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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of a larger work, such as a literary work or motion picture, reproduced or excised without further change from their original context.

Found in 686 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates: Late 17th century-?1829.

Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on America, Australasia, with miscellaneous material., 1766-1796, undated.

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Identifier: MS.24536
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of North America and South America', 1790. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 261. (ii) ‘Of the Indians in North America', 1769, based on an account by the Jesuit missionary, P J A Roubaud. (Folio 36.) Monboddo number 88. (iii) Copy of a letter of Thomas Campbell, 1767, concerning an embassy to the Creek Indians in Alabama (Folio 56.) Monboddo number 116. (iv) Papers concerning Patagonia, Peru and the Antilles, 1766, undated. (Folio 60.) Monboddo numbers 82, 84, 87,...
Dates: 1766-1796, undated.

Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on anthropology and travel, consisting to a great extent of notes taken from published works., 1766-1796, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.24535-24536
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The literary and philosophical papers consist of essays, drafts and notes by Lord Monboodo, with a few related papers. Throughout his life, Monboddo was in the habit of revising his work, frequently adding to an existing essay or incorporating a few pages from it into a later piece, with consequent repagination. (For his methods of composition, see Cloyd, ‘James Burnett, Lord Monboddo’ 1972, page 41.) Some of his longer additions ran to several pages, which he called ‘Papers apart’; these...
Dates: 1766-1796, undated.

Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on population., 1774-1796, undated.

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Identifier: MS.24534
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Essays on population in ancient and modern times, 1779, 1787, undated. (Folio 1.) Includes Monboddo numbers 276, 197. (ii) Notes and excerpts from printed works, 1774-1796, undated. (Folio 50.) Includes Monboddo number 198. (iii) Statistics of baptisms in Kincardineshire parishes for 1686 to 1778, with other miscellaneous papers, 1778-1780, undated. (Folio 59.) Monboddo numbers 177, 216.

Dates: 1774-1796, undated.

Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on Scottish, English and Irish history., 1765-?1794, undated.

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Identifier: MS.24532
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Two papers on the ancient history of Scotland, 1765, undated. (Folio 1.) The second ends with the royal pedigree in Gaelic which occurs in Adv.MS.72.1.1, folio 1 recto. Monboddo numbers 171, 173. (ii) 'Of the succession in the kingdom of Scotland', undated. (Folio 41.) Monboddo number 174. (iii) Transcripts, undated of charters and formal documents. (Folio 47.) (iv) 'Observations upon Lord Lyttelton's History, and the constitution of the antient Parliaments...
Dates: 1765-?1794, undated.

Papers of Robert Moir., 1537-1862, undated.

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Identifier: MS.21775
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) A psalm setting by Robert Moir written on two leaves cut out of MS.21774 after folio 17 and pasted to a larger sheet of stiff paper. (Folio 1.)(ii) Extracts from newspapers and other periodical publications concerning musical topics published between 1852 and 1862 (and some from earlier sources), written on twenty-five printed bifolia (from a larger number) containing a prospectus and a subscription list for ‘Beauties of the Bible’ by...
Dates: 1537-1862, undated.

Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale concerning Lord Charles Hay of Linplum., 1756-1760.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14512-14515
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1756-1760.

Papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal., 15th century-1927, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21174-21191
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates: 15th century-1927, undated.

Papers on coinage concerning the Bengal Government, and correspondence and papers concerning the administration of the Cadet College, Barasat., 1807-1813.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.11635-11636
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1807-1813.

Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition., 1811.

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Identifier: MS.11620
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Papers relating to claims of the military on Amboina (folio 1); (ii) Letter of Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, Chief Secretary to Government, to Hugh Hope in Java (folio 116); (iii) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of Directors concerning John Richardson, Political Agent in Bundelkhand, with an excerpt of a private letter from Richardson to the Chief Secretary (folio 121); (iv) Copy of a dispatch from the Bengal Government to the Court of...
Dates: 1811.

Papers relating chiefly to the election of Scottish Representative Peers.

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Identifier: MS.1026
Scope and Contents

Some letters to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville), 1783-1807, unconnected with election, possibly indicate that these are part of the Melville papers. The papers consist of minutes of elections, lists of peers and their votes, protests, excerpts from ancient records, proposals as to methods of electing, and other papers.

Dates: [?1703]-1771, 1783-1807, undated.

Papers, undated, of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound concerning philosophy, chronology, and miscellaneous papers., Early 18th century.

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Identifier: MS.12813
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of the Laws of Evidence' (folio 1); (ii) Philosophical tract concerning justice and injustice (folio 18); (iii) Tract concerning the existence of witches (folio 22); (iv) 'Extract from Gerards Herbal' with related articles (John Gerard, ‘The Herball’, edited by Thomas Johnson, (London, 1636) (folio 28); (v) Review of Jean Baptiste Du Halde's ‘The General History of China’ (London, 1736) (folio 38); (vi) 'From the travels of the Abbé [François] Sevin just now...
Dates: Early 18th century.

Photocopies of documents formerly at Yester House., 1673-1739.

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Identifier: MS.14810
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Poem in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale: ‘On the death of Lady Sophia Hay who dyed at Yester the 29th of April 1678 and of her age the 13th yeare’ (folio 1);(ii) Extract of the blazoning of the coat of arms borne by Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet of Linplum, 10 February 1673 (folio 4);(iii) Newsheet, Edinburgh 1715, concerning fighting between the Jacobites and the forces commanded by the Duke of Argyll (folio 5);...
Dates: 1673-1739.