Memorandums.
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
Letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Letters and memoranda, 1785-1794, written by the descendants of peers attainted in the 1715 Jacobite rising in an attempt to recover their titles and estates.
Most of the letters and memorandums, 1785-1794 are from the Earl of Mar, addressed apparently to the Earl of Seaforth (folios 13-67).
Also included are notes and copies of opinions, 1761-1820, on the succession to five peerages attainted in the 1715 and 1745 risings (folios 68-137), and miscellaneous notes, undated, on peerages (folios 1-12).
Letters and other documents received by the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville.
Letters and other papers of Sir Walter Scott and his family.
Letters and papers, chiefly addressed to Raimond, Baron de Fourquevaux, concerning his mission to Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland.
Letters and papers of Charles Robert Cockerell, relating to the National Monument of Scotland on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh
Charles Robert Cockerell was the architect of the National Monument of Scotland. See also MS.352 (ii), and article by R T Skinner in the ‘Scotsman’, 3 December 1930 (MS.638, folio 1).
Letters of Matthew Urlwin Sears to Messrs A and C Black and Co, with a letter of Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the hand of Charles Beecher, to Messrs A and C Black and Co, inserted into a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853).
Manuscript of the first part of 'The howdie', an unfinished story by John Galt.
With the manuscript are the pages of "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine" containing the first part of the story, a typescript of the second part, and a memorandum on the history of the manuscript by Sir Robert Simpson, the latter reprinted and supplemented by William Roughead in his edition.
Memoranda and accounts of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register, concerning the estates of Clathick, Ryding, Garscadden and Killermont.
Most of the entries concern building and farming operations and agreements with tenants. There are also references to coal-mining on the Ryding estate, and records of crops at Killermont.
Memoranda for David Hume’s ‘History of England’, not in Hume’s handwriting except the titles which are written and signed by him.
Memoranda of a son, probably Andrew, of Andrew Massie, Regent of Philosophy at Edinburgh University and Advocate, recording important events in his own life and those of his family from 1672 to 1712, including all births and deaths.
The writer’s mother was Margaret, daughter of James Cheape, 1st of Rossie, and he married his cousin Isabella, daughter of Henry Cheape, 2nd of Rossie.
At folio 2 is an account of the last words, mainly biographical, of a dying lady, following a leaf inscribed 'Memoria D. Annae Lesleae'. There is a list of ladies' garments at folio 17. At the end the writer speaks of his conduct in the matter of private religion (inverted folio 1).
Memorandum addressed to David Reid, Commissioner of Customs, concerning the suppression of smuggling in Wigtownshire, Ayrshire, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
The memorandum is chiefly concerned with the acquisition of land in Wigtownshire, Ayrshire, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, on which to build accommodation for Revenue officers and troops.
"Memorandum Book concerning the Earl of Kinnoulls [sic] Estate in Perthshire".
Memorandum book of James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline
Memorandum books of the Faculty of Advocates Library.
Memorandum by Thomas Carlyle on Annandale cows and milk production.
Memorandum concerning the homage of K. Alexʳ. 3d. of Scotland to K. Edward 1st of England
'Memorandum for the Committee on Scottish Administration, February, 1937', a typescript copy of Sir George Macdonald's memorandum on the Scottish Office, with his recommendations for its reorganisation.
The report of the Committee was published in October 1937 (Command paper 5563).
"Memorandum of [James] Thomson the poet and his associates communicated by Mr [William] Robertson of Richmond in Surrey... to the Earl of Buchan", in the hand of David Stewart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan.
Memorandum of Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingden, concerning seven engravings representing the death of Mary Queen of Scots.
Made to accompany appropriate music.
Memorandum on Jacobite intrigues in Sweden.
The manuscript signed by Johan Friedrich Osthoff, describes intrigues conducted in the interest of Prince James Stuart in 1719, with especial reference to a bogus expedition to Madagascar. The persons chiefly active were one Morgan, Captain Galloway of the frigate ‘Revolution’, Colonel Sebach, Clincowstrom (Klinckowstrom), and Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish Minister in London.
Microfilm of collection of rough notes or memoranda on various legal topics in the hand of Francis Jeffrey.
Microfilm of dispatches, memoranda and enclosures of or to the 1st Earl of Minto.
The contents are as follows:
Various dispatches and memoranda, August 1809, sent by John Malcolm to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the army mutiny at Masulipatam (MS.11657);
Copies of dispatches and enclosures, 12 October-27 December 1809, of the 1st Earl to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11662);
Copies of enclosures, 15 April 1810, in dispatch of the 1st Earl of Minto to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors (MS.11663).
Microfilm of fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, an account of the castes in Malabar by Alexander Walker; and, Memorandums, [circa 1800], of Alexander Walker concerning Malabar.
The contents are as follows:
Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume I by Alexander Walker (MS.13810);
Fair copy, [1821, or after], of ‘Jadee Jathu’, volume II by Alexander Walker (MS.13811);
Memorandum, [circa 1800[, of Alexander Walker on the 'origin of money in Malabar' (MS.13825);
Memoranda, 1801, of Alexander Walker on land tenures and on the state of slavery in Malabar (MS.13826).