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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.
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Papers concerning the history of the church of Kirkurd by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.956
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers concerning the history of the church of Manor by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.957
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers concerning the history of the church of Newlands by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.958
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers concerning the history of the church of Skirling by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.959
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers concerning the history of the church of Tweedsmuir by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.960
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers concerning the history of the church of Walkerburn by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.961
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
Papers concerning the Jacobite rebellion, collected by John Blair, ‘Vol. I’., 1715-1716, 1745-1747.
File
Identifier: MS.487
Scope and Contents
Includes papers, manuscript and printed, relating to the election of the Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh by a poll vote, 1746 (folios 1-11, 29); excerpts from printed sources relating to the trial of Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1747 (folios 14-24, 29); ‘Particulars of 1715 and 1716 from Rae, Patten, and Tindal’ (folio 27); similar ‘Particulars’ relating to 1745 and 1746, from printed sources (folio 28 verso); printed pamphlets and broadsides relating to the...
Dates:
1715-1716, 1745-1747.
'Papers connected with the Report of Councils Committee and connected notes, etc, part II' (Calcutta, 1906)., 1906.
Item
Identifier: MS.12611
Scope and Contents
The notes include excerpts from earlier proceedings relating to these subjects, notes on the workings of comparable federal systems, especially in Germany, Austria, and Fiji, newsaper comments, and memorials from interested organisations.
Dates:
1906.
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 India.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration.
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Printed summaries of the 4th Earl of Minto's administration: Home Department and related topics.
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Printed summaries of reports, correspondence, and other papers relating to Indian Council reforms.
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Report and papers of the committee established by the 4th Earl of Minto in August 1906.
Papers, including material concerning the supply of ordnance, ammunition and stores for the use of troops on Amboina, 1810, and letters of David Burges at Shahabad, Bihar, concerning military roads, 1813., 1808-1813.
File
Identifier: MS.11604
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:
1808-1813.
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.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the Military Department.
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Letters and papers concerning the Military Department.
Papers, notes, and correspondence of James Glen on subjects relating to Sir Walter Scott, with copies of and extracts from original letters, accounts, and other papers., 1921-1935, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2533
Scope and Contents
Among the subjects dealt with are the date of Sir Walter Scott's birth, his brothers and sisters, his visit to Fettercairn in 1796, Lady Scott's birth and family, Scott's financial affairs, and the story of his drive to Polton in 1825.
Dates:
1921-1935, undated.
Papers of Alexander Walker during his retirement, including copies of earlier correspondence., 1783-[circa 1825], undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.13720-13740
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1783-[circa 1825], undated.
Papers of, and letters of, and to, Sir Charles Elliot., 1844-1873, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21229
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Extracts from the logbook, 1844, of H.M.S. Spartan (folio 1);
(ii) Letter, 1845, of Admiral Sir Francis W Austen ordering Sir Charles Elliot to return to England (folio 7);
(iii) Letters, 1864-1866, to Elliot concerning his command on the South American station and the war between Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (folio 9);
(iv) Copy letters, 1864-1866, undated, of Elliot, extracted from a letter book, concerning his command on the South American station (folio...
Dates:
1844-1873, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot Murray Kynynmounds, Earls of Minto, of related families, and of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, whose career was associated with that of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Papers and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Charles G J B Elliot, Admiral of the Fleet.
Papers of Duncan Macrae reflecting his service in India and life in Bute after his retirement in 1868., 1850-1898, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15923
Dates:
1850-1898, undated.
Papers of George Chalmers on the history of printing., ?1st quarter of 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.5-81.9.7
Dates:
?1st quarter of 19th century.
Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on America, Australasia, with miscellaneous material., 1766-1796, undated.
File
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) and his family.
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Literary and philosophical papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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Papers of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, on anthropology and travel, consisting to a great extent of notes taken from published works.
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.
File
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.
File
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.
File
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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum.
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.
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.
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Papers on coinage concerning the Bengal Government, and correspondence and papers concerning the administration of the Cadet College, Barasat, and the College at Fort William.
Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition., 1811.
File
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.
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.
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Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition.