Extracts.
Found in 193 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of a report, 1786, to Cardinal Giovanni Archinto concerning the supply of priests in Scotland.
With extract of letter, 1784, from bishops [? George] Hay, Alexander MacDonald and [John?] Geddes to Leonardo Antonelli.
Copy of an extract of an opera of Simone Mayr, "Ginevra di Scozia".
Correspondence, 1871-1891, undated, and papers, 1872-1889, undated, concerning James Augustus Grant's genealogical researches., 1871-1891, undated.
The correspondence begins on folio 1, and the papers on folio 74. Included are notes and histories by James Augustus Grant amd others, and the results of searches in various records, and copies of documents.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Correspondence and papers of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning Charles Roberts and the Scottish Historical Library.
Correspondence of Emile Joseph Dillon and of other family members., 1881-1930, undated.
These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.
Correspondence of Emily Joseph Dillon, family members, and of various other correspondents., 1871-1939.
These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.
Deeds and registered extracts of William Gibson Trust., 1888-1905.
Contains 9 items.
Descriptions of the shires of Scotland by Sir Robert Sibbald, interleaved with the Scottish section (colls. 877-960) of Edmund Gibson`s edition of William Camden`s ‘Britannia’ in English.
Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Maitland., 1815-1839.
Diaries, notes and typescripts, relating to 'Brenva', by Graham Brown., 1907, 1927-1933, undated.
Drafts and typescripts of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘Psychoanalysis in relation to attitudes of Doctors’; ‘Religion and fantasy’; ‘A case of religious fantasy’; and, ‘Head – aphasia’., Circa 1925-1927.
Drafts and typescripts of articles and papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘The Study of Mental Abnormality: Prolegomena to the Establishment of a National Laboratory for this Purpose’; ‘Dissociation and Repression’; and, notes for tutorials and lectures by Fairbairn., 1928-circa 1930.
Drawings of masons' marks, made or collected by Charles S S Johnston, architect, with letters, notes, and excerpts on the subject; the whole arranged by Professor W B Stevenson..
Early 16th-century manuscript, 'Extracta ex variis cronicis Scotiae'.
Early 17th-century manuscript of copies of various historical and legal papers made for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington, with material covering the years 1400-1626.
‘Edinburgh burgeschip and gildrie’: Extract ‘de libro consilii burgi de Edinbrugh, per me Gulielmum Stewart Iuniorem scribam dicti burgi deputatum’., 12 December 1572.
The manuscript records a meeting of the baillies, councillors, and deacons (named) in the ‘clerks chalmer’, which ratified an act of 8 November 1564 (quoted), prescribing the admission-dues of burgess-ship and guildry.
The records for 1572 are missing.
The modern transcript bound with the manuscript is inaccurate.
Edinburgh (High Street) charters, and miscellany.
Comprised of:
Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;
Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.
An inventory is available.
Edited extracts from the journals of Murdoch MacDonald, compiled by Donald John MacDonald.
Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich., 1834-1921, undated.
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.
Extract, 1832, from the protocol book of Alexander Guthrie, recording sasine, 3 December 1633, of the Crosshouse and other properties, given by Alexander Makartney, procurator for the Provost of Edinburgh and others, Governors of Heriot`s Hospital, to Robert Meiklejohn, Dean of the Skinners` Gild. (29)., 3 December 1633.
Comprised of:
Ch.5946-5975: a group of thirty deeds and notarial extracts formerly part of a larger collection of documents, numbered between 1 and at least 33 (but originally not chronologically arranged), relating to properties in the High Street, Edinburgh;
Ch.5976-5990: a group of mostly unrelated documents of a miscellaneous nature arranged in a separate chronological sequence.
An inventory is available.
Extract by Henry Mackenzie from a review of ‘The man of ton' [by Sir John Dean Paul], in "Blackwood's Magazine", June 1828., 1828, undated.
Includes Henry Mackenzie's criticism of "Blackwood's magazine" (folio 1), and the remark (folio 6) 'How idle I must have been when I took the trouble of writing out this!'
Extract from `Regstrum Secreti Sigilli` of charter by James VI to James Hamilton, son of John, Marquess of Hamilton, of the abbacy of Arbroath., 11 November 1600.
Some of the items in this series belong in other parts of the Saltoun collection, but their relationship was not discovered until after the arrangement had been finalised; others may have been acquired by various members of the family.
Extract from the Book of Adjournal, concerning the trial in 1527 of John Colquhoun of Luss for theft., After 1527.
Extract of Blazoning of Coat of Arms of Sir William Murray 1st Baronet, of Ochtertyre., 6 March 1673.
This document is fully dated Edinburgh, 6 March 1673.