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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3637 Collections and/or Records:

Copies of dispatches from the Foreign Secretary to Sir Charles Whitworth (later Earl Whitworth), Envoy at St Petersburg, received by the 1st Earl of Minto., 1799-1801.

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Identifier: MS.11242
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: 1799-1801.

Copies of dispatches sent by the 1st Earl of Minto from Vienna to the Foreign Secretary., July-September 1801.

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Identifier: MS.11257
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: July-September 1801.

Copies of dispatches to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors from the Bengal Government, May-June, 1806, and the Bombay Government, 11 July, 1806., 1806.

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Identifier: MS.11279
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: 1806.

Copies of documents concerning the Commission for Valuation of Teinds.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.7
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Copies or styles of deeds more or less connected with tythes and patronages; (ii) Decisions and proceedings of the Commission for Plantation of Kirks, 1631-1673.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (Jac.V.2.5).

Dates: 17th century.

Copies of documents relating to roads in the Highlands.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.19
Scope and Contents Copy of a memorial to the Treasury, 1799, by Robert Anstruther, Inspector of Military Roads, asking that the majority of the roads constructed in the Highlands continue to be maintained at public expense (folio 1), and two copies (folios 5, 8) of a letter, 1796, of Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-General) Henry Rudyerd to the Secretary of the British Society for extending of the Fisheries and improving the Seacoasts of the Kingdom, reporting on the road recently constructed from Contin to...
Dates: 1796, 1799.

Copies of early poems of Sir Walter Scott in the hand of Henry Mackenzie., [Before 1831.]

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Identifier: MS.2536
Scope and Contents

The poems copied are 'The Erle-King', the Morlachian fragment, 'The Mermaid' (translated from Goethe's 'Fischer' and apparently unpublished), 'Glenfinlas', 'The Eve of St. John', and 'The Fire-King'. They contain variations from the printed versions.

Dates: [Before 1831.]

Copies of enclosures in dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors., 15 April 1810.

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Identifier: MS.11663
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: 15 April 1810.

Copies of entries for poetry prizes judged by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1972, 1977.

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Identifier: MS.26623
Scope and Contents

Contains the following entries. (i) The Grierson Verse Prize of Edinburgh University, 1972 (folio 1); (ii) The Radio Forth Jubilee Poetry Competition, 1977 (folio 19). The names of the competitors have not been indexed.

Dates: 1972, 1977.

Copies of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions in parish churchyards in Lanarkshire, compiled, with introductions, photographs, lists of contents, and indexes, by John Smith, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

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Identifier: MSS.2238-2244
Scope and Contents

John Smith is the author of "Monumental inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh", edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, in 'Scottish Record Society' series (Edinburgh, 1915, 1919).

Dates: 1915-1919.

Copies of excerpts of letters to Dr J D Ross Watt, and miscellaneous articles on subjects relating to the bagpipes., 1880-1913, undated.

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Identifier: MS.9621
Scope and Contents

The contents are arranged as follows:

Copies of excerpts of letters, 1911-1913, undated, from various correspondents, including Dr Charles Bannatyne, John Grant, and Dr K N MacDonald, to Dr J D Ross Watt, 1911-1913, undated (folio 1);

An article, undated, on canntaireachd possibly by Alexander K Cameron (folio 90);

Miscellaneous copies of printed articles, 1880, undated, on subjects relating to the bagpipes (folio 111).

Dates: 1880-1913, undated.

Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., 1142, 1163, 1752-1783.

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Identifier: MS.5757
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are occasional writings by the Marquise de Boufflers, Madame du Deffand and their circle, by C J Fox, Temple Luttrell and others, seven poems by Mrs Anne Hunter, political ballads, and anonymous verse.

Dates: 1142, 1163, 1752-1783.

Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., 1724-1787.

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Identifier: MS.5758
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Included are occasional writings by the Marquise de Boufflers, Madame du Deffand and their circle, by C J Fox, Temple Luttrell and others, seven poems by Mrs Anne Hunter, political ballads, and anonymous verse.

Dates: 1724-1787.

Copies of French and English poems, anecdotes, etc., chiefly dated 1777-1787, some in the hand of Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian., 1142, 1163, 1724-1787.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5757-5758
Scope and Contents

Included are occasional writings by the Marquise de Boufflers, Madame du Deffand and their circle, by C J Fox, Temple Luttrell and others, seven poems by Mrs Anne Hunter, political ballads, and anonymous verse.

Dates: 1142, 1163, 1724-1787.