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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:

Copies of enclosures in dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors., 15 April 1810.

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Identifier: MS.11663
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: 15 April 1810.

Copies of historical works of Alexander Hume, preceded by a Latin treatise.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.3
Scope and Contents The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.7.18.The contents are as follows:(i) ‘De foedere Dei cum homine’, ‘Arminianorum abjectiones adversus hanc doctrinam’, 1653 (folio 1); (ii) ‘Rerum scoticarum compendium in usum scholarum, per Alexandrum Humium’, 1660 (folio 72); (iii) ‘Clavis in Buchananum, hoc est, nomi num propriorum aliorumque elucidatio’, undated (folio 165).At the end of the volume are some...
Dates: 1653, 1660, undated.

Copies of letters to John Burdon-Sanderson and of papers and speeches given by him to learned societies and on other occasions., [?1854-before 1906.]

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Identifier: MS.20032
Scope and Contents

The papers were apparently intended for use in ‘Sir John Burdon Sanderson a memoir’, which was begun by Lady Burdon-Sanderson after his death in 1905 and completed and edited after her death in 1909 by their niece and nephew Elizabeth S Haldane (in whose hand many of the copies are written, most of the rest being in typescript) and John S Haldane, in 1911.

Dates: [?1854-before 1906.]

Copies of letters, tracts and other papers concerning the troubles in Scotland during the reign of Charles I.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.14
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: Jac.5.6.9.

Dates: 1637-1639.

Copies of miscellaneous dispatches, memoranda and papers sent by the Foreign Office to the 2nd Earl of Minto as First Lord of the Admiralty or as a member of the Cabinet., 1839-1840.

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Identifier: MS.12218
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates: 1839-1840.

Copies of the enclosures in the dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors, concerning disaffection in the Madras Army, copied in MS.11347., [1810, or after.]

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Identifier: MS.11348
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: [1810, or after.]

Copies, sixteenth century, of miscellaneous Italian documents concerning Italian, and especially Venetian, diplomacy., 1532-1590, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5732-5733
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1532-1590, undated.

Copies, sixteenth century, of miscellaneous Italian documents concerning Italian, and especially Venetian, diplomacy., 1532-1570, undated.

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Identifier: MS.5732
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1532-1570, undated.

Copies, sixteenth century, of miscellaneous Italian documents concerning Italian, and especially Venetian, diplomacy; and brief descriptions of the geography, politics, etc., of France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and various Italian states., 1547-1590, undated.

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Identifier: MS.5733
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 1547-1590, undated.

Copy, 18th century, by Samuel Ayscough of documents concerning revenues of religious houses.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.5.5
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is an imperfect copy of the book of assumption of benefices.

The transcript is from the Harleian manuscript (4623 (or 4613) tom 2).

Dates: 16th century-17th century.

Correspondence, 1838-1846, concerning the subscriptions for and building of the Scott Monument., 1838-1918, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15974
Scope and Contents

The letters are addressed to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, John Castle and John Dick. There are also a few miscellaneous letters and papers, 1853-1918, undated.

Dates: 1838-1918, undated.

Correspondence, 1851-1892, undated, and papers and press cuttings, 1849-1892, undated, of James Taylor., 1849-1892, undated.

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Identifier: MS.15908
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, 1851-1892, undated, consisting chiefly of James Taylor's letters to his family in Scotland, with a few addressed to him. The series begins with Taylor's departure from London and describes life on the estates of Naranghera and Loolecondera from the early stages of clearing land in order to plant coffee, to the running of an established estate. There are descriptions of scenery, reactions to news of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, views on how to...
Dates: 1849-1892, undated.

Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna., August-20 December 1815.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: August-20 December 1815.

Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna., 21-31 December 1815, and partially dated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 21-31 December 1815, and partially dated.

Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna., 27-31 January 1816, and partially dated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 27-31 January 1816, and partially dated.

Correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the occupation in France following the Congress of Vienna., 13-29 February 1816, and partially dated.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.46.6.15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.

Dates: 13-29 February 1816, and partially dated.