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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:

Notebook, dated December 1747-April 1748, of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, auditor of exchequer, containing extracts from books, notes of conversations, memoranda, and essays on friendship, love, and good nature., 1747-1748.

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Identifier: MS.17797
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 1747-1748.

Notebook of Canon Andrew John Young containing excerpts and brief quotations from philosophical and theological works., [After 1965.]

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Identifier: MS.19765
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Much of the material consists of notes made by Canon Andrew John Young of his reading. Some of the notebooks include page references to other volumes of notes which are not in this collection.

Dates: [After 1965.]