Professional papers.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents amassed in the course of the execution of a vocation, career, or occupation, including correspondence, memos, official forms, etc.
Found in 479 Collections and/or Records:
Incoming dispatches from the British Foreign Office to Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, during his embassy to Paris., 2 January-30 June 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.6229
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of volumes containing copies of dispatches, both outgoing and incoming, for each year of Charles Stuart's embassy, with a gap of four years, from 1824-1828, when he was recalled to England. The volumes were paginated, which makes it apparent that in many there are items missing; a list of missing pages has been placed at the beginning of each volume.The main topics of the reports concern the principal political events of the day: in addition to details of internal French...
Dates:
2 January-30 June 1824.
Incoming dispatches from the British Foreign Office to Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, during his embassy to Paris., 2 July-2 November 1824.
File
Identifier: MS.6230
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of volumes containing copies of dispatches, both outgoing and incoming, for each year of Charles Stuart's embassy, with a gap of four years, from 1824-1828, when he was recalled to England. The volumes were paginated, which makes it apparent that in many there are items missing; a list of missing pages has been placed at the beginning of each volume.The main topics of the reports concern the principal political events of the day: in addition to details of internal French...
Dates:
2 July-2 November 1824.
Incoming dispatches from the British Foreign Office to Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, during his embassy to Paris., 12 July-30 September 1828.
File
Identifier: MS.6233
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of volumes containing copies of dispatches, both outgoing and incoming, for each year of Charles Stuart's embassy, with a gap of four years, from 1824-1828, when he was recalled to England. The volumes were paginated, which makes it apparent that in many there are items missing; a list of missing pages has been placed at the beginning of each volume.The main topics of the reports concern the principal political events of the day: in addition to details of internal French...
Dates:
12 July-30 September 1828.
Incoming dispatches from the British Foreign Office to Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, during his embassy to Paris., 2 October-31 December 1828.
File
Identifier: MS.6234
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A series of volumes containing copies of dispatches, both outgoing and incoming, for each year of Charles Stuart's embassy, with a gap of four years, from 1824-1828, when he was recalled to England. The volumes were paginated, which makes it apparent that in many there are items missing; a list of missing pages has been placed at the beginning of each volume.The main topics of the reports concern the principal political events of the day: in addition to details of internal French...
Dates:
2 October-31 December 1828.
Journals, notebooks and other papers of Sir James Mann Wordie, polar explorer, mostly relating to his tours and expeditions.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12559/1-99
Scope and Contents
Journals, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, press-cuttings and related papers, 1903-1959, n.d., of and relating largely to the expeditions of polar exploration and scientific discovery, travel and mountaineering activities of Sir James Mann Wordie, Master of St John’s College, Cambridge (1889-1962).
Dates:
1865-1959.
Legal case papers of Judge David A O Edward, QC, with related documents.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10046/1-70
Scope and Contents
Professional papers as counsel, 1979-89, of David A O Edward, QC, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, 1985-9, and from 1989 a Judge of the European Community Court of the First Instance.
Dates:
1956-1989.
Letters and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Tweeddale; and correspondence and papers of and concerning the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1620-1713, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7002-7043
Scope and Contents
MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...
Dates:
1620-1713, undated.
Letters and papers of the Earl of Rosebery concerning the disestablishment of the Church of Scotland and Sunday opening of museums., 1892-1895.
File
Identifier: MS.10148
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...
Dates:
1892-1895.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Political correspondence and papers of Archibald Philip Primrose (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman and author.
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Official correspondence of the Earl of Rosebery.
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Correspondence of the Earl of Rosebery on home affairs.
Literary and personal papers of Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts of published and unpublished books, articles, stories and poems, with associated correspondence and some genealogical material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6215 Box 1(a)-Box 9(d)
Dates:
circa 1931-1970, undated.
Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12135/1-1062
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates:
1937-2001, undated.
Literary correspondence and personal papers of Hubert Peter Morrison, with some related correspondence and editorial papers of Thomas Nelson and Sons, publishers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6932 Box 1(1)-Box 5(7)
Dates:
1906-1971, undated.
Literary papers of Don Paterson, including notebooks, manuscripts and typescript drafts of poetry, prose and drama.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12689/1-76
Scope and Contents
Don Paterson's literary papers consist mainly of notebooks and poetry files in which his meticulous planning, working and reworking of the poems is evident. The notebooks are rarely only poetry and frequently contain doodles, bars of music and set lists relating to Lammas, 'mind-maps', packing lists and other such memory-aids, and lengthy notes often relating to his teaching activities.
Dates:
1970, 1980-2006.
Literary papers of Maureen McIlwraith, known as Mollie Hunter, including upublished novels, correspondence and audio-visual recordings.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12792/1-41
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1933, circa 1960-2002, undated.
Literary papers of Muriel Spark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11621/1-217
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, short stories and a novel, "Reality and Dreams".
Dates:
Circa 1956-1997.
Literary papers of Stuart MacGregor.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9392/1-40
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, plays, poems and short stories, with some correspondence and other writings.
Dates:
1963-1975.
Literary works and other papers of Elspeth Davie.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10631/1-40
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.
Dates:
1871-1992.
Loose-leaf manuscript notes and memos., 1996-1997.
File
Identifier: Acc.11621/207
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.
Dates:
1996-1997.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of plays and short stories of William McArthur.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7471/1-78
Dates:
1948-1954, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of novels and other works of Mary Stewart, with related papers
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9565/1-87
Dates:
1950-1982.
Memoranda and other papers, chiefly of Alexander Walker., 1801-1805.
File
Identifier: MS.13653
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes:(i) Report, 20 June 1805, by Alexander Walker on the employment of regiments of black soldiers in India (folio 1);(ii) Memorandum, 5 September 1801, from Walker to Colonel Arthur Wellesley on the system of government required in Malabar (folio 21);(iii) Memorandum, 27 October 1804, on the demands to be made upon the Bombay military establishment (folio 26);(iv) "Summary of the Governor of Bombay's proceedings in...
Dates:
1801-1805.
Microfilm of Industrial Revolution: a documentary history. Series 2. Papers of John Rennie, Thomas Telford and related figures. Part 2., 1769-1907.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1418-1437
Microfilm of memoranda and other papers, chiefly of Alexander Walker., 1801-1805.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2033
Microfilm of official papers of Sir Robert Liston concerning the mission to Bavaria and Ratisbon.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1348
Dates:
1774-1776.
Microfilm of papers chiefly of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2033-2037
Dates:
1797-[circa 1825].