Microfilms.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Fine-grain, high-resolution film in roll form containing images of documents, reduced in size from the original.
Found in 2420 Collections and/or Records:
Letters, to Richard Oswald, of his wife, from various places in North Germany., 1761-1763.
Item
Identifier: MS.15547 [Mf.MSS.26]
Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection., 14th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Dates:
14th century-19th century.
Microfilm and partial photocopy of transcripts of letters of Marie de Rabutin Chantal to her daughter.
File
Identifier: Acc.8186- is now Rare Book Division.
Dates:
1671-1696.
Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.
Series
Identifier: MS.10775
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(1) Journal, 11 November 1853-26 May 1856. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 4.
(2) Journal, 2 August 1858-9 January 1859. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 6.
(3) Journal, 1 December 1859-11 June 1860, 3 December 1860-23 March 1861.
See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham,...
Dates:
1853-1874.
Microfilm and photographic slide copies of the correspondence, papers and drawings of James Bruce of Kinnaird.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4490/1-12
Dates:
1757-1854, undated.
Microfilm, chiefly of correspondence of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.513-515
Dates:
1843-1900.
Microfilm chiefly of letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott., [1792-1831.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1143
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1792-1817, chiefly of Sir Walter Scott (MS.2525);
Letters, 1818-1823, chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and a fragment in Scott's hand of an article which was published in the ‘Edinburgh Weekly Journal’, 7 February 1821, over the signature 'A Modest Whig'. (MS.2526);
Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, 1823-1831, undated (MS.2527).
Dates:
[1792-1831.]
Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.915
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);
Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).
Dates:
[1890-1948.]
Microfilm comprising a copy of the surviving portion of the journal, 1799, of Agnes Ranken, kept during her voyage to India; a copy of MSS.8832-8863: Journal, 1801-1811, of Jessy Harden; and the Register of Documents compiled by Arundel S Clay., 1799-[20th century].
File
Identifier: MS.8873 [Mf.MSS.143]
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-[20th century].
Microfilm copies of a manuscript catalogue of tracts on finance, trade and commerce.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.501-507-[Acc.10150]
Dates:
1500-1814.
Microfilm copies of card index to business books in the John Murray Archive.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.597-608-[Acc.12617]
Dates:
1944.
Microfilm copies of correspondence of W D Petrie relating to his service as medical officer in Malawi.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.535-539-[Acc.11042]
Dates:
1938-1957
Microfilm copies of eighteenth century manuscripts in the possession of Sir Mark Dalrymple of Newhailes.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.4-11-[Acc.2076]
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm copies of letter books of Charles Elliot.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MS.549-553-[Acc.11536]
Dates:
1774-1782.
Microfilm copies of records of Westerkirk Parish Library.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.548 and Mf.MSS.557-560-[Acc.11243]
Dates:
1793-1974.
Microfilm copies of Stuart Papers from the Denys Eyre Bower Collection, Chiddingstone Castle, Kent.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.511-513-[Acc.10390]
Dates:
Undated.
Microfilm copies of the unpublished section of Pellechet-Pollain, "Catalogue General des Incunables".
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.14-24-[Acc.2095]
Dates:
circa 1886.
Microfilm copies of the war diary of the Inns of Court Regiment.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.508-510-[Acc.10317]
Dates:
1940-1945.
Microfilm copies of volumes one and two of the minute book of the Committee of Leadhills Library.
Series
Identifier: Mf.MSS.526-527-[Acc.10279]
Dates:
1821-1896.
Microfilm copy of a letter of Marcel Proust to C. K. Scott Moncrieff, and of two letters of Robert Proust to J. M. Scott Moncrieff.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.447-[Acc.2616]
Dates:
1922-1931.
Microfilm copy of a manuscript of James Oswald "Song Book", thought to be in Oswald`s hand; and a copy of a manuscript of flute sonatas of Robert Valentine.
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.556-[Acc.11563]
Dates:
1731.
Microfilm copy of album of letters of Scottish missionaries in the New Hebrides, mostly Agnes and William Watt, to the Glasgow Foundry Boys Religious Society
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.525-[Acc.10755]
Dates:
1869-1880.
Microfilm copy of correspondence and papers of and collected by Colin D I G Forrester concerning genealogical, biographical and other topics.
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.555-[Acc.10334]
Scope and Contents
Contains the following:1. Letters to Colin D I G Forrester from A J Stewart (1) 1970, Eric Linklater (1) 1971, Sir James Fergusson (2) 1967, 1971, Nigel Tranter (3, and card) 1970, 1991-2, F Marian McNeill (3) 1970-1, and Sir Andrew Noble (3) 1970-1.2. Letter 1970, of Joan Cranfield Monypenny of Pitmilly, wife of Rear-Admiral Vernon Donaldson, concerning appointment as ‘forester’ of ‘Forest of Pitmilly’.3. Letters, 1965-75, 1980, of Rev Professor W R...
Dates:
1953-1991, undated.
Microfilm copy of correspondence of S R Crockett with T Fisher Unwin, A P Watt and others.
Item
Identifier: Mf.MSS.500-[Acc.10124]
Dates:
1892-1916.