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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 2208 Collections and/or Records:

Envelope to Pete Horobin, containing typed correspondence and photocopied clippings., 1982.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 44[C-0889-82]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Each letter has its original envelope, on the outside of which has been added a DATA project reference number.

Dates: 1982.

Envelope to Pete Horobin, containing typed correspondence and photocopied newspaper clippings., 1981.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 44[C-0441-81]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Each letter has its original envelope, on the outside of which has been added a DATA project reference number.

Dates: 1981.

Envelope to Pete Horobin, containing typed correspondence, magazine clipping and photographs., 1982.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 44[C-0878-82]
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Each letter has its original envelope, on the outside of which has been added a DATA project reference number.

Dates: 1982.

Essay on wolf folk-lore and traditions in the Highlands, with press cuttings., 1896-1906.

 Item
Identifier: MS.466
Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates: 1896-1906.

Estate and business correspondence and related papers., 1761-1931, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15106-15112
Scope and Contents

The papers include balance sheets and business correspondence of the various firms in which the Ellices held an interest and papers concerned with the purchase and development of the Ellices Highland estates.

Dates: 1761-1931, undated.

Estate and business correspondence and related papers., 1850-1859.

 File
Identifier: MS.15108
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers include balance sheets and business correspondence of the various firms in which the Ellices held an interest and papers concerned with the purchase and development of the Ellices Highland estates.

Dates: 1850-1859.

Estate and business correspondence and related papers., 1860-1869.

 File
Identifier: MS.15109
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers include balance sheets and business correspondence of the various firms in which the Ellices held an interest and papers concerned with the purchase and development of the Ellices Highland estates.

Dates: 1860-1869.

Estate books, being a number of partly printed bound volumes relating in various ways to the Ellices’ estates in Glengarry and Glenquoich., 1834-1921, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15152-15169
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and papers relating to politics, especially colonial matters, and to estate and family affairs. Both Edward Ellice and his son were influential Liberal Members of Parliament who owned substantial estates in Scotland, Canada, America and the West Indies.

Dates: 1834-1921, undated.

Excerpts from Minto Kirk Sessions records, 1703-1748, sent by the 4th Earl of Minto to the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot., [Circa 1885.]

 File
Identifier: MS.13325
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: [Circa 1885.]

Extracts, 18th century, of criminal decisions, 1661-1669, from the Books of Adjournal of the High Court of Justiciary., 30 June 1661-14 December 1669.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.5.5
Scope and Contents

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.185) includes the reference: (M.6.2).

Contains newspaper cuttings from 'The Scotsman', 1901.

Dates: 30 June 1661-14 December 1669.

Extracts copied from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness, and associated research papers., Undated, but probably ca. 1880-1925.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14317/21-31
Scope and Contents Papers concerning Morrison's research into the diary of the Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness (1696-1763). The whereabouts of this diary, which covered the years 1737-1763 in eight octavo volumes, are not currently known, although a number of extracts were copied from it. MacDonald's position as minister of Rob Donn's parish during the poet's lifetime makes his diary a valuable document that links to many references in Rob Donn's poetry.According to Morrison's account...
Dates: Undated, but probably ca. 1880-1925.

Family correspondence and documents of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1844-1954, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9347
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, 1896, of Herbert Grierson to Mary Ogston, his future wife. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letters, 1912, of Grierson to his wife describing a tour he made of the Burns country. (Folio 3.)(iii) Letters, 1942-1943, of Grierson to his daughter Flora, concerning family and personal matters; also two letters, 1942, of Molly Dickins to her sister Flora Grierson. (Folio 11).(iv) Letters, 1930-1936, undated, of Mary Grierson to...
Dates: 1844-1954, undated.

‘Family memoranda’, consisting of genealogical notes, tables and press cuttings of the Richards family, probably compiled by Anne Richards., 1887-1889.

 File
Identifier: MS.20396
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates: 1887-1889.

Family Papers of Lucinda Mackay, 1941-2022

 Series
Identifier: MSS.50828-50839
Scope and Contents

This series contains correspondence, ephemera, research notes, and personal photograph albums documenting Lucinda Mackay's family life, from birth to the present day. It also includes preparatory drafts and notes towards an as-yet-unpublished memoir entitled 'My Life as an Artist.'

Dates: 1941-2022

File box, with label '1 Arts 1990', containing material relating to the visual arts, named artists, cultural institutions and cultural events., 1988-1990.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 11
Scope and Contents

The box is covered in tartan, and the inner lid is lined with a map of Fort William and its surrounds, certain points of which have been annotated with dates.

Dates: 1988-1990.