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Plans. Reports.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Organized and often detailed proposals that lay out strategies and schemes of action for something to be done.

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous letters and documents.

 Series
Identifier: MS.14835
Dates: 1708-early 19th century.

Notebook of James St Clair, containing copies of various reports., [1745, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.25685
Scope and Contents

The notebook contains a copy of the 'Ordres de Marches issued to the British Army in Flanders in 1745’ (folio i). Also copies of two reports written by St Clair: 'Report to His Majesty concerning the Ground for Encamping the Troops between Highgate and Whetstone and a report of the different ways leading to London' (page 95); 'Report to His Majesty in relation to the County of Kent' (page 100). With four plans for encampments pasted in (inverted folios 1-3).

Dates: [1745, or after.]

Route descriptions for the ascent of the north face of the Eiger., 1966.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14376/1
Scope and Contents

There are here two descriptions of the route taken by the British-American team.

The first is a typed route description, annotated by Dougal Haston.

The second is a manuscript route description of the First Band section written by Layton Kor.

Dates: 1966.

Sermons of Alexander Carlyle., 1746-1803, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.23786-23909
Scope and Contents They consist of sermons preached before and after the Sacrament (MSS.23786-23805), series of sermons on the Sermon on the Mount (MSS.23806-23816), on the Lord's Prayer (MSS.23817-23825) and on righteousness (MSS.23826-23834), sermons on death (MSS.23835-23840), sermons preached on public occasions (MSS.23841—23863), some of which were, printed subsequently, and sermons preached on various topics (MSS.23864-23906), followed by drafts, fragments and summaries of sermons and schemes of services...
Dates: 1746-1803, undated.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents

The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).

Dates: 17th century.

“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of Scottish historical documents, for the most part copies from the Cotton Library, originally labelled ‘Kirk manuscripts B’., 17th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.19
Scope and Contents A collection copied by various hands without sufficient accuracy, possibly for Matthew Crawford.The contents are as follows: (i) Letter, 3 May 1582, of Sir John Foster to Secretary Walsingham. (ii) Advertisement out of Scotland, 22 June 1582. (iii) Letter, 20 August 1582, of the Queen of England to the King of Scotland. (iv) Depositions of George Douglas sent the 14 September from Stirling, and received the 20 September at Windsor. ‘Septr. 28 1582’. (v) The heads whereof George...
Dates: 17th century.

Synopses of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’., 1932-1934, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26060
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Two synopses of a history of America before Columbus, 1932 (folio l); (ii) Plan of a work on the conquest of the Maya, undated (folio 21); (iii) Synopsis of a history of mankind, 1934, with a letter from C S Evans, the publisher (folio 25); (iv) Synopsis of 'Memoirs of a materialist', an autobiographical work, 1934 (folio 36); (v) Synopsis of 'The Story of religion', undated (folio 43); (vi) Notes from a sequel to ‘Stained Radiance’, undated (folio 54); (vii)...
Dates: 1932-1934, undated.

Various papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1683-1770.

 File
Identifier: MS.1493
Scope and Contents

Contains the following papers: Advocates, affairs of the Faculty and their Library, 1683-1770; Abroath and affairs of local merchants, 1702-1707; Bank of England, note of staff and salaries, 1756; Caputh Church, 1721-1770 (see also MSS.1237, 1294); Carron Company, 1768 (see also MSS.1241-1244); Plan and description of a coalseam, undated.

Dates: 1683-1770.