Drafts. Negotiable instruments.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written orders drawn by one party ordering a second party to pay a specified sum of money to a third party (who may be the first party); usually restricted to domestic transactions. For similar orders to pay used for foreign transactions, prefer ""bills of exchange"" .
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Bills and receipts of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion, 1859-1867, and undated (folio 1), together with lists of subscriptions and other financial papers, 1859-1866, and undated (folio 85)., 1859-1867.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.19
Dates:
1859-1867.
Correspondence, rough notes, memoranda, and drafts of parliamentary speeches of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, concerning the campaign for a Militia Act for Scotland., 1756, 1760-1761, 1766.
File
Identifier: MS.11031
Scope and Contents
Included is a draft of a pamphlet 'Reasons for extending the Militia Acts to the Disarmed countys of Scotland', attributed to George Dempster (folio 77).
Dates:
1756, 1760-1761, 1766.
Draft contract between John, Lord Saltoun and Mr William Livingston, his servant., 1612.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13209
Draft of the gift of the escheat of Walter Kinninmond of Kilduncan, his son Patrick, and his brother Gideon, for the slaughter of Andrew, son of David Kinninmond of Kinninmonth., 1617.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10484
Editorial correspondence and papers of Gairm magazine and of Gairm Publications.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11391
Dates:
1972-1996.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Formal documents from the papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
Series
Identifier: Ch.7566-7593
Scope and Contents
Most of the documents are drafts and cancelled charters which concern the 1st Marquess.
Dates:
1517-1875.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Four drafts issued by Thomas Moore against John Murray II, with a receipt issued by Moore for money received., 1823.
File
Identifier: MS.42493
Fragment of draft of documents used as a book cover, containing inscription [possibly] Jo Higgins [possibly] Coal Book 1700` and a number of monetary calculations., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Ch.5895
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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East Lothian Charters.
Legal and financial papers concerning Washington Irving., 1820-1851.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42316-42317
Scope and Contents
The papers here concern legal and financial matters between Irving and the publishing house of Murray. The legal instruments concern the copyrights of works by Washington Irving while the financial instruments are mainly in relation to payments that Murray made to Irving.
Dates:
1820-1851.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Burney, S. to Burnside., 1807-1906.
File
Identifier: MS.40172
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and, where required, by date under each name.Burney, Selina, 1813: folios 1-2;Burney, William, 1807-1822: folios 3-57:includes receipt signed by James Nunn: folio 11;invoice of Grayhurst and Harvey, goldsmiths and jewellers, to William Burney: folio 20;Burnie, Robert, 1891-1906: folios 58-60;Burnouf, Eugène, 1877-1879: folios 61-66:includes letters,...
Dates:
1807-1906.
Manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of autobiographical work of Naomi Mitchison, "Small Talk" (1973).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5942
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescripts of three autobiographical articles.
Dates:
1973.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems by John Kincaid (1909-1981), the schoolteacher and founder member of the Clyde Group.
File
Identifier: MS.26189
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Drafts, fair copies and a few typescripts of poems, 1968-1969, undated (folio l). These were included in the posthumously published collection of John Kincaid's poems, ‘Windward of Ithaca; one man's love of Mull’ (Droitwich, 1986).
(ii) 'The Flyting of Kincaid and Gold', 1969 (folio 36). Manuscripts, corrected typescripts and the final typescript of a poetic dispute written by Kincaid and Eric Gold.
(iii) Drafts of poems by Kincaid, 1968-1969, undated...
Dates:
1968, 1969, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Miscellany of papers concerning the Ellice family., 1799-1815, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15176
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Correspondence, chiefly with George Chalmers, and notes, on antiquarian topics, 1799- 1815, undated (folio 1); (ii) Papers, 1741-1803, undated, concerning the Ellice family, consisting of typed biographical accounts (some incomplete) and copies of portraits of members of the family (folio 75); (iii) A small quantity of unrelated papers, 1844-1921, undated, found loosely enclosed in other parts of the collection (folio 216).
Dates:
1799-1815, undated.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers of Edward Ellice (died 1863) of Invergarry and of his son Edward Ellice (died 1880) of Invergarry, and of other members of the Ellice family descended from Alexander Ellice, 'America and West Indies Merchant', London, who died at Bath in 1805.
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Miscellaneous papers.
Papers and correspondence of Dudley Sommer concerning his biography of Lord Haldane.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.348- is now MSS.20661-20667.
Dates:
1952-1964.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Papers, chiefly financial and legal, of the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale., [Circa 1694]-1739.
File
Identifier: MS.14499
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the following:
(i) Family financial and legal papers, 1697-1732, of the Marquess and Marchioness of Tweeddale (folio 1);
(ii) Draft, circa 1694, in the hand of the 3rd Marquess of Tweeddale, endorsed: 'Draught of a paper for securing the jewel of the family' (folio 19);
(iii) Legal and financial papers, 1699-1739, undated, including accounts, relating to the claim of Susan, Marchioness of Tweeddale and the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale on the Dundonald estate (folio...
Dates:
[Circa 1694]-1739.
Papers compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1825-?1842.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.24
Scope and Contents
The material was compiled over a number of years, probably between about 1825 and 1840, and consists of accounts of parishes and families, notes and extracts from printed sources and collections of formal documents, and some original documents and printed items. The complete title of the work was apparently intended to be `Dumbartonshire Illustrated with regard chiefly to its Territorial History and Family Antiquities`, but the work appears never to have been finished (for example, there are...
Dates:
1825-?1842.
Papers concerning the compilation of the volume of essays to celebrate the National Library of Scotland`s tercentenary.
File
Identifier: Acc.9829
Dates:
circa 1989
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Papers of and concerning Jane Austen., 1815-1831.
File
Identifier: MS.42001
Scope and Contents
Folio(s) 1-3 : two letters, 1815, of Jane Austen to John Murray II; 4-7 : two letters, 1819 and 1831, of Cassandra Elizabeth Austen to John Murray II concerning works by Jane Austen; 8 : bank draft, 1816, in favour of Jane Austen; and, 9-11 : three bank drafts in favour jointly of Henry Austen and Cassandra Elizabeth Austen. Each draft is for value received in "Northanger Abbey, etc.". f. 9 : 31 December 1818; f. 10 :...
Dates:
1815-1831.
Papers of and concerning Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, and his family.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6604/1-3
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers of randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway and his wife Countess Harriet Blanche, 1834-73, consisting mainly of political and family letters.
Including circa 90 letters, containing social and political news and comment.
With a draft of a parliamentary speech on the Colliery Bill, 1842.
Dates:
1826-1871.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Papers relating to: (i) criticism by Michael Balint, Siegmund Foulkes and John Sutherland of the views of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn on certain psycho-analtyical conceptions, and (ii) Fairbairn’s response; all published in the ‘British Journal for the Philosophy of Science’, volume 7, number 28 (1957)., 1955-1956.
File
Identifier: MS.50208
Scope and Contents
1955.Papers concerning the criticisms made by Michael Balint, Siegmund Foulkes and John Sutherland.Balint, Michael.Letter, with enclosure, 1955, of Michael Balint to William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The enclosure, forwarded for Fairbairn’s comments, is a carbon copy of Balint’s ‘Criticism of Fairbairn’s Generalisation about Object-Relations’. The criticism was published in the ‘British Journal for the Philosophy of Science’, 1957. Folios 1-5....
Dates:
1955-1956.
Passbook of Andrew Stuart with the Royal Bank of Scotland for the years 1761-1788, with some drafts relating to the account., 1761-1788.
File
Identifier: MS.8282
Rough preliminary draft of the first chapter of ‘Thermography’, dated July 1881, differing from the final version., 1881.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.50.6.9
Dates:
1881.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Original manuscripts of John Francis Campbell`s non-Gaelic publications, mostly based on his journals, and volumes of scientific material, reflecting his particular interest in glaciation, meteorology and thermography.
Working papers, texts and correspondence of Professor Archie Duncan relating to his work on "Regesta Regum Scottorum, volume 5: The Acts of Robert I, 1306-29".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12934
Dates:
circa 1950-1989.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts