Notes.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 3963 Collections and/or Records:
Biographical items of Moultrie R Kelsall., 1941-1942, 1952-1952, 1958, 1961, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.7716/5
Scope and Contents
Containing:
Diary notes, November 1952.
Diary notes, undated.
Sheet giving brief details of career.
Account of the coffee house of Moultrie R Kelsall, 1961.
Article by David Tait on Moultrie R Kelsall, undated.
Pages relating to programmes Moultrie R Kelsall was involved with between November 1941 and October 1942.
Pages relating to the files 'Hour of 13', 1951, and 'The Inn of sixth happiness' draft novel, 1958.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-1942, 1952-1952, 1958, 1961, undated.
Biographical material concerning Tipu, Gangádhar Shastri and Kemal-ud-din-Hussain Khan, including draft notes., 1st quarter of 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13794A-13794B
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection covers Alexander Walker's military and administrative service in the East India Company in great detail from circa 1790 to 1801, notably in Malabar and then in Gujarat, where he was Political Resident at Baroda, until he left India in 1810. He came out of retirement to govern St Helena from 1822 to 1828, The importance of the collection lies in the detailed administrative content of Walker's correspondence and memoranda, particularly for the Gujarat period, a continuing...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Biographical note on John Howell, dated 11th June 1855, with amendments in the hand of Lord Murray., 1855.
Item
Identifier: MS.19739
Biographical notes and passages, undated, compiled by Elizabeth S Haldane concerning her brother Viscount Haldane., [After 1880]-1937, 1973.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20227-20229
Dates:
Majority of material found within [After 1880]-1937, 1973.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Notebooks and other papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane, preceded by correspondence of and papers concerning his mother, Mrs Mary E Haldane and his maternal uncle, Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and followed by notebooks and other papers of his sister Elizabeth S Haldane.
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Papers of Elizabeth S Haldane.
Biographical notes of John Purves on a number of English authors of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries., [Circa 1912.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15599
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
[Circa 1912.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves containing notes on English language and literature.
Biographical notes of John Purves on English figures of the 17th and 18th centuries., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15856
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing biographical notes.
Biographical notes of John Purves on Italian 16th century authors., [?1920-?1940.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15726
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The notes dated from the appointment of John Purves as lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University in 1920.
Dates:
[?1920-?1940.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
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Notebooks, undated, of John Purves, probably belonging to the period 1920-1940.
Biographical notes of John Purves on several 18th and 19th century Scottish scholars, with extracts from the autobiography, 1695, of Sir Robert Sibbald., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15855
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing biographical notes.
Biographical notes of Tom Weir relating to Mike Tomkies. , Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.13059/240B
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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.
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
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Literary and broadcasting papers of Tom Weir.
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Papers relating to short stories, articles, press, radio and TV scripts of Tom Weir
Biographical notes, undated, of John Purves, for the most part on 17th and 18th century literary figures., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15635
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves containing notes on English language and literature.
Biographical notes, undated, of John Purves on 17th century English visitors to Holland., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15824
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on Dutch literature.
Biographical notes, undated, of John Purves on 18th and 19th century English visitors to South Africa, with extracts from South African periodicals., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15805
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on South African literature.
Biographical notes, undated, of John Purves on Bossuet, Fénelon, Joubert and Chateaubriand., Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15818
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the notebooks contain notes on a variety of subjects, only the more important of which are mentioned in descriptions.
Dates:
Early 20th century-[before 1962.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves containing material on French literature.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning A-Ga., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22130
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning Ga-MacD., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22131
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning MacE-Man., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22132
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie, subjects beginning Mar-Z., Late 19th century-?1956.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1025
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical notices of Scottish and other pipers, with notes on persons, places and things connected in any way with piping, compiled by John MacLennan with additions and corrections by Ian H Mackay Scobie: subjects beginning Mar-Z., Late 19th century-?1956.
File
Identifier: MS.22133
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection was begun in the late nineteenth century and continued in the twentieth, being entrusted to Ian Scobie in 1944 (MS.22130, folio 2). The latest entry appears to be dated 1956. The entries are written on folio sheets. Press cuttings and other printed extracts and photographs (both originals and copies) have been added, pasted on separate sheets of the same size, to illustrate many of the entries. A number of the additional entries, and additions to existing entries, appear to be...
Dates:
Late 19th century-?1956.
Biographical papers of members of the Elliot family of Minto., [?Circa 1858], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12851
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Draft biography of Charles James Fox by the 2nd Earl of Minto, ?circa 1858 (folio 1); (ii) Autobiographical notes by the 2nd Baron and Baroness Dunfermline, undated (folio 58).
Dates:
[?Circa 1858], undated.
Biographical papers relating to Jan Struther, containing notes, diaries and photocopies., 1920s-1930s, 1989.
File
Identifier: Acc.13220/48
Scope and Contents
Containing: Biographical notes about Jan Struther by her daughter Jan Strutheret
Rance, 1989, intended as guidance for an eventual biographer, and used by Ysenda Maxtone Graham in writing 'The real Mrs Miniver', 2001. Diaries of Anne Meriel Talbot, of Tite Street, Chelsea, born 1899 , died unmarried 1979. Extracts from the 51 diaries kept by Anne mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. Photocopies, and some typed copies, of the several hundred pages which contain remarks or information about the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1930s, 1989.
Biographies of Christian authors written by Joannes Petri de Delft, a copyist at Niewlicht., 1457-1469.
File
Identifier: MS.7140
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Contents list, written last, in a different hand from the rest of the volume (folio 1 verso), and cumulative index of names (folio 2) dated 1469. The first entry for each letter is introduced by an initial in blue or red, alternately.(ii) St Jerome, 'De Viris Illustribus' (folio 13); the text is almost the same as that printed in 'Patrologia Latina', volume xxiii, 602-720, with only a few minor differences of vocabulary and word order....
Dates:
1457-1469.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.
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Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh.
`Blazoning of the arms belonging to the gentlemen within the Kingdom of Scotland`., 1672-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Dates:
1672-1822.
Blue notebook containing various handwritten notes and writings of Marshall Anderson., 1991-1992.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 42(7)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates:
1991-1992.
Blue notepad, 'May-June 1991. Storytellers. An Tuireann opening, Dundee 800 and Uist's Art Association', containing handwritten notes and writings of Marshall Anderson., 1991.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 42(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Attic Archive evolved organically from the activities of Pete Horobin, beginning in 1978. When Horobin's association ended, the archive was continued in turn by Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and, lastly, aitch. Each change of custody coincided with the start of a new phase of activity, each phase undertaken, usually, over ten years.The papers of the Attic Archive are now dispersed through various cultural institutions, each having a particular association with the archive,...
Dates:
1991.
Book containing notes on some of the peers of Scotland and their families., ?1696-?1702.
Item
Identifier: MS.3153
Scope and Contents
From the dates that occur on pages 245 and 421 and intermediate pages, the greater part of the book seems to have been written between 1696 and 1701, but some additions must have been made at least as late as 1702 (see date on page 257).
Dates:
?1696-?1702.