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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:

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Dolphin to Donne., 1814-1916.

 File
Identifier: MS.40338
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name. Additional letters have been added at the end of this sequence.Dolphin, Helen Douglas.Letter, 1915, of Helen Douglas Dolphin to John Murray IV. Folio 1.Dommonard, E.Letter, 1894, of E Dommonard to John Murray IV. Folio 1a.Donald Macbeth Artists Illustrators Ltd.Letters, 1916, of Donald Macbeth Artists Illustrators Ltd, signed by...
Dates: 1814-1916.

'List of books and pamphlets relating to Orkney and Shetland' by James W Cursiter (Kirkwall, 1894), interleaved, with manuscript and printed addenda by James Shand.

 File
Identifier: MS.9159
Scope and Contents

The very extensive notes include extracts from printed catalogues, and inserted at the end of the volume (folio 40) is a letter from James Cursiter to James Shand, 1921, acknowledging receipt of bibliographical notes by [Gilbert] Goudie.

Dates: 1894-early 20th century.

Literary and cultural papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell., 1740-1864.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.4990-5005
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Dates: 1740-1864.

Manuscript containing a 15th-century list of benefactors, prayers, obituaries, and rental of the Hospital of St Anthony, Leith; with a 16th-century extract from a rental of Newhaven.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.5
Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland containing Church offices; a calendar; obituaries of benefactors; a rental of the hospital of St Anthony, Leith; and a rental of Newhaven.The manuscript appears to be the work of two separate hands executed at different times. The earlier part of the work is of the 15th century. From folio 19r onwards the hand can be attributed to the mid-16th century.The contents are as follows:Flyleaves with shelfmark inscriptions. Folios...
Dates: 15th century-1st half of 16th century.

Manuscript drafts and typescripts of papers by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn: ‘What is the Super Ego?’; ‘The Super Ego Conception’; ‘Modern Views about Mental Disease’; ‘Some Points in the Analysis of a Woman without Genitalia’: and, ‘The Super Ego and Unconscious Sense of Guilt’., 1929-1931.

 File
Identifier: MS.50176
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically.1929.‘What is the Super Ego?’.Manuscript draft and publicity, 1929, of a paper, ‘What is the Super Ego?’ read at the British Psychological Society, Scottish Branch meeting, 2 November 1929. Folios 1-36.Manuscript draft, 1929, of Fairbairn’s paper, ‘What is the Super Ego?’. Folios 1-34. Typescript and press cutting, 1929, of publicity for Fairbairn’s paper, ‘What is the Super Ego?’. Folios...
Dates: 1929-1931.

Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.

 File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794. The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates: ?1794-1813.

Manuscript of part 3 of ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1943-1946, 1951-1957.

 File
Identifier: MS.50198
Scope and Contents Another copy of the manuscript, the typescript portions of which are carbon copies of those in MSS.50203-50204. Like the other copy this is a composite of articles in typescript and offprint arranged in the sequence in which they were to be published in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’. Each of the articles has been amended by Fairbairn in preparation for its inclusion in ‘Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality’.Part 3.Amended offprint from...
Dates: 1943-1946, 1951-1957.

Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.

 File
Identifier: MS.5207
Scope and Contents

With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.

Dates: [Circa 1831.]

Manuscript, undated, of 'Notes on Patrick Geddes as man of action', by Edward McGegan, with some printed extracts from works of Geddes., [1932, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.21204
Scope and Contents

Edward McGegan was a colleague of Geddes from the 1880's and later became Assistant Secretary of the Outlook Tower, Edinburgh.

Dates: [1932, or before.]

Manuscripts, typescripts, and related working papers of other creative works of Ian Rankin., 1977-2016, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.50516-50523
Scope and Contents

This series contains manuscripts and typescripts of, and associated working papers for, various other creative works of Ian Rankin. The working papers include development and editorial notes. Administrative papers and correspondence relating to some of the works are also included.

Dates: 1977-2016, undated.

Minutes and other material concerning foreign missions of the Free Church of Scotland., 1880-1928.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7915-7916
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group:

At the Disruption of 1843, the missionaries in India of the Church of Scotland and in Kaffraria of the Glasgow Missionary Society adhered, almost without exception, to the Free Church. New missions were later founded in Nagpur (1845), Jaina (1855), Santalia (1871), Livingstonia (1875), and Aden (1886). The union in 1876 with the Reformed Presbyterian Church brought with it the New Hebrides mission.

Dates: 1880-1928.

Minutes and other material concerning foreign missions of the Free Church of Scotland., 1880-1928.

 File
Identifier: MS.7915
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Printed minutes, 1880-1883, 1886-1887, 1896-1897, 1899-1900, 1924, undated, of the Foreign Mission Committee (folio 1);(ii) Printed report, 1877, of the Foreign Mission Committee (folio 50);(iii) Extracts, 1895, 1905, undated, from the Proceedings of the General Assembly (folio 93);(iv) Minute, 1885, of the Presbytery of Glasgow (folio 96);(v) Minute, 1928, of the Central Fund Committee (folio 97);...
Dates: 1880-1928.

Miscellaneous charters.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.A.1-46