Statements.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: Formal accounts of facts or events, especially as given to the police or in court. Source: Concise Oxford English dictionary. 11th ed. (Oxford, 2004).
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
‘Abridged Statement of the Decay— Revival—Improvements—and New Model of the Pantheon Society. 1st September, 1791’, by John Penney, Treasurer of the Society., 1791.
Item
Identifier: MS.186
Dates:
1791.
Article on romance by Sir Walter Scott for the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'., 1824.
Item
Identifier: MS.23050
Scope and Contents
Includes a portrait of Sir Walter Scott.
Dates:
1824.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., 12th century-1553.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Confirmation by William I of gift by Hugh and William Giffard to the church of St. Andrews of the church of Tealing. Kincardine, 1189x1195. (Hugh de Roxburgh, chancellor; no date). Printed in ‘Regesta regum Scotorum’, volume ii, number 358.(ii) Confirmation, [1173-1178], by William I of gift by Walter, son of Philip to the church of St. Andrews of the land of Adhebrecces. Kinghorn, 1173x1178. (D.G.: Richard, Bishop of Dunkeld). Printed...
Dates:
12th century-1553.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
Copy of a statement by King Umberto II of Italy on the abolition of the monarchy in Italy, drawn up at the request of Lieutenant-Colonel G R Gayre while writing his ‘A case for monarchy’., 1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.20765, folios 209-236
Dates:
1957.
Correspondence, 1858-1898, and papers, 1748-1914, relating to game and horses., 1748-1914.
File
Identifier: MS.13328
Correspondence and management statement on the role of the newly established SNH., 1990-1992.
File
Identifier: Acc.13542/1109
Correspondence and memoranda concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to Lord William Seymour, General Officer Commanding British forces in Canada., 1898-1900.
File
Identifier: MS.12578
Scope and Contents
The papers and correspondence chiefly concern relations between Lord William Seymour and General Sir Edward Hutton, General Officer Commanding Dominion Militia, and to a lesser extent the raising of Canadian troops for South Africa. Appended (folio 291) is a memorandum prepared by Seymour in ?1903 giving a statement of his position in Canada, and of his disagreements with Hutton and the 4th Earl of Minto.
Dates:
1898-1900.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to Canada.
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Papers relating to the 4th Earl of Minto's tenure of office as Governor-General of Canada.
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to military affairs in Canada.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning Douglas Young., 1942, 1944-1948.
File
Identifier: Acc.10090/15
Scope and Contents
Containing:(i) Evidence before the Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire, 23 April 1942.(ii) Verbatim report of trial of Douglas Young at the High Court, Edinburgh, 6 October 1944, and copy of a statement on the trial.(iii) Correspondence of and to Douglas Young relating to the Scottish National Party matters and mostly with Robert Douglas McIntyre, 1942, 1944-1948.(iv) Letters of Douglas Young to Jock Mackie, Kirkcaldy, relating to Young's...
Dates:
1942, 1944-1948.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
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Scottish National Party files of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
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Scottish National Party files of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
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Correspondence and papers of the Scottish National Party.
Correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto, including letters from Henry Brougham and Sir John Sinclair, on the Farmers' Property Tax and on the current agricultural and industrial depression., 1807-1823.
File
Identifier: MS.12121
Dates:
1807-1823.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Political and diplomatic correspondence and papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers addressed to the 2nd Earl of Minto on particular topics of political interest.
Correspondence and papers of the 3rd Earl of Minto concerning the Forbes Mackenzie Act., 1857-1878.
File
Identifier: MS.12356
Dates:
1857-1878.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1814-1891), 3rd Earl of Minto.
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Political correspondence and papers of and concerning the 3rd Earl of Minto.
Correspondence between Sir James Wordie and Rear-Admiral Noel Wright concerning Wright's attempt to promote a search in a previously overlooked part of the Arctic for relics of Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845-1848., 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.9514
Scope and Contents
Enclosed with Noel Wright's first letter is a typescript of a statement by him entitled 'Recent Arctic searches initiated by Rear-Admiral Noel Wright'.
Dates:
1955.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the Wordie Collection of printed books, being correspondence and papers of Sir James M Wordie, together with manuscript material owned by him.
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Correspondence between Sir James Wordie and Rear-Admiral Noel Wright; and press cuttings with notes communicated by Wordie on geological features of places in Antarctica.
Correspondence of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates.
File
Identifier: F.R.339r/20
Dates:
1827-1842.
Eyewitness examinations for the enquiry into the murder of John Porteous following the Porteous Riots.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14608
Dates:
1736-1737.
Files of David Murray, relating to the Iron and Steel Control of the Ministry of Supply., 1940-1943.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.7915 Box 10(1)-(5)
Financial papers, and papers of and concerning the Commercial Department., 1806-1813.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11608-11613
Dates:
1806-1813.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Bengal Government.
Financial papers concerning William Nassau Elliot as Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany., 1761-1764.
File
Identifier: MS.12888
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Treasury letters, 1764, relating to demands by the House of Commons to see papers concerning the supply of goods to the army in Germany (folio 1); (ii) Commissariat statements, 1761-1762 (folio 7); (iii) Commissariat statements and reports to Sir James Cockburn and the Prince of Brunswick (folio 27); (iv) Miscellaneous commissariat papers, 1762 (folio 41); (v) Miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1761-1762 (folio 50).
Dates:
1761-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning William Nassau Elliot of Wells.
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Correspondence and papers of William Nassau Elliot of Wells as Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany.
Financial papers of the Company of Scottish History., 1965-1985.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9951/35-72
Dates:
1965-1985.
Legal, financial and other papers concerning James Augustus Grant., 1827-1913, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17933
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Papers concerning James Augustus Grant's service in India, 1853-1884, undated, supplementary to MS.17908, folios 50-108, including a list of property lost during the Mutiny and general statements of his service (folio 1);
(ii) Papers concerning Africa, undated, supplementary to MS.17922, including a list of the contents of John Hanning Speke's cases at Zanzibar and a copy of an agreement between Alexander Low Bruce and James Augustus Grant junior concerning...
Dates:
1827-1913, undated.
Legal papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/1
Dates:
1710, 1812-1829.
Legal papers of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates against T G Repp, a library assistant who brought an action against the Faculty of Advocates in 1834.
File
Identifier: F.R.342
Dates:
1819-1838.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Huber to Hudson., 1821-1918.
File
Identifier: MS.40587
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name. Further correspondents have been added to the end of the sequence.Huber, Victor Amie.Letters, 1844, 1846, 1849 and undated, of Victor Amie Huber to John Murray III. Folios 1-14.Hubert Rutherford Brown.Letter, 1918, of Hubert Rutherford Brown to John Murray IV. Folio 15.Huchon, Rene Louis.Letters and postcards, 1901-1906, of Rene...
Dates:
1821-1918.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Guillemard, J. to Gunther., 1807-1942.
File
Identifier: MS.40498
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Guillemard, John Lewis.
Letter, 1829, of John Lewis Guillemard to John Murray II. Folios 1-2.Guinness, Richard Seymour.Letter, 1906, of Richard Seymour Guinness to John Murray IV. Folio 3.Guinness, Robert.Letters, 1894, of Robert Guinness to John Murray IV. Folios 4-7.Guise, Laura Lilian.Letter, 1913, of Laura Lilian...
Dates:
1807-1942.
List of the printed books (amongst which are recorded a few modern manuscripts), illuminated manuscripts, and paintings owned by William Finlay Watson, bookseller, Edinburgh, which he intended to bequeath to the National Galleries for Scotland., 1881-1882.
Item
Identifier: MS.7150
Scope and Contents
At the end of the list (folio 52) is a statement signed by his executors (his sisters and brother-in-law) certifying that the Trustees of the National Galleries had selected the illuminated manuscripts (some of which are MSS.7122-7149) and the paintings. The list was compiled after Watson's death and written out by Alexander Dowell, auctioneer, Edinburgh, who recorded the Trustees' refusal of the printed books and their acceptance of the illuminated manuscripts and paintings at folios 38...
Dates:
1881-1882.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
Minutes, letters, and accounts concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library regarding the proposal to build a new corridor.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/3
Dates:
1826-1831.