Notes.
Found in 5131 Collections and/or Records:
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing Lewis collections., 1804-1856, undated.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing Lewis collections., 18th century-19th century, 1950-1980.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing various notebooks and papers., 1934, 1973-1982, undated.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of 19th century papers., mid-late 19th century.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Box of various papers, possibly for the 'Alpine journal'., 1882, 1918-1951, undated.
Box of various papers, possibly for the 'Alpine journal', containing various lists, notes and other related material., 1861-1870, 1892-1898, 1939-1935, undated.
"Bradford's photographs of Greenland, arranged as illustrations of 'Frost and Fire' [(Edinburgh, 1863)] by J. F. Campbell, June, 1871.", 1871.
Photographs of ice formations, etc., taken by William Bradford on his visit to Greenland in the 'Panther', 1869 - see Isaac J Hayes, ‘The land of desolation’ (London, 1871) - and presented by him to John Francis Campbell, with notes by Bradford, 1871.
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon.
There are some notes and additions.
Brief and fragmentary diaries kept by John Hill Burton at various intervals between 1827 and 1863., 1827-1863.
The volumes consist of a diary of a Highland tour, 1827, and six other diaries of short jottings, chiefly records of appointments and correspondence.
Brief entries of accounts, 1869, and personal notes, 1880, of Lord Cleveland., 1869, 1880.
'Brief sketch of a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, commencing in the year 1814', by Joseph Train.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Business papers of John Blythe Kinross., 1927-1984, undated.
Calendar containing a large number of English saints., 15th century.
Calendar of Holyrood Abbey: a bifolium containing the entries for July to October.
The entries are written in red, blue, green, and black. There are several additions and deletions in later hands, and a sixteenth-century marginal note concerning writs of property.
Calendars of Florence Marian McNeill, with notes of engagements., 1956-1957.
Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.
Calligraphic transcript, 7 August 1782, by John McOmie of the copy made by James Scott, minister of East church, Perth, of the charter granted 14 April 1498 to the Carthusian monastery, Perth, by James Stewart, Earl of Buchan (created 1469), of his garden or orchard without the Spey (folio 4).
The main transcript is preceded by transcripts by McOmie of Scott`s account of the circumstances of the donation (folio 1) and Scott`s presentation note, 19 July 1782, to David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (succeeded 1767) (folio ii).
‘Canntaireachd: articulate music’ by John Francis Campbell (Glasgow, 1880), with manuscript notes by Alexander K Cameron., 1880.
'Canon sive regula vitæ’ by George Sibbald of Rankeillour, in the hand of, and with notes by, Sir Robert Sibbald.
‘Capitulatio…Caroli VI’ (The Hague, 1713), with manuscript notes by Johann Jacob Vitriarius.
Carbon typescript of 'The Mystery of Gorbals Terrace', a four act play by Alexander McArthur (1901-1947).
The play was originally written in 1944-1945. This typescript contains manuscript corrections by the author, Alexander McArthur and a number of notes stating that a copy sent to Unity Theatre, Glasgow, was not returned, and implying that it was used by Robert McLeish as a source for his 'Gorbals Story'.
Carmichael and Gordon papers.
Case papers relating to the litigation in the Court of Session, 2nd Division, between Sir William Elliott and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1819-1829.
Except for reports of speeches of the judges (MS.11933, folios 81, 142) and 'Answers for Lord Minto' to the notes of the accountant under remit (MS.11934, folio 139), these are printed Court of Session papers.
Case papers relating to the litigation in the Court of Session, 2nd Division, between Sir William Elliott and the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1826-1829.
Except for reports of speeches of the judges (MS.11933, folios 81, 142) and 'Answers for Lord Minto' to the notes of the accountant under remit (MS.11934, folio 139), these are printed Court of Session papers.
Cash-book, 1866-1889, of the Incorporation of Sailors of Fisherrow and Musselburgh, or Fisherrow Sailor’s Society., 1866-1908, undated.
Also included are printed rules, 1883, and a letter and notes on the books, 1908, undated (after folio 21).