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Passports.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Official documents issued by a government that certify the identity and citizenship of individuals and grant them permission to travel abroad; includes permits issued by foreign countries allowing goods to be transported or persons to travel within that country.

Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:

8th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1808-1875.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10971-10994
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1808-1875.

9th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1841-1863.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10998-11006
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1841-1863.

11th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1905-1959.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11026-11031
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Papers deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the MS. bound series.

Dates: 1905-1959.

35 letters, 1859-1860, of John MacKichan to his mother, in Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6933
Scope and Contents

On voyage to, and during residence in, Antioch.

With his passport, 1859, and a letter, 1844, of his great aunt to his mother from Bellagio, Lake Como.

Dates: 1844-1860.

Account-book, containing particulars of the expenditure of Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I), the Duke of Buckingham, and Sir Francis Cottington, on their visit to Spain, April-September 1623., 1623.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1879
Scope and Contents

The keeper of the accounts refers to 'my brother Richard Wyche'.

At the end of the volume are specimens of various kinds of warrant and passport.

A typed transcript has been placed with the manuscript.

Dates: 1623.

Blue leather passport case by W J Adams, Passport Agent, 59 Fleet Street, London, embossed, ‘Mr. William Paul. Passport’., 1840, 1863.

 File
Identifier: MS.5148
Scope and Contents

The passport case contains a blank notebook and two passports both for William Paul, banker, Dumbarton: that for 1863 (folio 1) has been tipped-in to the inside front cover of the passport case; that for 1840 (folio 2) is loosely inserted.

Dates: 1840, 1863.

Copies of emigration papers of Ernest Robb.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13121
Scope and Contents The collection consists of copies of Ernest Robb`s emigration papers, c. 1900-1972. The papers include a typescript diary of the journey from Plymouth to Australia, an immigration identity card, Ernest Robb`s Australian passport, a receipt of passage`s money, a passenger`s contract ticket as well as photographs of Ernest and his brothers Jock, emigrant to Western Australia, and Bob, emigrant to the USA.Ernest Robb was born in Castlehill cottage, Troqueer, Kirkudbrightshire,...
Dates: circa 1900-1972.

Correspondence and papers of James Skene., 1780-1837.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12092/40-86
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates: 1780-1837.

Correspondence and papers of Valda Grieve, wife of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., 1933-1989, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27221-27239
Scope and Contents

Valda Trevlyn was Christopher Murray Grieve's, "Hugh MacDiarmid's" second wife, whom he married in 1934.

Dates: 1933-1989, undated.

Correspondence chiefly of the Earls of Wigtown on local and estate affairs., 1619-1812.

 File
Identifier: MS.20772
Scope and Contents

Also included are a copy of a letter, 1606, of John Welch; a copy of a letter, 1711, on the Regalia of Scotland to the Abbot of Ratisbon; letters, 1715, to the Earl Marischal; a letter of, and passport signed by, President James Monroe, 1811; and 4 letters, undated, of Galhart Darguell to the 4th Lord Fleming as Warden of the West Marches.

Dates: 1619-1812.

Documents from the Elibank papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.7702-7708

Four black and white passport photographs of Gavin Maxwell., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10555/69
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: Undated.

French passport., 1855.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.10997

'Journal of a Tour to the Continent in Autumn, 1815, with Walter Scott, John Scott, Esqr., of Gala, and Alexr. Pringle, Younger of Whitebank', by Robert Bruce, Advocate, afterwards Sheriff of Argyll.

 Item
Identifier: MS.991
Scope and Contents

The journal runs from 28 July to 23 August. With it are a passport and letter (folio 23) of Robert Bruce, 1815, an article of the donor regarding the manuscript cut from ‘Chambers’s Journal’ (folio 25), and a letter of the donor, 1934, giving further information (folio 27).

Dates: 1815.

Journal of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay's 'Travels in Germany and The Imperial Hereditary States, During the Years 1795, 1796, 1797' Volume 2nd, Part 2nd, 1801.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13970/4
Scope and Contents

Journal of Charles Stuart's tour through Poland, East and West Galicia, Moravia, Bohemia, Upper Saxony and Lower Saxony. Places visited include Eperies, Woynice, Biellitz, Olmuth, Prague, Weinar and Goslar before returning to London via Hamburg. Charles Stuart's passports are pasted in at the back. For a Table of Distances travelled throughout the entire tour see inv.ff - i-viii.

Dates: 1801.

Journal of Dr William Brown, describing a continental tour he made in that year., 1862.

 File
Identifier: MS.10365
Scope and Contents

William Brown's passport and other related material are pasted in at the back of the volume.

Dates: 1862.

Journals, commonplace books and letters from the library at Newbattle Abbey., 17th century-1900.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5785-5801
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 17th century-1900.