Anecdotes.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Short entertaining stories about real incidents or people. Source: 'Concise Oxford English dictionary', 11th edition (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
‘Album', compiled by James Hopkirk, Dalbeth., 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.3062
Scope and Contents
A collection of curious facts, comic anecdotes, verse, etc., chiefly of Scottish interest, including 'Manners of the inhabitants of Glasgow in former times' (folio 31) and a list of proverbs (folio 35).
Dates:
1826.
Anecdotes about Highland ministers, and a few poems in Gaelic on ministers and parishes, compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson ., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.470
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Anecdotes about Highland 'ministers and men' compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.471-472
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Anecdotes about Highland 'ministers and men' compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.471
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Anecdotes about Highland 'ministers and men' compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Anecdotes about Highland 'ministers and men' compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.472
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Anecdotes about Highland 'ministers and men' compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Anecdotes about Strontian and district compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson ., [Before 1928.]
File
Identifier: MS.473
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning folklore, traditions etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Anecdotes of dogs, in William Laidlaw's hand, with additions by Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.3937
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:"Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog", in William Laidlaw's hand, with many alterations by Sir Walter Scott. Printed under that title in “Blackwood's Magazine”, January 1818, page 417. (Folio 1.)Stories used, but not printed exactly, in the article, 'Alarming Increase of Depravity among Animals', in “Blackwood's Magazine”, October 1817: story of an innocent gentleman who acquired a thieving dog, in Scott's hand (folio 7; “Blackwood's Magazine”,...
Dates:
1817-1818.
'Anecdotes of the olden time, chiefly of Edinburgh', by Henry Mackenzie, including 'Egotisms'., 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.2537
Scope and Contents
Henry Mackenzie gives notes, 1824, on folio iv, explaining why he mutilated the manuscript and referring, apparently, to MS.645.
Dates:
1824.
Collection of humorous anecdotes, undated, compiled by Catherine, Duchess of Cleveland., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10226
Collection of poems, songs, letters, anecdotes, sermons, and prayers 'by David Dun, late Teacher of Dancing', Edinburgh., 1828-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.2715
Scope and Contents
Two dates, 1828 and 1829, are given.
Dates:
1828-1829.
Collection of sayings and anecdotes entitled 'Collectanea Apophthegmatum', compiled by Lauchlan McIntosh.
File
Identifier: MS.9612
Scope and Contents
The entries are collected chiefly from classical sources and are arranged, alphabetically as far as possible, under an alphabetical sequence of headings. The collection is followed by a description of Jerusalem before its destruction by Vespasian (folio 130), a descriptive list arranged alphabetically of the places mentioned in the Old Testament, with their distances from Jerusalem in English miles (folio 138), and a similar list of the places mentioned in the New Testament, preceded by...
Dates:
1646.
Commonplace book in the hand of William Clydesdale., 1823, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.2746
Scope and Contents
William Clydesdale was a Glasgow character and a fellow student of Thomas Muir, the political reformer (note inside front cover).
The commonplace book contains satirical, comic, and reflective verses by Clydesdale in Scots and English, some dated 1823, a few anecdotes, and annotations by Peter Mackenzie, author of ‘The life of Thomas Muir’ (Glasgow, 1831).
Dates:
1823, undated.
Commonplace Book mainly containing anecdotes and newspaper cuttings, formerly in the Library at Newbattle Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14610
Dates:
Circa 1789.
Commonplace book of George Lewis Augustus Douglas containing "jeus d'esprit", poems, anecdotes, riddles and drawings., 1799, 1808, 1819, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.10363
Dates:
1799, 1808, 1819, undated.
Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, containing parodies on Virgil, miscellaneous sayings and anecdotes, reminiscences of Lord Kames, and Biblical and Classical notes., 1791.
Item
Identifier: MS.25429
Dates:
1791.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
Commonplace-book of William Drummond of Hawthornden, commencing with a collection of anecdotes, pasquils, jests, epitaphs, impresas, etc., entitled 'Democritie, a labyrinth of delight'., First half of 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2060
Scope and Contents
The notes, 'Letters of W. Drummond to sundries all his owen hand. Sept. 16, 1693', and 'Manie of them printed, 1703', on folio 103, which was found loose in this volume, seem to refer to the contents of MS.2061.
Dates:
First half of 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., 1142, 1163, 1752-1783.
File
Identifier: MS.5757
Dates:
1142, 1163, 1752-1783.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Literary manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., chiefly dated 1777-1787, some in the hand of Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian.
Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., 1724-1787.
File
Identifier: MS.5758
Dates:
1724-1787.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Literary manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., chiefly dated 1777-1787, some in the hand of Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian.
Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., chiefly dated 1777-1787, some in the hand of Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian., 1142, 1163, 1724-1787.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5757-5758
Scope and Contents
Included are occasional writings by the Marquise de Boufflers, Madame du Deffand and their circle, by C J Fox, Temple Luttrell and others, seven poems by Mrs Anne Hunter, political ballads, and anonymous verse.
Dates:
1142, 1163, 1724-1787.
Exercise book containing notes in Sir Walter Scott's hand of information regarding Napoleon's abdication in 1814, supplied by Marshal Macdonald in conversation in 1826., 1826.
Item
Identifier: MS.887
Scope and Contents
With some anecdotes of Napoleon.
Dates:
1826.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Material for the 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte' by Sir Walter Scott.
Humorous stories and anecdotes, largely Scottish, with occasional extracts from contemporary books, reviews, and newspapers, all 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.9317
Scope and Contents
Internal dates in the manuscript are from 1740-1762. Newspaper-cuttings, pasted on the boards and binding pages, are dated 1779-1780.
Dates:
1740-1780.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, titled, 'M.S.S. Jacobite II'., 1700-1869, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1696
Dates:
1700-1869, undated.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10342-10370
Dates:
1752-1885, undated.