Memoranda Book.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:
'Mem[orandu]m of sundries to be left w[i]th Mr Burt' by Thomas Graham., 13 October 1786.
Item
Identifier: MS.16412
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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:
13 October 1786.
Memorandum pad of the 4th Earl of Minto., [Circa 1910.]
Item
Identifier: MS.12798
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates:
[Circa 1910.]
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 Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845-1914), 4th Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning the 4th Earl of Minto relating to India.
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Miscellaneous papers of the 4th Earl of Minto relating to his time in India.
Microfilm of journals and memorandum books of, and, letters chiefly of, to, or concerning, Robert Chambers.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.847-849
Dates:
1832-1879.
Microfilm of memorandum books of Robert Chambers., 1844-1858.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.848
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Memorandum book, 1844-1846 (Dep.341/41);
Memorandum book, 1848-1858 (Acc.13178, formerly Dep.341/42).
Dates:
1844-1858.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 5., 1658-1812.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1317
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miniature portrait of Marjory Fleming, inscribed on a label on the back of the case 'Pet Marjory, from her sister Miss Fleming, 1880' (MS.1096);Diaries, [before 1812], of Marjory Fleming (MSS.1097-1099);Letters and poems of Marjory Fleming; letters of her mother, and of her cousin Isabella Keith, 1811-1812, undated (MS.1100);'Extracts from Mrs. Fielding's journal while we were abroad together in 1781', made by the Honourable...
Dates:
1658-1812.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Notebooks of the 3rd Earl of Minto., 1859-1883, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12323-12328
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Hugh Elliot Murray Kynynmound was the eldest surviving son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1814 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Hythe, 1837-1841, for Greenock, 1847-1852, and for Clackmannan and Kinross, 1857-1859; served as chairman of the Lunacy Commission, Scotland, 1857. As an active back-bench MP and peer, who was closely related to some of the leading political figures of his time - he was, for example, the...
Dates:
1859-1883, undated.
Notes of engagements and accounts, entered by Harriet Siddons in ‘The Edinburgh Memorandum-Book’., 1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.1935
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1832.
Papers and correspondence of the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower., 1802-1866.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9872/58-100
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates:
1802-1866.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.328- is now Acc.13138.
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers relating to the work of R Addison Smith as Treasurer of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14279
Dates:
1886-1912.
Personal papers of the family of Erskine of Alva., 17th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5112-5126
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.