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Extracts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Discrete bibliographical items which though once part of a larger whole (e.g., a periodical issue) have been disbound in order that may stand alone. Distinguished from ""excerpts"" and ""offprints"" which are printed separately, in that extracts were once physically part of a larger whole.

Found in 193 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of a report, 1786, to Cardinal Giovanni Archinto concerning the supply of priests in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9766
Scope and Contents

With extract of letter, 1784, from bishops [? George] Hay, Alexander MacDonald and [John?] Geddes to Leonardo Antonelli.

Dates: 1784-1786.

Correspondence, 1871-1891, undated, and papers, 1872-1889, undated, concerning James Augustus Grant's genealogical researches., 1871-1891, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.17942
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1871-1891, undated.

Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

Correspondence of Emile Joseph Dillon and of other family members., 1881-1930, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12382/24-28
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1881-1930, undated.

Correspondence of Emily Joseph Dillon, family members, and of various other correspondents., 1871-1939.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12382/1-28
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1871-1939.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.5
Scope and Contents Sibbald intended that his work (which is not his revised edition of and supplement to Camden`s `Description of Scotland’) should both give a fuller account than the descriptions written for his `Atlas Scoticus` (Adv.MS.15.1.1), and clarify Camden`s text. He included material on topography, flora and fauna, industry, agriculture and outstanding buildings. The description of Shetland (which is not that published by Sibbald in 1711) was based on accounts sent to him by ministers there (folio...
Dates: Circa 1695.

Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Maitland., 1815-1839.

 Series
Identifier: Dep.353/1-11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates: 1815-1839.

Diaries, notes and typescripts, relating to 'Brenva', by Graham Brown., 1907, 1927-1933, undated.

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Identifier: Acc.4338/191(1-10)
Scope and Contents Containing:(1) extracts from diary of climbing in Alps 1907(2) copy of diary of Brenva climb 1927(3) copy of diary of Brenva climbs 1928(4) copy of diary of Brenva climbs 1929-31(5) typed notes of ascent of Mont Blanc de Courmayeur 1928(6) typed and printed copies of T G Brown ‘Two new ascents of Mont Blanc’ with other papers 1927-9(7) note of conversations at the Alpine Club 1932-3(8) typescript...
Dates: Majority of material found within 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.

 File
Identifier: MS.50171
Scope and Contents The articles and papers are arranged chronologically.Circa 1925.‘Psychoanalysis in Relation to Attitudes of Doctors’.Manuscript notes, circa 1925, of an article, ‘Psychoanalysis in Relation to Attitudes of Doctors’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. The article was submitted to the ‘Edinburgh Medical Journal’, but would appear not to have been published. Folios 1-6.Folios 1-2 loosely enclosed folios 3-6.1927.‘Religion...
Dates: 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.

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Identifier: MS.50173
Scope and Contents The articles and lectures are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1928.‘The Study of Mental Abnormality: Prolegomena to the Establishment of a National Laboratory for this Purpose’.Annotated typescript, 1928, of an article, ‘The Study of Mental Abnormality: Prolegomena to the Establishment of a National Laboratory for this Purpose’, contributed to the...
Dates: 1928-circa 1930.

Early 16th-century manuscript, 'Extracta ex variis cronicis Scotiae'.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.13
Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland containing extracts from Scottish chronicles, primarily drawing upon the works of Fordun and Bower, but also including independent entries. The main text is the work of one scribe, and written in a cursive script with 22 lines to a page. Additions and insertions are in another hand of the 16th century.The manuscript has been dated to the end of the 15th century by the folio catalogue, which was probably compiled by Cosmo Innes. Borland...
Dates: Early 16th century.

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.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.16
Scope and Contents Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...
Dates: Early 17th century, before 1637.

‘Edinburgh burgeschip and gildrie’: Extract ‘de libro consilii burgi de Edinbrugh, per me Gulielmum Stewart Iuniorem scribam dicti burgi deputatum’., 12 December 1572.

 Item
Identifier: MS.189
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 12 December 1572.

Edinburgh (High Street) charters, and miscellany.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.5946-5990
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1511-1832.

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.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15152-15169
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1834-1921, undated.

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.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.5970
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

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.

Dates: 3 December 1633.

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.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2538
Scope and Contents

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!'

Dates: 1828, undated.

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.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15094
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 11 November 1600.