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Found in 3965 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace books of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd., 1907-1970, undated.
Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.
Commonplace books of William Soutar containing miscellaneous notes, ideas and odd poems., 1918-1926.
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Communication files of the Gude Cause project with the City of Edinburgh Council., 2008-2009.
Communication files of the Gude Cause project with the City of Edinburgh Council, some with the Events Planning and Organisational Group., 2008-2009.
‘Compendium chymicum 2d. D. Nicolaum Lemery. Inchoatum Parisiis Augusti 18th 1692’, being notes on pharmaceutical preparations with an 'Index remediorum'.., 1692.
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
`Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi` by Peter of Poitiers, Chancellor of Paris., 13th century.
Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and miscellaneous law notes., Late 17th century-early 18th century.
The contents are as follows:
(i) Compendium relating to kirklands, teinds, stipends, etc., and containing abstracts, practiques, copies of decisions, and correspondence of the reign of Charles I, commencing with a list of the religious houses in Scotland, with their district, order, and founder (folio i);
(ii) Miscellaneous law-notes, citing decisions from 1666 to 1675 (page 295) with an index (page 551).
'Continuation of notes of a visit to Venice, May 1877', by Ann Parminter Pringle, née Black., 1877.
Contract, schedule, scripts and notes for Grampian TV programme ‘Walking Back to Happiness’ featuring Tom Weir., 1998.
Weir produced a high volume of written and spoken outputs during his career. The papers here relate to some of the results of that work, including his contributions to radio.
Contracts and other work-related papers of Jan Struther., 1933-1995, undated.
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council., 1401-1570.
Copies, 18th century, of records of Parliament and of the Privy Council., 1570-1602.
Copies, [?1845-1847], of documents, 1489-1663, and notes etc., 1845-1847, of John Riddell, concerning the successful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to that title., 1489-1663, 1845-1847.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Copies and excerpts of correspondence, April-July, and October 1783, of James Stuart, chiefly in his own hand, with notes., 1783.
Copies and notes from official records and Newcastle newspapers relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections., 16th century-19th century.
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Copies and notes from official records, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections., 16th century-19th century.
Transcripts and translations of Ch.2045-2047 will be found on folios 14-37. Among the documents copied is the will of Alison Cockburn, author of 'The flowers of the forest' (folio 47).
Copies by Archibald Constable, titled 'Private', of correspondence, notes and accounts, relating chiefly to Sir Walter Scott and some of his works., 1821-1822.
Copies made by the Reverend James Scott, probably between 1774 and 1788, of the Perth registers of marriages, baptisms and deaths, 1560-1582, supplemented by material taken from other records for dates thereafter., 1560-1671.
Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., Late 18th century.
Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., Late 18th century.
Copies of charters chiefly to ecclesiastical foundations at Perth, and notes, undated, on the history of the Burgh compiled by Dr Patrick Nisbet for Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1209-1214, late 18th century.
Includes a list of events in Perth, 1209-1214, and a table of tides there in 1210.
Copies of correspondence and other documents of James Stuart., 1783.
Copies of 'Higden Mappaemundi', numbers 2-18, with 'Higden Cartography', being a typed list of the maps and notes on differences., 14th century-17th century.
Copies of letters, 1802-1806, of Charlotte Edgeworth to her brother and sisters, and of a description by Henry Edgeworth of a journey to Edinburgh, October 1803., 1802-1806.
Two family letters, notes, and copies of poems in various hands have been inserted on folios 20-46.
Copies of letters and papers concerning the formation of the Irish Treasury Board and the procedures to be adopted by it, with notes on the procedures of the British Treasury. Volume I., 1793-1794.
The volumes have the book-plate of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, and, as he was secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1794-1795, were presumably compiled on his instructions.