Documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, ""documents"" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media. For the activity of gathering and recording information, see ""documentation (function)""For specfic types of documents, see concepts under ""document genres."".
Found in 1533 Collections and/or Records:
Account of a visit by Mrs A McLachlan to Magomero, the original site of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa., 1978.
Item
Identifier: MS.20311, folios 356-358
Account of an expedition by the acting governor against the state of Esikuma., 1837.
Item
Identifier: MS.20323
Scope and Contents
This account appears to be the only source for this action.
Dates:
1837.
Accounts, 1865-1869, with Lindsay, Mackay and Howe, with other letters and papers., [?1865-?1869.]
File
Identifier: Acc.3521/13
Dates:
[?1865-?1869.]
Accounts of John Clarke, vintner, Haddington, 1779-1787, and papers concerning William Horn in Saltoun, 1801-1823, and Thomas Watson in Gilchriston, 1826-1831, undated., 1779-1831, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17257
Dates:
1779-1831, undated.
Administrative and political papers of the Elliot family of Minto., 1752-1781, 1801, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11031-11041
Dates:
1752-1781, 1801, undated.
Admiralty papers and some associated correspondence on various subjects, of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1822-1853.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12062-12066
Dates:
1822-1853.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, with further correspondence and papers on Admiralty and general naval affairs, 1822-1856.
Album containing, pasted in, formal letters and documents, some printed items and a number of press cuttings, 1882-1949, chiefly concerning the military career of Aylmer Haldane., 1882-1950, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.20259
Scope and Contents
A small number of items relate to formal and ceremonial occasions at which Aylmer Haldane was present, and to his published writings.
Also pasted in are a few items, 1943, 1945, undated, concerning Haldane’s sister Alice (numbers 164-168), and obituary notices, 1950, of him (numbers 192-194).
Dates:
1882-1950, undated.
Album of letters and documents, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1514-1851.
File
Identifier: MS.3418
Dates:
1514-1851.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Four albums of letters and documents, largely of Scottish interest, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple.
Album of letters and documents, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple., 1608-1894.
File
Identifier: MS.3419
Dates:
1608-1894.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Manuscripts compiled and collected by the Honourable Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library.
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Four albums of letters and documents, largely of Scottish interest, compiled by Sir Hew Dalrymple.
Apology for his conversion to Roman Catholicism by Alexander Cameron, a younger son of John Cameron of Lochiel, and subsequently a Jesuit missioner in Scotland.
Item
Identifier: MS.20310
Scope and Contents
The apology is addressed to Alexander Cameron’s brother, probably his elder brother Donald (who succeeded their father in 1748) and is the manuscript (or a contemporary fair copy of the manuscript) accompanying the letter he wrote him from Boulogne in August, apparently the month before he entered the philosophy course at the Scots College, Douai, in September 1730.The apology appears to be unpublished. The letter, which is held at Achnacarry, is discussed and printed in 'The...
Dates:
[1730.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
'Appin Murder, 1752. Original Letters’, concerning the trial of James Stewart for the murder of Colin Campbell., 1752.
File
Identifier: MS.315
Army Book originally in the possession of by his father, used to contain an account by Philip C Trotter, son of Sir Philip D Trotter, of the Allied Military Mission to Hungary and its successor the later Allied Military Mission of Control on both of which he served, 1921-1922, and writings on linguistics, circa 1952, including notes and draft criticisms of works by William Empson., 1921-1922, [circa 1952].
Item
Identifier: MS.20303
Scope and Contents
The greater part of the volume is blank.
Dates:
1921-1922, [circa 1952].
Assorted papers concerning the Peninsular War, with transcripts of accounts relating to British military involvement in Portugal in 1762 and 1797., 1762, 1797, 1808-1814.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.3.5
Scope and Contents
The transcripts relating to British military involvement in Portugal concern the activities of Lieutenant-General George Townshend during the Spanish invasion of Portugal, 1762, and Colonel Sir Charles Stuart during the defence of Portugal, 1797.
Dates:
1762, 1797, 1808-1814.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War in which he served (except during 1812 when he was in Ireland) as quartermaster-general.
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Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.16493-16494
Dates:
[?1820.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Autobiographical papers of Mary E Haldane., 1896, [1916-1917], 1922-1925, undated
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.20017
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of an account, 1896, (possibly a fair copy written up from notes or a diary) of a trip to Italy, travelling as far as Rome (folio 1), and reminiscences, ?1916, 1922-1925, undated, of Mary E Haldane’s early life and experiences (folio 15).
Dates:
1896, [1916-1917], 1922-1925, undated
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
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Correspondence and papers of Mary E Haldane, consisting chiefly of letters written to her by members of her family, chiefly her sisters and brother, and of her husband's family, and by friends.
‘Autographs, 8, Napoleon & his officers’., 1779-1870.
File
Identifier: MS.9310
‘Autographs, 9, Napoleon & his officers’., 1795-1884.
File
Identifier: MS.9311
‘Autographs, 10, Napoleon & his officers’., 1779-1870.
File
Identifier: MS.9312
‘Autographs, 11, Napoleon & his camp’., 1794-1840.
File
Identifier: MS.9313
‘Autographs, 12, Napoleon & his court’., 1797-1881.
File
Identifier: MS.9314
Scope and Contents
The volume contains letters of Napoleon's family and members of his administration.
Dates:
1797-1881.
Bound volume containing copies in typescript carbon of minutes of meetings of, and of other papers associated with, the National Society for the Employment of Epileptics, of which Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson was secretary., 1891-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.20029
Scope and Contents
About seven leaves have been cut out between folios 94 and 95.
Dates:
1891-1893.
Bound volume entitled ‘Reminiscences of my father [by] E.B.S.’ containing a typed copy of a biography illustrated by selections from his correspondence, of Richard Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond (died 1865) compiled after his death by his daughter Elizabeth., Late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.20027
Scope and Contents
The leaves are typed on one side only: notes and additions have been written on some of the blank sides and press-cuttings have been pasted to some others.The biography is followed by leaves from some of Richard Burdon-Sanderson's published works pasted in (folio 383), copies of newspaper reports of the death in 1876 of his son Richard (folio 469), copies of press notices of Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson (folio 492), and a genealogy of the family of William Scott,...
Dates:
Late 19th century.