Memoranda Book.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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.
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.