Instructions. Document genre.
Found in 200 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of the official report, 31 January 1725 [i.e. 1726], by Major-General (later Field-Marshal) George Wade, of his proceedings in disarming the Highlands; followed by copies of several papers.
Copy, possibly the holograph, of the report by Thomas Tucker on the customs and excise of Scotland.
Correspondence and papers, 1821-1896, undated, of the Honourable George Henry Douglas, Admiral, nephew of Lord Strathnairn., 18th century, 1821-1896, undated.
A few papers, eighteenth century, whose connection with the Rose family is not apparent, have been placed at the end of this volume (folio 91).
Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]
Correspondence and papers concerning the publication of ‘The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough’, edited by General Sir George Murray., 1843-1845.
The collection consists of letters, orders, reports, and maps relating to Murray’s military career, to his official and diplomatic duties and to his literary activities. It is arranged in nearly chronological order illustrating the various periods of his career.
Despatch book of Howietoun Fishery., 1880-1882.
Despatch book of Howietoun Fishery., 1881-1884.
Despatch books of Howietoun Fishery, Stirling recording deliveries of trout, with instructions and comments.
'Directions for Bleaching Coarse Linen & Diaper.', 1754.
The cover is endorsed 'Bletching BLC' (i.e. British Linen Company).
'Directions for Bleaching,' undated., ?18th century.
Lord Milton was one of the original appointees.
Duplicated copies of instructional sheets for lettering of Edward Johnston, which were used in his classes at the Royal College of Art and the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts., 1899-1908, undated.
Examples of lettering and correspondence of the calligrapher Edward Johnstone (1872-1944).
Fragments of manuscript written by Sir Walter Scott in a very unsteady hand, comprising an inscription to the 4th Earl of Hopetoun, slightly longer than that used for the monument erected in St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1834., [?1831-1832.]
Included are instructions for copying a manuscript, possibly one in the Royal Library, Naples; one leaf of manuscript concerning Rhodes and the knights of Malta; and unfinished lines entitled 'A dream of midsummer'. (folio 79).
Instructions, 1579, of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Knight Lyon King at Arms, to heralds, and a minute-book of executions, 1608-1609, by Thomas Lamb, Messenger-at-arms.
Instructions by Cecilia Combe as to the disposal of her effects after her death., 1861.
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Instructions for hospitals, lists of personnel, various returns, and other miscellaneous papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane's service at the East India Station., 1842-1847.
Instructions for making fireworks, probably intended as part of a scientific work.
The text refers to figures which are not included. The manuscript also contains household and pharmaceutical recipes (folio 52), and a list of books and equipment of an army officer (folios 1 inverted).
'Instructions for our right trustie & right well beloved cousin & councellor our treasurer of our kingdome of Scotland', superscribed by King Charles 1, given at Newcastle., 29 June 1646.
'Instructions for Sr. William Fleming knt’, superscribed by Charles II., 1650.
Instructions for William Dunlop from James Colleton., 1688.
The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.
Instructions, given at St. Germains, 24 February 1708, and superscribed by James Stuart, the 'Old Pretender', to an unspecified person 'going by Our Order to Scotland'., 1708.
'Instructions issued by the Governor General Consequent to the Treaty Negotiated with Runjeet Sing and Shah Shooja-ool-Moolk and Concluded at Lahore on the 26th June, 1838' (India Board, April 1839)., 1839.
Instructions of George III to the Justices of the Peace of the County of Peebles., 1775.
A miscellany of charters and other formal documents from the collection of John Smith, Edinburgh. Most of the documents are deeds relating to land tenure in East Lothian, particularly to lands and properties in Dunbar.
Instructions of Sir Alexander Erskine of Cambo, Lyon King of Arms, to officers of arms., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.