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 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 242 Collections and/or Records:

Microfilm of correspondence and associated papers of General Sir George Murray during the Peninsular War.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1044
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Correspondence and associated papers, January-March 1810 (Adv.MS.46.2.4);

Correspondence and associated papers, April-August 1810 (Adv.MS.46.2.5).

Dates: 1810.

Microfilm of correspondence and other papers of, or associated with, Robert Burns.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1171
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Correspondence and poems, [?1787-?1795], of Robert Burns (MS.15951); Fragments of the autobiographical letter, 1787, of Robert Burn to Dr John Moore (MS.15952);Letters, poems, accounts, etc., 1783-1796, undated, of Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson, mounted in an album titled 'Burns MSS' (MS.586);   Letters, etc., late 18th century-early 19th century, associated with Robert Burns, collected by William Finlay Watson....
Dates: Late 18th century-early 19th century.

Microfilm of correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane as Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.242
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Papers, 1814-1815, concerning relations with the Native American peoples of the southern region of North America, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station (MS.2328), 190 frames; Papers and correspondence, 1814-1815, relating to the New Orleans expedition, from the time when Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane was Commander-in-Chief of the North American Station (MS.2330), 186...
Dates: 1814-1815.

Microfilm of correspondence of the 1st Earl and Countess of Minto.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1442
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Letters and enclosures of Anne Hayman, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Caroline, Princess of Wales and to the 1st Earl of Minto, with copies of some of the Earl's letters, 1798-1813 (MS.11131, folios 186-187, 198-234);Letters and enclosures of Anne Hayman, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Caroline, Princess of Wales and to the 1st Earl of Minto, with copies of some of the Earl's letters, 1799-1809 (MS.11132);Correspondence, 1798-1818, of the...
Dates: 1798-1818.

Microfilm of Crawford papers.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.844
Scope and Contents

This is a basic record only.

The dates are taken from the original accession record and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: ?14th century-?20th century.

Microfilm of dispatches, memoranda and enclosures of or to the 1st Earl of Minto.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1444
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Various dispatches and memoranda, August 1809, sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam (MS.11657);

Copies of dispatches and enclosures, 12 October-27 December 1809, of the 1st Earl to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11662);

Copies of enclosures, 15 April 1810, in dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11663).

Dates: 1809-1810.

Microfilm of fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, an account of the castes in Malabar by Alexander Walker; and, Memorandums, [circa 1800], of Alexander Walker concerning Malabar.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.511
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume I by Alexander Walker (MS.13810);

Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume II by Alexander Walker (MS.13811);

Memorandum, [circa 1800[, of Alexander Walker on the 'origin of money in Malabar' (MS.13825);

Memoranda, 1801, of Alexander Walker on land tenures and on the state of slavery in Malabar (MS.13826).

Dates: [Circa 1800, 1821, or after.]

Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.31
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: ‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century...
Dates: 1560-1903.

Microfilm of genealogical material.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.28
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Genealogical material, 17th century-18th century, relating to various families in Scotland (Adv.MS.16.2.5);Collection of papers, 16th century, relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents (Adv.MS.19.1.18);Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the...
Dates: 16th century-18th century.

Microfilm of ‘Geographical Collections’, volume 1, of Walter Macfarlane, 1748-1749; and, copy of David Hume's original manuscript account, 1763-1766, of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.169
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: ‘Geographical Collections relating to Scotland containing particular Description of Shires, Parishes, Burroughs etc in that Kingdom’, of Walter Macfarlane, 1748-1749, volume 1 (Adv.MS.35.3.12(i));

Copy of David Hume's original manuscript account, 1763-1766, of the quarrel between himself and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with additions and corrections in Hume's own hand (MS.5722).

Dates: 1748-1766.