and character revisions and additional plot development...
Dates:
1990-1991, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Papers relating to the literary and other creative works of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, working papers, and published extracts of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Manuscripts, typescripts, and working papers of the novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the police procedural novels of Ian Rankin.
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Typescripts and working papers of the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin.
United Kingdom and United Stated publishing contracts of Jan Struther., 1937-1995.
File
Identifier: Acc.13220/36
Dates:
1937-1995.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary and personal papers, 1909-1953, of Joyce Anstruther Placzek, known as 'Jan Struther', with related papers, 1954-2010, including printed material and press cuttings.
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Contracts and other work-related papers of Jan Struther.
Various manuscripts of David Hume., 1738-1776, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.23159
Scope and Contents
The papers include David Hume's agreement with John Noon for publishing the ‘Treatise of human nature’, 1738; his appointment as Judge Advocate, 1746; a letter of Hume recounting the order to remove three French works purchased by him while Keeper of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates - ‘Contes’ of La Fontaine, Bussy-Rabutin's ‘Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules,’ and Crébillon's ‘L'Ecumoire,’ - deemed by three of his curators 'indecent Books and unworthy of a place in a learned Library',...
Dates:
1738-1776, undated.
Vendition of the Union Shipping Company and the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company., bulk: 1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 70-74
Scope and Contents
Concerning a valuation of the Coldstream Packet.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
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Letters and documents of, to and concerning Archibald Anderson, James Innes, and others, in Jamaica, and Robert Scollay and Thomas Bolt, in the Shetland Islands.
Vendition of the Union Shipping Company and the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company., 1811.
Item
Identifier: MS.50277 folios 70-74
Scope and Contents
Concerning a valuation of the Coldstream Packet.
Dates:
1811.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and other documents concerning Scots and the West Indies.
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Letters and documents of, to and concerning Archibald Anderson, James Innes, and others, in Jamaica, and Robert Scollay and Thomas Bolt, in the Shetland Islands.