Indexes. Reference sources.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists, usually in alphabetical order, of persons and/or subjects referred to in documents, with location of references thereto.
Found in 524 Collections and/or Records:
Legal papers of Arthur Burnett., 1821-1828.
File
Identifier: MS.24613
Scope and Contents
The papers include notes of cases from Lord Monboddo's session papers, notes on cases at which Arthur Burnett was present, and an index to a collection of cases.
Dates:
1821-1828.
Letter-book containing copies of outgoing official correspondence, from the time when Sir Thomas John Cochrane was Governor of Newfoundland; with an index., 1828-1832.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2365-2366
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1828-1832.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Letters and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as Governor of Newfoundland.
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Letter-books containing copies of outgoing official correspondence, from the time when Sir Thomas John Cochrane was Governor of Newfoundland.
Letter-book containing copies of outgoing official correspondence, from the time when Sir Thomas John Cochrane was Governor of Newfoundland; with an index., 1832-1835.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2367-2368
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1832-1835.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Letters and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as Governor of Newfoundland.
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Letter-books containing copies of outgoing official correspondence, from the time when Sir Thomas John Cochrane was Governor of Newfoundland.
Letter book of Mackenzie and Paterson, writers and bankers in Inverness, recording financial and legal affairs of the firm and its clients.
File
Identifier: MS.10325
Dates:
1819-1823.
Letter-book, titled 'Squadron letters sent', number 1, containing copies of letters sent during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station; with index., 1842-1844.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2466-2467
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1842-1844.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
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Letter-books, titled 'Squadron letters sent', with indexes, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station.
Letter-book, titled 'Squadron letters sent', number 2, containing copies of letters sent during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station; with index., 1844-1846.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2468-2469
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1844-1846.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
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Letter-books, titled 'Squadron letters sent', with indexes, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station.
Letter-book, titled 'Squadron letters sent', number 3, containing copies of letters sent during Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station; with index., 1846-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2470-2471
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1846-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
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Letter-books, titled 'Squadron letters sent', with indexes, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station.
Letter-book with index containing copies of the 1st Earl of Minto's letters, including private letters and some letters written as Governor-General., 1806-1807.
File
Identifier: MS.11282
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:
1806-1807.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto chiefly as President of the Board of Control.
Letter-books containing copies of outgoing official correspondence, from the time when Sir Thomas John Cochrane was Governor of Newfoundland., 1825-1835.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.2363-2368
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1825-1835.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Letters and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as Governor of Newfoundland.
Letter-books, titled 'Squadron letters sent', with indexes, from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service at the East India Station., 1842-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2466-2471
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1842-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Letters addressed mostly to Dr Robert Anderson, editor of ‘The Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain’, ‘The Edinburgh Magazine’, etc. (there are a few to Bishop Thomas Percy and the Earl of Buchan).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.17
Scope and Contents
Anderson`s correspondents include many of the prominent men of his time, especially in the literary and antiquarian worlds; and the main topic is literature. The arrangement of the letters is due to Anderson’s son-in-law, Dr David Irving (Keeper of the Advocates’ Library): it is first of all by size, quarto letters in Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.16, octavo in Adv.MS.22.4.17 (for the folio letters, see Adv.MS.22.3.11), then the writers are roughly grouped according to their origin or occupation, and...
Dates:
1760-1830.
Letters and postcards of Dorothea [Dorothy] Richards, née Pilley, journalist and climber, to Janet Adam Smith, also containing letters and postcards of Richard Luckett to Janet Adam Smith about Dorothea, the Alpine Club, and enclosing a typed index for 'The diaries of Dorothea Pilley'., 1984-1987.
File
Identifier: Acc.13861/128
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence, personal and literary papers, published articles and reviews, mountaineering papers, and photographs, circa 1911-2013, of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999), author, journalist and mountaineer.
Dates:
1984-1987.
Letters, engravings and drawings concerning Robert Burns; with index., 1788-1889, 1914, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15953-15954
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Cowie manuscripts include the final version of ‘The gentle shepherd, a Scots pastorall comedy’ by Allan Ramsay (MS.15972).
Dates:
1788-1889, 1914, undated.
'Letters to India Governments' of Sir Thomas John Cochrane, sent during his service at the East India Station, with index., 1842-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2420-2401
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...
Dates:
1842-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Thomas John Cochrane as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station.
Letters to Thomas Percy (mostly of and concerning James Grainger); letters to Robert Anderson from, among others, Percy, Alexander Fraser Tytler, and Thomas Park; and letters to the Earl of Buchan from Thomas Park., 1760-1830.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Anderson`s correspondents include many of the prominent men of his time, especially in the literary and antiquarian worlds; and the main topic is literature. The arrangement of the letters is due to Anderson’s son-in-law, Dr David Irving (Keeper of the Advocates’ Library): it is first of all by size, quarto letters in Adv.MSS.22.4.10-22.4.16, octavo in Adv.MS.22.4.17 (for the folio letters, see Adv.MS.22.3.11), then the writers are roughly grouped according to their origin or occupation, and...
Dates:
1760-1830.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.3
Scope and Contents
In 1630 the armorial was formally recognised by the Privy Council as an official register and a note to that effect, signed by Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon, and Thomas Drysdale, Islay Herald, is on folio 110 verso.The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 663).The contents are as follows:(i) Latin verses on and a painting of the royal arms (folio 1 verso).(ii) Arms of mythical...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
List of Gaelic place-names in Bute compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, with an index and historical references., [Before 1928.]
Item
Identifier: MS.374
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of Gaelic place-names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, usually taken from the Ordnance Survey maps, arranged in columns, with the form of the name either as pronounced by reliable Gaelic speakers or from historical sources.
List of Gaelic place-names in Fife, Kinross, Clackmannan, and part of Perthshire, compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, with an index., [Before 1928.]
Item
Identifier: MS.376
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of Gaelic place-names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, usually taken from the Ordnance Survey maps, arranged in columns, with the form of the name either as pronounced by reliable Gaelic speakers or from historical sources.
List of Gaelic place-names in Skye compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, with an index., [Before 1928.]
Item
Identifier: MS.375
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of Gaelic place-names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson, usually taken from the Ordnance Survey maps, arranged in columns, with the form of the name either as pronounced by reliable Gaelic speakers or from historical sources.
List of Gaelic technical terms concerning grazing and agriculture, interleaved with pages of 'An-Deo-Greine'; with index., 1906-1909.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.445A-B
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
1906-1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Vocabularies, glossaries, and other material compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of and essays concerning Gaelic technical terms.
List of place-names, etc., in the poems of Robert Mackay ('Rob Donn'), and an index of place-names in Gaelic literature, compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.388A-B
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
List of Scottish Baronetcies, compiled by John Philp Wood., 1818-1829.
File
Identifier: MS.1877
Scope and Contents
The list begins on folio 1. The volume also contains copies of correspondence on the Pretyman Baronetage, 1818 (folio 103), the Nicolson Baronetage, 1828-1829 (folio 116), and the succession to the attainted Viscount Galway, 1828 (folio 118).
The paper is watermarked 1826.
Dates:
1818-1829.
List of the place-names of Islay compiled from the Book of Islay and other sources by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson., [Before 1928.]
Item
Identifier: MS.386B
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[Before 1928.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
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Lists of the place-names of Islay compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Lists of ballads, broadsheets and chapbooks, copied, circa 1818, from Joseph Ritson’s transcript of ‘a large sheet in ye folio of Old Balads belonging to the British Museum’, and from other sources., [Circa 1818.]
File
Identifier: MS.178
Scope and Contents
At the beginning is, ‘An index to the Miscellany Collection of a great number of ... (mostly Scots) Ballads & songs with other verses & poems both pious historical & jococe. The whole composed by diverse Scots & English poets’, in an early 18th century hand.
At the end is a printed list of juvenile works published by J Harris, St Paul’s Churchyard, 1817.
Dates:
[Circa 1818.]
Lists or indexes compiled by John Murdoch Henderson, with lectures by Henderson on musical subjects and other miscellaneous material., Mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.21710
Scope and Contents
The lists or indexes are of the following material:(i) Sheet music of Scottish interest (folio 1);(ii) Printed compositions, 1930, by James Scott Skinner (folio 62);(iii) The collections, 1931, printed by the Gow family (folio 69);(iv) Scottish Country dances with tunes and alternatives found in various collections published from 1924 onwards (folio 78);(v) Tutors and collections of bagpipe music, 1948 (folio 83);(vi)...
Dates:
Mid 20th century.